Thread: My Technique keeps working

I've tried this for the past three or four nights and I just can't seem to get it! I'll wake up for my brief awakening after waking up from my six-hour alarm, but I'll be really tired. I'll say to myself, "OK, start visualizing your backyard..." but I don't make it very far before my mind wanders off I just fall right back asleep.

Does anybody have any tips or tricks to keep me focused? I don't want to wake up too much because doesn't that ruin the technique?

Originally Posted by kaeraz

I've tried this for the past three or four nights and I just can't seem to get it! I'll wake up for my brief awakening after waking up from my six-hour alarm, but I'll be really tired. I'll say to myself, "OK, start visualizing your backyard..." but I don't make it very far before my mind wanders off I just fall right back asleep.

Does anybody have any tips or tricks to keep me focused? I don't want to wake up too much because doesn't that ruin the technique?

you have to plan out what your gonna touch, for example right now you have to know what your gonna touch the next time you do the technique

hi,

i stay in apartment at third floor, so what's the best scene i should visualise?
should i visualised the main entrance to the apartment building where there is some flower and tree or anything inside mine house?

thanks

Ive had no recent luck with naturally getting lucid so I might try this the next few nights. My only problem with using the brief awakenings is that I usually forget to try the technique when I get them, and just go back to sleep. Any ideas people?

Autosuggestion doesnt seem to work too well for me!

Originally Posted by Swank

Ive had no recent luck with naturally getting lucid so I might try this the next few nights. My only problem with using the brief awakenings is that I usually forget to try the technique when I get them, and just go back to sleep. Any ideas people?

Autosuggestion doesnt seem to work too well for me!

I think we're in the same boat. I'm gonna try what westonci told me - plan out what you're going to touch before you go to bed. Also, I think I'm going to chant while I'm visualizing like "One, I'm dreaming..." etc. I think that will keep my mind focused so I don't just immediately drift off.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by kaeraz

I think we're in the same boat. I'm gonna try what westonci told me - plan out what you're going to touch before you go to bed. Also, I think I'm going to chant while I'm visualizing like "One, I'm dreaming..." etc. I think that will keep my mind focused so I don't just immediately drift off.

Good luck!

Yeah I might as well try a bit of that, I havnt really given the autosuggestion a good go yet

I wonder if its hard to be focusing on visualising and feeling the sensations of touch and smell etc while also counting up and reminding yourself youre dreaming! I'll try it more tonight, and let you know how I go. PM me if you have any success with this

Originally Posted by Swank

Yeah I might as well try a bit of that, I havnt really given the autosuggestion a good go yet

I wonder if its hard to be focusing on visualising and feeling the sensations of touch and smell etc while also counting up and reminding yourself youre dreaming! I'll try it more tonight, and let you know how I go. PM me if you have any success with this

I don't think they'll interfere with each other. It's just visualizing while keeping an inner dialogue.

I'll post results tomorrow. I'm also eating a couple gobs of peanut butter... >.> We'll see how that pans out.

I find it difficult to have a brief awakening. Does it work if you just wake up after 6 hours of sleep and then do the backyard visualisation like an ordinary WBTB? Why do you have to do it after a brief awakening?

Originally Posted by LittleBuddy

im gon hit this up.

do u always wake up the second time? im gonna try to WILD right after i turn my alarm off.

also, when u do this technique, do u feel the sensation of your body falling asleep or no?

i like this WILD in first awakening and then your tech after that. no use wasting some of that valuable REM cycle...unless you just want to sleep or have to get up early or something...LAME

The problem with all these techniques is, is that they one by one, explain what actions you need to take to get into a lucid dream. But the key to getting into a lucid dream is not your actions, but your thoughts. These techniques will only work when they lead to those thoughts you need to enter a lucid dream. But how about you just tell us what you are thinking? What thoughts did you follow to enter the dreamworld?

I think the entire reason this works is that you're first of all in a good point in your sleep cycle. That's necessary for any WILD technique. Secondly, and just as importantly, this keeps your mind aware and occupied and off of thoughts of your physical body.

I haven't got it to work yet, but I haven't had but one chance to actually try it as recommended.

Kaeli, maybe you should just try to sleep in a little longer so you're more awake. Remember he said 6 hours is the minimum threshhold. Really seven if you count the time he says it takes to fall asleep. (It doesn't usually take me that long. More like half that or less actually. Unless he's talking about how long it takes your body to fall asleep. All I know is that my mind is unconscious after less than a half hour).

