DEILD- staying aware

whenever i try to DEILD i either wake up and stay perfectly still but am so groggy and close to sleep that i cant hold on to my consciousness and just drift back to sleep or wake up too much and am not able to immediately remember my last dream and as a result my half asleep mind keeps itself awake trying to remember just what it was i was dreaming about last. >_> in other words: FAILURE. :facepalm:
Its all about awareness! too much and i cant DEILD and too little and i cant either! this seems impossible. even if i succeed in not waking up too much then how do i wake up enough to remember to stay aware!? contradictionnnnn. :eek: Part of the problem is that even if i succeed and enter a dream the dreamscape is my ROOM. D:

Think about a place or setting you want to be

OR

Repeat in your head "I am dreaming"

does DEILDS normally work

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Originally Posted by Skydreamer707

whenever i try to DEILD i either wake up and stay perfectly still but am so groggy and close to sleep that i cant hold on to my consciousness and just drift back to sleep or wake up too much and am not able to immediately remember my last dream and as a result my half asleep mind keeps itself awake trying to remember just what it was i was dreaming about last. >_> in other words: FAILURE. :facepalm:
Its all about awareness! too much and i cant DEILD and too little and i cant either! this seems impossible. even if i succeed in not waking up too much then how do i wake up enough to remember to stay aware!? contradictionnnnn. :eek: Part of the problem is that even if i succeed and enter a dream the dreamscape is my ROOM. D:

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Hold on, after a lucid you should be aware enough and not move if you want too because, well in a lucid you were already aware. Unless your attempting this from a normal dream, which is much harder and needs more practice than after a lucid for exactly those reasons. Your groggy after a normal dream because your awareness hasn't spiked up yet, but in a lucid it's going full blast, so when you awake from a lucid you should know that you want to attempt a DEILD

I am attempting this from a NORMAL dream.... ive DEILDed from a normal dream before but the problem is staying awake :/

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Originally Posted by Skydreamer707

but the problem is staying awake :/

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What?

i mean aware/conscious/lucid. :panic:

Oh :lol: