Thread: My Technique keeps working

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.

It keeps working for me too!

Familiar tactile senstaions are the easiest way for me to enter a lucid dream during both brief midnight awakenings and full on WILDs.

I will try the 6-9 hour 'magic' time. Timing is normally where I end up ruining it for myself.

You have to sleep 6 hours and then go back to bad? oO; I think I'll just sleep till I'm not tired anymore. How should that work?

Originally Posted by exileblue

You have to sleep 6 hours and then go back to bad? oO; I think I'll just sleep till I'm not tired anymore. How should that work?

basically what you're looking for is the brief awakenings after 6 hours of sleep. Its hard to tell when 6 hours has passed while sleeping. So the easiest way is to set your alarm for 6 hours later, when it awakens you turn it off and go back to sleep.

Now you know that 6hours has passed, and the next time you have a brief awakening you can apply the visualization i mentioned.

Ah ok, so it's better to use this technique if I now that I can stay in bed as long as I want. I wanted to try it today, but have to wake up for school, but maybe I have some luck...

I'll try this. I tried the "backyard" method before, but never during a brief awakening.

I'll post results.

I'm a novice when it comes to lucid dreaming - I've had several but always they've happened spontaneously. But you mentioning that tactile sensations are important makes sense to me. My last LD happened when I dreamt I could 'feel' the rug I was sitting on (in the dream) - and bam! I was lucid! So maybe I'll try your method, see what happens

I'm glad I read this post...thinking back on the WILD I had recently, my successful entry into the dream pretty much followed this technique exactly, especially in regards to the emphasis on tactile sensation.

I've studied and practiced various techniques of visualization off and on for years, but have primarily focused on the visual aspect. I am learning (the hard way, through experience) that the tactile sensations are just as if not more important.

Also, the part you wrote "Its like you get sucked into the dream." is EXACTLY what it felt like when I transitioned from waking to sleep in my WILD. It was crazy, and has definitely increased my confidence and motivation to master this technique.

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.

Nice! I also agree with you...I HATE! REALITY. It does nothing but create misery....

IMJ

Is it very likely that you'll have a brief awakening after sleeping six hours? I've woken up around that time before, but I don't remember waking up after that excect when I wake up at my normal time to go to work or whatever. Is this because I'm really not waking up or I'm just not remembering it?

Would it work the same if I just tried the supine and visualizations right after I wake up from the six hours of sleep? Has anybody tried it that way?

I'm thinking this would work better if you went around your backyard touching things in the evening before you go to sleep so that you have fresh memories of the tactile sensations (as well as making it a routine that might surface during your dreams).

Now a question though: I usually wake up after only 5 hours of sleep and have to take a bathroom break before going back to bed, otherwise I can't sleep comfortably for the remainder of the night. Would this inhibit the effectiveness of the procedure do you think? (ie: can you try it out and see if there's a marked differance?)

Well I was fortunate to wake up exactly six hours after falling asleep (with no alarm clock). As I went back to sleep I tried to incorporate tactile sensations into a visualization but I quickly lost focus and fell into normal dreaming sleep.



I am convinced though that tactile imaging has been the missing ingredient in my visualization exercises, so I will keep trying.

I think i'll try that on this weekend. I'll let you know how it works out. =)

No luck last night. I actually tried it 3 different times and I just fell asleep.

Ill try again tonight.

last night after i did this technique ( i didnt think i was at the time, but i was). I had a WBTB after a short not vivid one and pictured walking through my backyard and it looked real and i wasnt paying attention and then i was like "OMG" this is so vivid, i must be dreaming and then i was in a dream.

Wait.

So if i go to sleep at 10 am i should set my alarm at 4. wake up at 4am then set me alarm for 5??

if you go to bed at 10pm you should set your alarm for 5am because it should take you 60 minutes to fall asleep. So you'll be asleep from 11pm - 4am which is 6 hours.

When the alarm wakes you up at 5am turn it off and go back to sleep. The next time you have a brief awakening you can apply the visualization i mentioned earlier.

Yes I know that but i was wondering if you go to sleep again at 5 do you set your alarm for one more hour and that is the brief awakening or does your body wake you up

This seems like a great idea, especially because I seem to have a hard time not getting my mind all full of excess thoughts while trying to wild. WILL TRY TONIGHT!!! CANT WAIT!

ahh I keep wanting to try this but I always forget! I'm going to try to do this tonight. It sounds like a pretty good idea... if only I could bring myself to remember it

Yay I'm going to do this tonight, last night i was too excited and focused when doing this, I naturally did this before finding out here, now I will act naturally but it's not really different, I will try to limit my excitement and try it again, thanks for confirming this though.

I got it to work this morning. I just thought about my backyard and before I could "touch" anything I fell into the vibrations. Nice work dude.

Originally Posted by Menthol

I got it to work this morning. I just thought about my backyard and before I could "touch" anything I fell into the vibrations. Nice work dude.

congratulations Menthol.

I may have unlocked some key to Lucid Dreams. Its been working for me very consistently

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.

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.