Thread: My Technique keeps working

Originally Posted by mrToad

something else i wonder. what do you think about changing to the other side of the bed or sleeping on the couch when you wake up after six hours? would being in another place slightly heighten your mental activity? i've noticed sleeping somewhere new causes you to be less lazy.

and if you're hungry after the six hours i recommend some crackers before sleeping again. helps you sleep.

Ive never changed rooms or changed my positions so I cant say anything about that. However there where times when I woke up after 6 hours and I felt hungry and ahd to piss.

Its okay go piss or eat, but dont take to long.

Originally Posted by mrToad

felt something kinda intense when i attempted this. i chose to visualize fixing an iPod since i do this regularly. like i h8 reality said, something you're really familiar with. it was easy to remember the feeling of carefully working inside an iPod. this is different than his recommendation in that the visualization was like a macro-film, close-up screws and cables and small parts. dunno if that's the best choice but it was easier than thinking about something outside.

i have a question about the intense feeling. do you feel kinda hot when you begin to WILD? as your body slopes into sleep but your mind remains awake, do you feel at the edge of a force? hard to describe. anyway i felt like i got close but spaced out and dreampt of something else.

it seems true that your body awakes again naturally after an hour, i didnt know that. cool.

The feeling is hard to explain, its like all the sudden a rush come over you as your entering the dream. This is very important if you feel that your about to enter a dream don't just stand there, start running or start rubbing your hands together. Your literally at the edge of awake /asleep, so the key is to focus on your dream body.

I H8 Reality, I cannot thank you enough for developing this technique!! I tried it last night and it worked far better then anything I have tried before. It was increadably easy and fast to enter my LD, I had a dream guide for the first time (in the form of an African tribal shaman), and I flew for the first time in my LD. This is a great techniques and you should try to get it put in the Turtorials section (anlong with some cool -ILD ending of course!!! )

I have my first dream last night watching youtube after doing this method, I need to be aware though, usually I don't remeber my dream...

congratulations everyone, im able to lucid dream at will thanks to this technique and so will you if you keep practicing.

is anybody having any problems when u wake up after 6 hours, go back to sleep, then after you wake up the second time u can't get back to sleep?

I tried this last night and instead of entering a dream, i entered SP. What do you think may have caused this?
Thanks

Originally Posted by detail

I tried this last night and instead of entering a dream, i entered SP. What do you think may have caused this?
Thanks

you where really close to entering a Lucid Dream, instead you entered SP. It happens every now and then

Hello, hopefully your technique will give me my first LD after knowing of LDing for about three years and after hundreds of attempts of all kinds of techniques.

I follow the steps, but I don't reawaken after I go back to bed. Example: fall asleep at 12:30. alarm wakes me up at 6:30. Fall asleep. My other alarm wakes me up at 8:50--time to get up.

Do you use a lot of autosuggestion while falling asleep after the first alarm to get yourself to wake up again?

How long after the first alarm until you wake up again?

Does your technique require more than 9 hours of sleep or so to be available?

Originally Posted by eggbert

Hello, hopefully your technique will give me my first LD after knowing of LDing for about three years and after hundreds of attempts of all kinds of techniques.

I follow the steps, but I don't reawaken after I go back to bed. Example: fall asleep at 12:30. alarm wakes me up at 6:30. Fall asleep. My other alarm wakes me up at 8:50--time to get up.

Do you use a lot of autosuggestion while falling asleep after the first alarm to get yourself to wake up again?

How long after the first alarm until you wake up again?

Does your technique require more than 9 hours of sleep or so to be available?

I dont use autosuggestion. Usually I just noticed that I woke up. Also your next brief awakening after falling asleep is usually 1 hour later.

so if the alarm goes off at 6:30am your next brief awakening should be at 7:30.

And yes this technique requires 8-9 hours of sleep. But remember this technique utilizes a really important time for inducing Lucid Dreams, so its worth it.

Just to add some more discussion to the topic, this morning at around 8am with all of the light shining into my room and half draped across the girlfriend next to me (i.e distractions).

I just woke up, for some reason I was feeling a certain way which is hard to describe - very tired, half asleep and half awake, kind of like a brief awakening but a little different...anyway, I didnt wild properly but i got very close, saw everything around me just before the final jump but didnt quite make it. I did with with 3 different visions including the backyard one first and they all did the same thing.

Does anyone else kind of get a feeling where they know they can jump into a WILD as soon as they close their eyes? bar the advanced dreamers of course!