I think this may be a DEILD, but you didn't really specificly say reather you move or not, in that case, this method works alot for me too. But neither DEILD or VILD (the new VILD) were created by you, but I know what you mean when you say your technique, basicly your own personal twist on it. Though I'm sure if you changed the way you'd do it, like try to ride a bike or roll, you'd get the same results.

Originally Posted by SpikeZx

Ok I went to bed thinking this is probably not gonna work like the other things I've tried, but I'll tell you this.. it's the first thing I've tried that's given me 4 lucids in a row

Thanks I H8 Reality

Originally Posted by westonci

I tried it last night and i had 3 LD's in a row

Dayam, ppl are getting lucid like hot cakes
Definably trying this tonight, will post results

Originally Posted by DreamQueen

I find it difficult to have a brief awakening. Does it work if you just wake up after 6 hours of sleep and then do the backyard visualisation like an ordinary WBTB? Why do you have to do it after a brief awakening?

I tried this last night after a fairly long dry spell of lucids. I woke up after 6 or so hours and just tried the visualisation then (so basically a WBTB) and it worked. It worked extremely well actually, as in the LD was very vivid and I remember all of it afterwards.

Good stuff, Ill keep experimenting

OK, so I tried this again last night after my brief awakening, but I couldn't stay focused on it - again! Instead, I ended up having a VILD, completely by accident. I started imagining being in Halo-world and suddenly I was and then I flew and stuff. It was fun, if unintentional.

I'm interested in this technique though so I'm going to keep trying. I'm going to try what you did, Swank, and just start visualizing as soon as I wake up rather than fall back asleep, etc. I'll probably try to get 7 hours instead of 6 like wombat suggested.

I'll post results tomorrow.

congratulations everyone, I personally think this technique is the most successful I have ever tried.

Keep trying everyone, and I know it will work for everyone

I havnt tried it yet but sounds really easy so ill give it a 2 weeks.

I've been trying this all week. I've had some success, but like I said before, my dream recall has suffered. I don't like having to make the split second decision to either remember the last dream I had or try for a Lucid dream. Too hard to make that decision when I'm all groggy and half asleep.

Am I doing something wrong? Anyone have any suggestions for this? I like both my lucid and non lucid dreams.

OMFG, I’m new here and glad I’ve found this place! I’ve been doing this for the past few weeks BUT I was stuck in a dark room in my dream but I was conscious, I was like wake me up wake me up, it was the same method described here, i go to school so whiles I wake up and everybody is getting ready for school (brief awakening) I start thinking about school and regular stuff then go back to sleep then I’m sucked into this black room, that what it was, I always wondered what it was! This is real and its not hard as you think, THANK YOU MAN! I’m going to do this again this time aware! I was even afraid to go to sleep because I always got sucked into a black empty room talking where nobody could hear me, When I have the brief waking I think deeply about life and the new day, planning school, art class, homework, etc. I go back to sleep and BOOM I was like “Here we go again”, so how do I visualize and start creating my dream?

* This was all before coming here, how to go on adventures and is it even a lucid dream *

This comment on Youtube simplifies what's happening to me, is this safe and normal....

This...is really going over the top.. 0_0
This happened to me a couple nights ago but i didnt even like it...i was falling down a pit which REALLY scared me and i couldn't move (i was paralysed in real life my eyelids wouldn't even budge) i know the paralysis thing is normal..but anyway i just focused, waited for the right time and BOOM i snapped out of my dream! Then it tried happening again, but i was still freaked out so i refused to let it happen!

Originally Posted by LucidDreamGod

No I mean when you regulerly lay down at night to go to sleep, what position are you used to falling asleep in?

I think you missed my question, so I'll just remind you again if you don't find.

Originally Posted by LucidDreamGod

I think you missed my question, so I'll just remind you again if you don't find.

Its always random, sometimes on by back, sometimes on my side, sometime on my belly.

But during the brief awakening I sleep on my back, I dont know why but that position gets you into the dream faster

it worked for me...sort of. I was picturing my yard and going around. I remember then actually seeing the HI of it. I saw my hose turny thing and I thought, "that does not look right." I guess as long as I touch it it will still work. So I was in the dream but not lucid and still trying to enter a dream. I don't know if it was a failed WILD where there was a break of consciousness so I didn't notice being in a dream. It could just be that I am really stupid and missed a successful WILD.

After my 2nd go at this i got lucid
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