I'm gonna get lucid before end of Jan. Hold me to it ppl! |
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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. |
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I'm gonna get lucid before end of Jan. Hold me to it ppl! |
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fogelbise, I'm interested in learning a bit more on SSILD. |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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!" |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Didn't mek the Jan deadline but had fairly low level DILD last night. |
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Congrats on the DILD!!...and great to see you around. Better late than never on the deadline. |
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