Tried SSILD 3 times last night, Had 3 dreams that were very intense and vivid.
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Tried SSILD 3 times last night, Had 3 dreams that were very intense and vivid.
Nice! SSILD is my favorite technique and has been quite a reliable inducer for me over these years.
From my about me page:
How I perform SSILD:
"My variation with the cycles is to do 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 but more and more I was starting to succeed at WILDs. I found that my SSILD variation helps my WILDs in two ways. The first is that it does seem to create a bit of a trance like state which seems to help keep my mind from getting too active with "the noise" as Sageous says. The other way I feel it helps is like a WILD anchor, it is something to keep my intention in place while helping to create the fine line between just enough consciousness needed to become lucid and not so much consciousness that you stay awake. When trying to WILD I will do more repetitions of the combined cycles in each breath than when trying to DILD, but I may stop for a while especially if HHs occur. I may go back and do the combined cycles a few more breaths depending on if it feels right or if nothing seems to be happening. A few times I gave up, rolled over and only then did I quickly start to transition into a dream."
If you want to see some of the back and forth clarification regarding this style of SSILD that I went through in a member's workbook you can find it by using control-f (find) with the search term "cycle" on the following page:
http://www.dreamviews.com/dild/14763...orkbook-3.html
That was a nice read! I'll be sure to give that way you do it a try. :smile:
Not much to Remember from last night but ill type what i remember.
Me and a group of people where in Prison ( I must of doing something bad in my dream lol) Although It didn't look like a prison, There were no cells of any kind. It was more of a feeling being locked up. Of course there were guards so we could not go outside. We tried to escape many times but the last escape attempt caught my eye. I'm outside and all I can see if mud, grass and dead trees. I was trying to run away as fast as I could but I weren't going anywhere, I was stuck on the spot. That's all i remember from the dream, but the last part stood out beyond everything else that happened. It felt good to experience "something" that would not happen in waking life.
I was just looking through the workbook and look at how long and detailed my dreams use to be and now I barely remember anything, Now i'm back to square one.
I need to start going to bed earlier, Been going to bed really late alot of the times, since I can't sleep at times, Most times im up till like 4am. So, Let's start from the beginning, Get my sleeping schedule back to a reasonable time. Intend to remember my dreams, but the only problem i have how can i write down my dreams without waking up Girlfriend next to me? That's the only problem. Once i find a way, We can continue from there.
You can work on what I like to do: keep a mental (no recording) list of dreams throughout the night: every waking, review the list of dreams up to then, and add the new ones to it. For each dream, "record" a few key words and mental images, go over the list a few times, then head back to sleep. Then in the morning, grab a voice recorder and quickly record the list, then later transcribe to DJ. Some detail for earlier dreams does tend to suffer but it's a good memory workout and when i was doing it a lot I got pretty good at it. Give it a try!
I had the most intense dream last night, I was cornered by a group of people who wants to fight me, so I was getting punched, kicked to the face, It was a scary experience, One feeling i remember was getting kicked in the face and my tooth, The sensation was so powerful, I'm not sure how to describe the feeling.
On the positive side of the dream, I've never had a dream where i've been hurt, but this has shown me how powerful dream can be, lucid or not.
EDIT: during the end of the dream There was this guy who i know in real life, we literally hate each other, but then this board popped up saying "being sentinal" I didn't know what it meant so i just went along with what it meant. Anyone know what this word means? It's making me curious at this stood out also
So it sounds like the dream is saying keep a watchful eye on your behavior and remain sentient - keep in mind the other guy has all the same feelings you do. If you indulge in hatefulness it may well result in fighting, and it's showing you how much that can hurt. Of course it causes a lot more than physical damage - it ruptures social relations and causes damage to your own inner nature. People who allow themselves to project hatred onto others do damage to themselves in the process as well as damaging all of their relationships.Quote:
"Sentinal - a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch."
"Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.[1] Eighteenth-century philosophers used the concept to distinguish the ability to think (reason) from the ability to feel (sentience). In modern Western philosophy, sentience is the ability to experience sensations (known in philosophy of mind as "qualia"). In Eastern philosophy, sentience is a metaphysical quality of all things that requires respect and care. The concept is central to the philosophy of animal rights and also the anti-abortion movement because sentience is necessary for the ability to suffer, and thus is held to confer certain rights."
