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Somebody in the thead said something that is really helpful to understand the meaning of "believing". He said that there are 2 types of believing. The first would be the mind believing. For example if you hear a theorie and you think it's right then you believe in it. You know that it is true but you have no emotions or anything tied to it. The other one (and the most important) is the believing from the heart. If you believe in something and you have strong emotions tied to it, then you believe in it with all your heart. Only the last one is REAL believing. An example would be the believe in god. If you are religious and someone says there is no god you would give probably anything to show that there is a god. Only if you really trust it from your heart, and would give anything for it then it is real believe.
If you can manage to tie strong emotions to your ld believe, only then this technique will work. It won't work if you just believe in it like a theorie!

But getting this emotions is the hard part

yea a few times i genuinly belived i would and it didnt work. but this morining i got stressed out in a dream and woke myself up... wish i got lucid instead.

Almost had another ld last night but in the dream I had a FA and was like, dammit I was almost having a ld
@ siuol you shouldn't have any doubt. It helps if you enthusiastic say to yourself some times over the day "Hah, I'll have another great ld tonight and nothings gonna stop me! "
Basically this technique is just a mild but instead of saying it at night, you make it to a all day affirmation.

tried it and it didnt work. tried a few times with sincere belief, but there coulda been a little doubt. maybe ill try meditation and try things like having a conversation in my head to affirm it better by saying it.

Haha siuol you must be really tired
Yesterday I read a thread about the possible key for lucidity (I think you may have already seen it) and watched all the 4 videos about how to double our brains performance. I then said to myself (and I really believed in it) that I will have a dild (watch the videos and you see what I mean) and it worked!
I'm going to do this again for tonight
The hardest thing is really having no doubts in it because any doubt ruins the whole thing.

working on my dryspell, but ive been really tired and crows wake me up in the morning if i take too long getting back too bed. oh and i almost did a wild in west civ class... i was fighting it but that mans voice made it physically impossible to stay awake, and i actually thought his voice was an alarm clock, sat up and turned it off, before realizing i was in the middle of a lecture a split second later and forcing myself up

Having a dryspell atm but I swore myself that from tomorrow on I will try harder. Lately I'm just like "Uh yeah I need to be aware and so...." and when I go to bed I just meditate for 5 minutes and then give up because I'm lazy. And then I get angry because I had no ld again..... Somethings not right there is it? ;D
Beginning tomorrow I will concentrate harder on achieving lucidity by not playing computer that much but instead maybe meditate and do more sports so I'm concentrated and exhausted. When I go to bed I'll try anything to get a wild going!
All the time when somebody asked me if I had a ld I said I couldn't concentrate because of my exams but the truth is I did nothing and watched tv all the time (To accept your own fault is one step towards success )
If you want you can join me because I don't accept my lazyness anymore. After all lucidity is a unique skill and it can't be allowed not to try hard to get good at it!

congratulations to you both
I had no luck but since school is starting I'm more concentrated on my awareness technique and I think it'll be better from now on

^ same. i was awake and asleep on and off since so many noises from my family, lawnmovers, and fire alarms, so i forgot the order of my dreams, so i dont know if it was a DILD or MILD or just wbtb. i told myself i would become lucid for about 30secs, and went to bed, then i may have had a short dream, which led into one where i suddenly felt that i should check if this were a dream or not. it was odd since it was the 1st Dild type thing where i had doubts on if i was dreaming or not when i looked at my hands, and i only had a fuzzy dim thought in my mind that i wasnt really at my grandparents house. when i realized it was a dream, i got excited, tried to remain calm, and to try to start a lucid without too much dc interference i told my nana i was happy to have been over but had to go. when i walked to the door the dream ended. i dont know if i checked because of my short affirmations, which would make it a WILD, or if since it was with the 2nd dream maybe a DILD, or if it was just from waking so much, which would be a DILD from regular wbtb. sometimes it gets annoying not knowing what type of dream it was.

edit: im glad i was lucid, despite it being a few seconds. if this is just a DILD, my lucid dream dryspell is a few weeks, for a normal DILD, my dryspell is a few months, and thats how i used to get all of my lucids. and if it was a MILD, its my first one, so either way its an achievement.

I had a lucid last night .

It wasn't intentional it just kinda happened (DILD). It was just one of those 10 second lucids.

my dryspells are long and frequent. my record is 2 in one week, which was the last time i got out of the dryspell for a short time. the thing that pisses me off is that i got lucid in my 1st week trying, so now im either doing something wrong or i just got lucky before... however i think that sleeping from 12-6 on school nights isnt helping at all either so...

hmm... lately it's getting really silent here. I've noticed that we all here have dryspells at almost the same time and also ld-periods. Maybe there is a special time during a month in which we have more chance to get lucid? Or maybe this is all just coincidence
Anyways, haven't had much luck with wild and during my holidays I'm just too lazy to keep my awareness up :/
Maybe when school starts next week I'll be able to boost my dilds

ive read it before too ill try it on the weekend.

I tried kingyoshi's wild tutorial last night and I think I made some progress. In this tech you should change position every 7 minutes or so and after a couple of changes you should get into sp really fast. I did this about 3 times and then I was almost asleep but I could remember to change position and when I did this I immediately got to the point where I was the night before. Again I got a huge adrenaline rush from the loud noise I suddenly heard and I think I was close to wild (I was in the same very sleepy mindset that I'm in when I Wilded before). Gonna try this again tonight but this time I try not to fall asleep by force but let it come naturally so I don't get that adrenaline rush and wake me up again.

lol that sounds cool. last night i woke up in between falling asleep and waking, maybe the hypnagogic stage idk. but it was really cool, because i saw all of my stuff start to float into the air, before the hallucination faded. and also, you know how your super comfy in the morning when you have to wake up and you just want to stay under your warm covers? i felt like that... but better.

Well siuol when I do mild I wake up at night, and then say a mantra like "I will notice when I'm dreaming when I fall asleep" over and over again while visualizing me getting lucid in a dream.
This often works for me but I started Wild again for this week. Also last night I experienced something strange. I woke up at night and was still very close to falling asleep so I tried falling asleep by will. Every time I did this I got an huge adrenaline rush and it felt so weird. Like the strongest goosebumps I ever experienced. I did this every 20 secs and everytime I heard a strange noise in my ear. Well after a while I stopped doing this because it was pretty nonsense

Has ant one been to yahoo answers and read any of the dream interpretation questions? If you read them, mist of them are extremely stupid like, "This dog and guy were stalking me. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!?"

so for mild i just wake up, remember my last dream, and go back to sleep visualizing myself in that dream noticing a dreamsign and becoming lucid?

also im trying this thing for frequent DEILD/FILD, you know how if you need to get up in a minute if you turned your alarm clock off but still need to catch a bus or something? well i wake up from an alarm (my self turn off alarms dont wake me at all...), and when i wake up 5 mins later i can remember not to move at all. thats if i dont wake up naturally in the night anyway. i think im going to go on a 2 day rotation type thing, alternating between this and MILD

Nothing much happened for me for the last days. I just had a normal dream where I used all my lucid skills and learned new ones (I can shoot grapple hooks out of my hands xD) without noticing I was dreaming

@ siuol

MILD

Its really easy and it works really good.