ImJB's LDing workbook

**fogelbise** · 01-16-2014 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by imJB

The one exception is my childhood home. How do you suggest I foster this as a dream sign?

I would use visualization during the day perhaps right after your 'awareness bombs' to imagine seeing your childhood home and then realizing "this is all a dream" and 'practice' what you would do next: stabilization, recalling goals, reminding yourself that you are dreaming and reflect on the awareness of your true condition - that your actually back in bed somewhere and indeed this is all just a dream. That last point should counteract the possibility that the previous steps could just create a dream about lucid dreaming and bring more of you into your LD. I have seen it suggested that you need a balance between focusing on the yourself and focusing on the dream world for stability and I think that this is true. When realizing that you are really back in bed, you must also be careful not to put too much focus on your sleeping body because again you want that balance to allow focus on the dream world as well.

I still also see many chances in my dream where, in the dream, I think wow that's cool or weird (like an interesting sky for example) and just don't RC. Even after my WILD the other night, in a subsequent dream that night I told a dream character about my successful WILD and didn't get lucid!

This is where our self awareness work comes in which can be combined with RCs, RRC, mantras and WBTB to help it along. Let me know if you have any questions.

**imJB** · 01-21-2014 11:31 AM

I'm gonna get lucid before end of Jan. Hold me to it ppl!

**fogelbise** · 01-22-2014 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by imJB

I'm gonna get lucid before end of Jan. Hold me to it ppl!

You are officially expected to have at least one lucid before then end of the month.

Seriously though, you can do it! Put additional effort into the day work and throw in some WBTBs.

**imJB** · 01-25-2014 02:18 AM

fogelbise, I'm interested in learning a bit more on SSILD.
Can you please elaborate how you use it for me?

**fogelbise** · 01-26-2014 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by imJB

fogelbise, I'm interested in learning a bit more on SSILD.
Can you please elaborate how you use it for me?

My variation on SSILD is related to the cycles. I "warm-up" by doing two breaths focusing on the backs of my eyelids, two breaths focusing on hearing and then two breaths focusing a tactile feeling (I use the pressure that I can feel in my sternum area when laying on my back). This "warm-up" reminds me of how to focus on each of the 3 senses that make up SSILD and takes however long it takes to take 6 total breaths unless I start over due to feeling too sleepy to get the three points of focus correct. Then I combine the 3 senses into each breath. I focus on vision as I start to breathe in. I focus on hearing as I am at the transition from breathing in to breathing out. I focus on feeling as I am breathing out. When I am trying to DILD I will do this for 2-3 minutes and then attempt to fall asleep. Not being able to fall asleep on occasion is when I started experimenting with WILDs, sometimes with my sole intention being just to get to sleep but then when noticing the HH's I would remember various things I read about WILDing and experiment with them. Sometimes I would just fall asleep and often have a DILD, but more and more I was starting to succeed at WILDs.

**imJB** · 01-27-2014 09:14 AM

And you find doing this before sleep (I'm assuming you're talking about when you first go to sleep) increases the frequency of your DILDs?

**fogelbise** · 01-28-2014 02:12 AM

Originally Posted by imJB

And you find doing this before sleep (I'm assuming you're talking about when you first go to sleep) increases the frequency of your DILDs?

Good point of clarification.

I only do this after at least 3 hours of sleep, usually 4.5 hours or more. Pre-bed I just plan what I want to do later that night and then maybe do some quick mantras and sometimes a quick RRC (mostly done throughout the day). The author of SSILD says doing it when going to bed is not productive.

**FryingMan** · 01-28-2014 02:40 AM

Sometimes when I really really think it's time for a LD again, I "whip" my SC with intention: "OK, now it is TIME FOR A LUCID DREAM. LET'S GET WITH THE PROGRAM, SC! LET'S GO! CMON! LUCID TONIGHT!"

**imJB** · 02-06-2014 01:39 AM

Didn't mek the Jan deadline but had fairly low level DILD last night.
I'll be first to admit I've let a poor sleep schedule and heavy workload swamp my practise.

I had been entertaining thoughts that maybe I was letting it slip so last night is a good reminder of how your subconscious keeps keeping on even when you can't!

Don't remember what triggered it but found myself walking along a NYC street scape marvelling at how vivid and clear everything was. Funnily enough when I thought about doing a RC (looked at my hands) was when I woke up. More so because I think my mind wandered back to reality a bit too much rather than doing the RC as a means of staying the dream.