Originally Posted by I H8 Reality

This technique has worked consistently for the last couple of months and I'm finally going to reveal it.

1. You need to set your alarm clock so that you have at Least 6 hours of sleep.

2. When the alarm goes off just turn it off and go back to sleep.

3. The next time you have a brief awakening, lay in the supine position.

4. Relax, close your eyes, and start visualizing being in your backyard during daytime. Now start moving along the perimeter of your backyard and start touching things such as doors, garbage cans, walls,etc.

Tactile sensation IS VERY IMPORTANT when your visualizing. Without it, it will be very hard to enter a Lucid dream. I think the tactile sensation makes you forget about your real body and helps focus on your dream body.

5. Once you start walking around your backyard touching things as you go. You will know when you've entered the dream. Its like you get sucked into the dream.

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This may sound tedious, but it keeps working for me. Let me summarize again:

-minimum 6 hrs of sleep
-brief awakening
-Supine Position
-The Visualization (Tactile Sensations is Important!)


One things I've noticed consistently is that brief awakenings between 6 - 9 hours after falling asleep are very special. They're like a doorway to Lucidity. Before 6 hours it is very difficult to enter a dream , after 9 hours you'll be too awake during the brief awakening.

How long do I have to keep thinking about staying in the backyard for? Is it till I dream, or just for a few minutes while still awake. It will get very tedious otherwise.

Originally Posted by Joseph

How long do I have to keep thinking about staying in the backyard for? Is it till I dream, or just for a few minutes while still awake. It will get very tedious otherwise.

for me it takes less than a minute.

However if you feel really awake during the brief awakening it might not work, also if your really tired during the brief awakening than it might not work.

The key is to be a balance not to tired, but not too awake.

Whats the Supine Position? xDD

Now that's a pretty funny looking picture! The second guy looks like he's dead! Anyway, I found it interesting because whenever I sleep on my side I never know what to do with my arms. Hence the reason that I never sleep on my side. I mean, it's like what do you do with these things!? They keep getting in the way! Or you could practice these Lateral Recumbent techniques that make you look like your trying to choke yourself.

Just as a side note I noticed that if you feel really tired during your brief awakening your odds of getting into a Lucid Dream is really high.

Some people say that they feel too awake and cant fall asleep during the brief awakening. This happens to me every now and then, however relaxing and not worrying too much helps a lot.

If you put a pillow in front of your body, you can put your upper arm on top of it and your lower arm just extend downward in front of you and lay it on the bed, or tuck it up under your head pillow. That's how I sleep best. It's hard for me to sleep on my back, but I can do it if I'm really tired. I can't sleep on my stomach though, ever.

Originally Posted by unseen wombat

If you put a pillow in front of your body, you can put your upper arm on top of it and your lower arm just extend downward in front of you and lay it on the bed, or tuck it up under your head pillow. That's how I sleep best. It's hard for me to sleep on my back, but I can do it if I'm really tired. I can't sleep on my stomach though, ever.

Falling asleep on your back isnt an absolute rule that you have to follow. Its just something that ive noticed helps me fall asleep faster.

If you can fall asleep faster in another position by all means go for it.

..Wow this is chaining err i mean DEILD...... How do you have 5 stars for a thread thats already been said on here... Maybe because the title is irresistible?

I am a beginner lucid dreamer and this morning i woke up and went back to sleep, only i was imagining flying through the air. then suddenly i was "sucked" into the dream and i was lucid from the start! amazing!! but i found that i could only fly if i flapped both of my arms, which i shouldnt have to do if im dreaming

Originally Posted by kevinwhited

I am a beginner lucid dreamer and this morning i woke up and went back to sleep, only i was imagining flying through the air. then suddenly i was "sucked" into the dream and i was lucid from the start! amazing!! but i found that i could only fly if i flapped both of my arms, which i shouldnt have to do if im dreaming

Congratulations, keep trying and have enjoy your Lucid Dreams

Remember to keep in mind that everyone had an individual technique that works best, so don't just give up if a technique that is specified here isn't as effective as you would like.

Wow, this is amazing. This is the first technique that I've used where I have successfully achieved becoming lucid. This is awesome. I even managed to complete the lucid task.

Originally Posted by peppy

Wow, this is amazing. This is the first technique that I've used where I have successfully achieved becoming lucid. This is awesome. I even managed to complete the lucid task.

congratulations