Berryman13's DILD Tutorial

**berryman13** · 08-23-2008 07:42 PM

Hello and welcome to my DILD tutorial! (Dream Induced Lucid Dream)
Let me start off by saying that this is 100% my work, not copied from any sources. It may provide information similar to others, but that is purely coincidence.

So, you want to learn how to have DILD's? Well first off you're going to need a few things, the most important being a dream journal. Every day you wake up, whether it be 1:00 AM or 12:00 PM, you have to write down every detail of what you remember in your dreams, it may be just a feeling, it may be a whole epic story, no matter how short, how long, how unimportant it may seem, write it down.

The next thing you need is a sharpie or some other kind of marker that can stay on your skin for a whole day. What I want you to do is write down on the palm of your hand "Am I Dreaming?" I want you to write it neatly, or as neat as you can, and I want you to write it on a spot where it won't fade easily. (Putting any part of the phrase at the base of your fingers or some other part where you bend often each day will make it fade faster)

Next, i want you to chose a reality test, the first one is a MUST if you want to follow my lesson, and that is reading what you wrote down on your hand, turning away, then rereading it. The next one I want you to chose from this list:

*Plug your nose and try to breath in without sing your mouth.
Reliability: 5/5 Speed: 5/5 Discreetness: 4/5 Overall: 4.67

*Look at a digital watch, then look at it again, did anything change?
Reliability: 4/5 Speed: 4/5 Discreetness: 5/5 Overall:4.33

*Look at your hands, see if you can find anything strange such as an extra finger.
Reliability 4/5 Speed: 3/5 Discreetness: 5/5 Overall: 4

*Jump up, do you float down?
Reliability: 4.5/5 Speed: 4/5 Discreetness: 1/5 Overall: 3.16

*Try to fly. (Just try to visualize it)
Reliability 3/5 Speed: 4/5 Discreetness: 5/5 Overall: 4

Picked one? Good. You are now ready to start!

**berryman13** · 08-23-2008 07:42 PM

I want you to have at least 10 dreams in your dream journal, take a week, take as long as you need, but I recommend you do NOT start until you have at least 10 dreams recorded. Now I want you to slowly read all of them, and try to find what are called "Dreamsigns." What are dreamsigns? Good question. A dreamsign is something that occurs in many of your dreams, it may be an emotion, thought, action, person, whatever it is, it is something that occurs in many dreams. Some people don't have dreamsigns, that's ok, that's why I have the next section in this guide. If you found a dreamsign, great, if not, that's fine as well.

Now what I want you to do with that dreamign is (in waking life) to look for it. An example would be: If your dreamsign is a cat, then every time you see a cat do 2 reality checks, one being looking at your hand and reading what you wrote, then looking away and rereading it, and the next being which you chose on the list above. Don't just do the check and be done with it, I want you to actually ask yourself if you are dreaming, be serious about it, don't automatically assume you aren't dreaming, otherwise in a dream you will do the same.

**berryman13** · 08-23-2008 07:43 PM

For those of you who don't have dreamsigns, don't worry, there is much you can do. I still want you to have chosen another reality check. What I want you to do is, every time you see your hand in normal day-to-day life, I want you to perform the two reality checks. You may notice your hand when you raise it up to answer a question in school, you may notice it when you stretch, but when you notice that you have the marker on your hand, do the two reality checks. This may seem hard, but once you write it on your hand, then you can forget about it. You will realize that it's time to do a reality check when you see your hand, it's so simple.

**berryman13** · 08-23-2008 07:43 PM

Do these reality checks for a week, and if you don't get any lucid dreams in that week, I want you to start partnering this with a WBTB method. (Wake Back To Bed) To do this, I want you to wake up when you think you could be either going into or already in REM sleep. Usually 4-5 hours after you go to bed. If you go to sleep at midnight, wake up at around 4:30-4:45. You know what I mean. Set an alarm to wake you up at the specified time, and go to sleep. Once you wake up, get up RIGHT away, do not stay in bed, to not move around, just get up. I want you to live like it's the morning, read the paper, get coffee (DECAF! Do not take in sugar or caffeine!) and do whatever else it is you do in the morning, for about an hour and a half. Now, go back into bed, and for the next half hour, I want you to get your mind set on lucid dreaming, perform as many reality checks as you want, just get your mind ready to lucid dream. In the last 10 minutes, I want you to do some autosuggestion. Say to yourself, quietly, these phrases:
"Tonight I will have a lucid dream"
"I will fully remember my dreams and write them down when I wake up"
"Tonight I will have a lucid dream"

I want you to repeat that to yourself for 10 minutes, or at least until it is the only thing you can really think about, then, go to sleep.

What this technique does is interrupt your sleep cycle, you wake up before you start one of the longer REM-sleeps of the night. The reason is so you can focus your mind on lucid dreaming right before you start dreaming, giving you a little boost. This raises your chance to LD by around 40%, maybe more for some, maybe less.

Thank you for reading my first long guide! I enjoy criticism and praises! Happy (Lucid) Dreams!

**Suplux** · 08-24-2008 04:46 AM

Sounds pretty good, up until the point of waking up for 1 1/2 hours at night. Who wants to do that? That is not practical at all.

Other than that, pretty good guide.

**james-25:22pm** · 08-24-2008 06:31 AM

your signature says you've had ONE LD.

And you joined in June.

**reapsltd666** · 08-24-2008 08:10 AM

ya that's a pretty simple tutorial, easy to follaw great job. But ya like Suplux said, i don't know about the staying up for 1 1/2 hours, i usually just stay up for like 15 minutes, otherwise i wont be able to go back to sleep.

**Suplux** · 08-24-2008 01:03 PM

Yeah, because all that does is strongly interrupt your sleeping cycle as well as probably cause you to get much less sleep during the night which is not an option. And, when you only get 6 hours a night as it is, that isn't really a good thing.

That's why I prefer DEILD!