Interesting. What Darkmatter said makes sense to me. If you could get boards to pop up all the time that would be a great dream sign, especially if they said "this is a dream" or similar.
I was also reminded how sometimes physical pains from waking life can generate dreams of the pain with a different explanation (like getting punched). I am curious if you've had any tooth, mouth or face pain IWL that might have influenced this dream of being punched and kicked in the face?
Oh man - just realized this is your workbook Habba - not sure if it's ok for me to just pop in and post here. If not I apologize.
There was a period in my life where something happened where it effected me so bad I was projecting negativity and i am still negative to this day, This has effected not just me. My friends, family, and other people. I am very doubtful, the thing that i did was wrong of me, I accept my wrong doings, but I can't forgive myself. I'm scared, but i don't exactly know what I am scared off.
Enough of that don't want to go deep into that stuff as this is my workbook lol, I don't mind you posting that, It was a nice read
Inducing dream signs can be tricky. I remember Sensei had a good thread or maybe even audio on incubation. Obsessively thinking about something can induce it, but I'm not recommending that. For me personally I am surprised at what day residue comes into my dreams sometimes. I wouldn't induce the tooth ache by letting it continue to hurt, but as long as you have it you might remind yourself as you fall asleep (and back to sleep after any awakenings) that you will RC any time I get hit in the face (hit with or by anything). I personally had the most success with dream signs when I was diligent about repeating what I was looking for when falling asleep. It's tough though. Are you still experimenting with SSILD. That is the most effective technique for me.
@Darkmatters other members will chime in on workbooks and it is usually welcome. Your input was definitely in the great spirit of helpfulness that we find on DV :)
Long time since I have posted in here.
I have been Practising Meditation twice a day between 5-15 minutes for a couple of weeks now. Along with practising ADA. It seems to be going all well. I've been getting more vivid and clear dreams, which is a good sign. Although my dream recall has not been the greatest lately. I don't want to wake my girlfriend up in the middle of the night to write down my dreams so I figured I am going to stick my Amazon tablet under my pillow so it's there for when I wake up.
Welcome back. Let me know if you have any questions and feel free to note your progress here so you can refer back to it later.
I’m back again. Sorry for dissapearing!
Been practising meditation a lot lately, it has gave me a great boost in my dream recall. I have been combining it with a little bit of ADA through out the day.
I remember a few snippets from last night, the most important one was that I decided to have a race with a dream character on who could become lucid the fastest. That’s all I remember.
The day practices consist of developing awareness, although ADA is quite challengeing then I WBTB of a night time and perform SSILD.
I don’t exactly follow same way ADA is suppose to be used. Sensing and feelings are my most dominant sense so my practice begins with becoming aware of how my chlothes feels, if I’m feeling hot or cold, how my feet feel when touching the floor. Aswell as being aware of my thoughts. The goal is to become aware of the most subtle things we tend to ignore, right?
The way I see it is that if you find out what your most dominant sense is, you can practice ADA more comfortabley. Practising ADA with all the senses seems very mentally challenging to me which is why I restricted it to one sense.
Not much recalled but it’s still great to remember snippets.
Ben came back from holiday with his dad and brother. He wanted to get better at fortnite and was asking to train for a couple of weeks. He had to give his brother the computer cable as he wanted it. He told me to go asleep for a bit then he would get in touch with me.
Was unable to meditate last due to to girlfriends loud snoring haha.
Just ordered a fitness wristband which monitors sleep and has a silent vibrate alarm so I can preform my WBTB more consistently without waking girlfriend up.
Hi Habba, for the snoring, some good quality earplugs can do wonders. I also use a sleep mask for keeping out light. I'd like to hear more about the wristband once you receive it and have tried it out.
I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes! It is due to arrive tommorow.
I managed to do some meditation last night. My mind kept wandering, but I kept trying to bring my focus back
to my breath, next thing I know I’m waking up in the middle of the night, haha.
I know I dreamt a few times last night, whenever I would wake up I would lie there trying to let the dream come to me, sadly enough I fell back asleep trying to do so haha, this happened a couple of times through out the night, perhaps I will sit up and recalls my dreams from now on.
