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Recognized I was dreaming but I forgot to stabilize so I lost lucidity but still dreamed.

Your DILDs are more interesting than your WILDS because you are letting your mind work its magic instead of trying to micromanage everything. Met Naomi again. It was awesome but I now seek to have a full conversation with her.

So. This morning I had another lucid dream. I was in my backyard attempting to control the sky. Got a moon crescent to come out.

At this time, I now have a method to reliably induce lucid dreams almost at will. After freaking 7 years of hard effort and doubt, I am ready to move on to the next phase of mastering lucid dreaming: Dream Control & Stabilization. Each and every time I have induced a lucid dream, I lose lucidity about 30 seconds into the dream; maybe even less.

Had another lucid dream this morning using the Here & Now technique. I actually got to the sleep paralysis stage. It was scary only because I was expecting some loud noises or demonic crap to happen based off of other user stories. None of that happened. Here's the thing, I couldn't move my body but I could open my eyes. I opened them, expecting a lucid dream, but my body reanimated and I wasn't fully asleep yet - just in a void.

I tried again and managed to pass the paralysis, the void, and eventually was able to move around in the lucid dream. It was probably 30 seconds of me walking around in the rain outside my house.

I managed to fly, though .

I think I had two lucid dreams these past two days. I am not really excited about them because they have been like 15 seconds each roughly. Also, I seem to either lose lucidity or wake up and fail to re-induce a lucid dream. Need to work on stability.

So I don't even need to Meditate for 20 or 30 minutes before going back to sleep. I just need to lie in bed with a quiet, in-the-moment, awareness of the world around me; in other words, "Here & Now."

This is because when I fall asleep, my mind attempts to put me under hypnosis or I guess hypnagogic imagery hence all noise of random thoughts. By being acutely aware and in the moment, I am forced to quiet my mind and fight off the hypnosis thus enabling me to immediately enter a lucid dream.

I always start in my room.

Here & Now worked again. The only hard part is calming down my mind to the point of stillness and awareness in the moment. Then, it is being patient with the pain of doing nothing, thinking nothing; not even about what I want to do in the lucid dream. Eventually, I feel the transition and know I am dream when I can freely move around as if I am on a rotisserie. The next hard part is then attempting to get visuals going which takes a bit of finesse and in-dream-visualization. I can feel my way around my room, however.


The next challenge is stabilizing the dream world because in all three attempts I have woken up, and immediately been pulled back into a non-lucid dream because I did not reset my mind into a quiet, clear, calm, present awareness. It honestly takes patience and discipline.

Did the same technique as I did yesterday, and had a WILD. Funny thing about WILD is that I never feel the sleep paralysis vibrations everyone talks about. I just feel the transition and instantly know I am dreaming. In the past I could never get my eyes open. This time it took a little finesse to get visuals. I could however, move around my room and feel my way around.

Tried to find dream character. Lucid dream ended and I woke up. I went back to dreaming without doing the proper anchor and I lost lucidity. The dreams were vivid, though.

Had a lucid dream this morning. Did a mindfulness meditation before hand to keep me present. I do think the trick to lucid dreaming is keeping me outside my head and into the present moment.

Had a lucid dream this morning. It was DILD but I lost lucidity somewhere down the line in the dream. Stabilization is a challenge that needs to be worked on but I am glad lucid dreams are happening frequently.

Just started HowToLucid.com 30-day bootcamp. Not shilling or anything, I just have been looking for a structured program to develop lucid-inducing habits. Success is a process, not an event.

Achieved a lucid dream via SSILD and an internal mantra of "I will have a lucid dream". Ended finding the dream character I was looking for in the description that I imagined/expected and hugged her tight. Didn't have the joy of completion that I would have liked but better than another failure.

After that, I don't remember what else that happened in the dream. On a side note, finding things to do in a dream is a bit difficult because there are so many things to do yet I only get one delicate opportunity every 24 hours to try and achieve that goal.

SSILD + Setting intention got me a DILD. Nothing much else to say. Realized I was dreaming after urination for a bit too long.

Experiment with mindfulness...coming soon.

Had a dry-spell and broke it suddenly by doing SSILD + Mantra. So I began seeing through my eyelids and knew instantly I was entering a lucid dream. However, during the transition I attempted to get out of bed and I felt that I was not 'deep' enough into the dream so kept doing SSILD cycles throughout the transition.

I lost lucidity and fell asleep.

Oh well. At least my dry spell was broken, almost.

Felt the transition but tried to visualize my bed room so I get the WILD going but no dice. I wasn't firm in my awareness. It is probably just me, but SSILD is getting tedious. My problem is that I like to retreat into the buzz of thoughts inside my head to fall asleep quick but this also distracts me from doing the cycles. When I fight the thoughts to clear my mind, it keep me awake and I lose sleep. Very demotivating for lucid dreaming.