DEILD Tips

**Puffin** · 03-04-2010 03:00 PM

I've noticed a lot of people are having difficulties DEILDing, so I'm posting this. I had two last night and one a week ago using this method, so maybe it'll help you. It's pretty simple.

Besides not moving and staying relaxed after a dream, there's something else that can help:

When you're at the end of a dream, take a 'screenshot' of the last scene you see until you find yourself in bed. For instance, if the last thing you're doing is sitting on the floor of your room, petting your cat, remember that. Remember the feelings and the senses.

Next, when you're in bed, don't use inner dialogue. Try not to think, "I'm going to DEILD now", or the latter. You have to think about that 'last scene' fairly quickly, and include the senses; smell the room, feel the objects you were touching! I think this is what makes the brain think you're still asleep: that you are still in the dream, carrying out the same thing you were just doing. You should be thrusted back into a dream within 20 seconds. Sometimes it's a pretty electrifying experience; you can get SP vibrations and everything!

One of the two DEILDs I got last night was a FA, though, so make sure to do an RC. If nothing seems to happen, wait a minute before getting up.

**I_C_U** · 03-04-2010 03:35 PM

Thanks, Demera. Maybe this explains why I fail every time. I always worry when I'll reach SP and such stuff.

**Puffin** · 03-04-2010 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by I_C_U

Thanks, Demera. Maybe this explains why I fail every time. I always worry when I'll reach SP and such stuff.

Welcome. Hope it helps.

**I_C_U** · 03-04-2010 03:51 PM

Don't hope for it to happen. Just say it will happen, I know it will

**Puffin** · 03-04-2010 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by I_C_U

Don't hope for it to happen. Just say it will happen, I know it will

Okay.

If this works for enough people, DV should add it to the DEILD tutorial. It might make it easier for people.

**Robot_Butler** · 03-05-2010 11:20 PM

The only problem I have with DEILD, is it has the potential to kill my recall. There is a good chance I will fall back asleep, lose lucidity, and forget everything. I only really do it when I want a lucid dream marathon, or am not satisfied with the dreams I've had so far. If I don't care about forgetting the dream I've already had, I will go ahead and give it a shot.

**Puffin** · 03-05-2010 11:50 PM

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

The only problem I have with DEILD, is it has the potential to kill my recall. There is a good chance I will fall back asleep, lose lucidity, and forget everything. I only really do it when I want a lucid dream marathon, or am not satisfied with the dreams I've had so far. If I don't care about forgetting the dream I've already had, I will go ahead and give it a shot.

I agree. I can usually only recall the DEILD(s) I've had, and not the dreams before.

**beachgirl** · 03-06-2010 12:59 AM

i am often torn between deild and recall...
is it ever possible to do a deild after a couple of minutes? i seem to remember that happening once or twice, kind of wilding back in...

**Puffin** · 03-06-2010 01:02 AM

Originally Posted by beachgirl

i am often torn between deild and recall...
is it ever possible to do a deild after a couple of minutes? i seem to remember that happening once or twice, kind of wilding back in...

I think that's defined as a really, really short WBTB WILD. DEILD's when you don't move at all after waking from a dream.

**slash112** · 03-06-2010 01:12 AM

Originally Posted by Demara

Next, when you're in bed, don't use inner dialogue. Try not to think, "I'm going to DEILD now", or the latter.

Hmmm... That is actually what I do.

My first priority is making sure I will remain conscious. The place in which I appear in the dream comes second. In fact, I really don't care whether or not I continue in the same dream scene.

What I do is I repeatedly tell myself "I am dreaming, I am dreaming, I am dreaming..."
This means that this phrase is repeated in my mind till I am in the dream, and that phrase will still be repeating, and there we go, in a lucid dream.

That's just me though. Everyone is different I suppose.

Originally Posted by Demara

I think that's defined as a really, really short WBTB WILD. DEILD's when you don't move at all after waking from a dream.

Well... seeing as DEILD is a form of WILD, this doesn't really matter.
Especially seeing as DEILD is, more precisely, "a really, really short WBTB WILD".

It is hard to draw an exact line between WILD and DEILD.

**Smuds** · 03-07-2010 12:56 PM

After reading some stuff on DEILD I have a question. I know this is said in the tip that you think of the last scene of your dream you remember... But I'm wondering, can you have a DEILD by thinking of a completely new scene, or is is 100% necessary to think of your previous dreams?

**Puffin** · 03-08-2010 01:42 AM

Originally Posted by Smuds

After reading some stuff on DEILD I have a question. I know this is said in the tip that you think of the last scene of your dream you remember... But I'm wondering, can you have a DEILD by thinking of a completely new scene, or is is 100% necessary to think of your previous dreams?

I've tried this twice before, but it's pretty difficult from my experience. I have never accomplished that. IMO It'd be easier to just not take the chance, and change locations once inside the dream.

**Taromon777** · 03-15-2010 12:35 AM

I've just had an idea, would it be easier to DEILD if you imagined that you were still dreaming when you'd woken up? Pretend that it's a false awakening, and that you're in a lucid dream, and then try to change the dream scene like you would in an LD (without moving, of course).

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