Remember meeting and walking with Ellis and Owen and remember talking. Owen ended up being only one talking me while Ellis just ignored me fo some odd reason. Ever since Ellis grew up I have felt threatened by him. We walked down a street close to my secondary school. For some reason their is a problem, I cannot feel my middle finger, Ellis was helping me out and we went to the hospital. And I had an operation. I didn’t have my finger removed, but me and owen had swapped arms, It felt like someone has digged a whole into my body and screwed it on me. For some reason I could see a heart, this wasn’t my heart. I was scared as it didn’t seem like regular heart. Everything was such a Blair. The hospital was unknown, the he scene just kept changing. The dream about the swapping arms repeated its self 3 times. As time went on I was worried as my family didn’t know that I had an operation with someone else’s arm on me.
Their was some girl but didn’t know who she was but I have a sense of feeling that it was someones girlfriends, possible mine but my girlfriend irl is totally different. She was standing outside my nans house, I remember that she was kinda small.
I’m back in the hospital and see some dude I didn’t like so I quickly turned my head so he couldn’t notice me. The hospital looked rather small, there was about 30 chairs closed together without a few people sitting in them, I noticed the colour of the hospital is a very dark wooden brown.
I remember being with Lauren again and that she was annoyed because her mum wasn’t in and she wanted to go the chip shop. If recalled correctly we was in bed together but it wasn’t ours, it felt a lot smaller and the location wasn’t familiar.
At some point I was reading on facebook, it’s some code, I didn’t understand what it meant at all, until I read that someone commented that you had to be highly skilled to understand.
SSILD was performed when I woke up, I managed to go through the long cycles at least once. I felt like I was lost in my thoughts for a good 5 minutes before realising that I haven’t fell asleep yet. So I try to fall asleep again and manage to do so easily this time. No lucid but tonight I’m very happy with being able to remember some dreams!
Sorry if the dreams don’t make sense! I was really tired writing them down.
Update: got my fitness wristband yesterday. I have setup the alarm to go off through out the day so I do my reality checks. The goal is to also set multiple alarms throughout the night of my rem periods so when it vibrates on my wrist I will hopefully do a RC in my dream.
In my dreams last night I seen the most magical thing ever. It was so nice to remember. There was this mini red Chinese looking cathedral hovering over a lake, with an orange magic glow around it and it reflected into the water. It was very beautiful.
Dreams from last night.
Me and Ben are out together together and it’s a game of fortnite. I go ahead off him cause I have no materials so begin to farm some mats. I notice that there is a fish stick behind me so I rush a head un noticed and hit some cars to get some metal. The final circle is approaching and all I remember was heading into a bar, when I leave the bar I’m ID by the security guard? She was asking for my visa and I said i didn’t have one while at the same a dream character was taking my cash out of my pocket to give it to her. I notice they take more than intended but I tell her to keep it anyway.
I remembering being with my cousin John, we where walking down the street. I was holding a blue bag. While he went into the shop to get something, I’m unsure what it was. But then after he came out and met up with me he asked me to lend him some money, so I lent him the money.
Earlier on within this dream I remember I was with someone who I really dislike in real life, every time I see them in the dream we always have a fight. So, I’m near my old fathers house and I’m walking down, I see a bunch of people I really dislike, so I try and hide myself from them while they’re coming up the street, I manage to do this but I get recognised by that one person. So we have a fight, I always remembered from most of my dreams, I always have a hard time hitting this person so, my dreaming mind remembered that when ever I would try to throw a punch the majority of the time I would miss, I took a different approach this time and so I swung my foot backwards and kicked him in the nuts. It worked!
I don’t remember much that happened after that so let’s fast forward.
I remember I was back with my cousin John, I had bought some stuff for myself, a large desk, and a couple of other large things which I have forgot. This thing is, these items where laying on the ground outside. The scene changed and I see my enemy again, we have another fight, so this time I grabbed a piece of the item and used it as a weapon against him, I whipped his back so hard, it actually was awesome. That’s all I remember from that part.
Fast forwarding once again. This time it was some type of mystery. There was this guy who was being chased up different layers of stairs. It was outside, and looked like old, it was dark outside and he was being chased by people with guns, he was scaling the fences trying to escape, he was like a Ninja climbing up things so fast. The scene changed I was with dreams characters that I didn’t know, I had the feeling that this was that person family and they’re was worried because they couldn’t find him.
That’s all I can remember, sorry for lack of details in my dreams, I’m trying to work on it.
I’m trying to work on waking up and writing my dreams down, but sometimes I just fall back asleep haha.