Thread: what technique works best for you to have a lucid dream?

I know there are other threads like this, but I would like to make my own
I know everyone is different with what works for them, like when you go to REM
but I would just like to know, what you do to help you lucid dream
what time you go to bed, if you set alarms, what time are they, just things like that

I like DILD's because there's no sleep paralysis and they seem to be longer for me. Sometimes I'll wake up during the night, goto the bathroom, and fall asleep and accidentally do a WILD? Witch is weird because sometimes there no sleep paralysis. I don't do any vitamin B6 stuff or anything like that, I've heard that it can be dangerous and besides, I think its cheating. But here's what I like to do for the DILD technique.

I'll randomly do Reality Checks throughout the day. I've tried doing one every hour and it didn't work for me. Also I'll usually say things like "If I can put my hand through my other hand, then I'm dreaming.

Here's the Reality Checks that I do (in order)
1. I'll start off by asking myself where I am. "If I don't know then I'm dreaming, if I do then I'm not dreaming."
2. Then I'll ask myself how I got here. "If I can't remember how I got here, then I'm dreaming. If I can, then I'm not dreaming."
3. Then I'll start doing physical Reality Checks. Starting off with trying to change the number '9' on my hand "If it does change then I'm dreaming, if it doesn't then I'm not dreaming, if I try to do it and something other than a 9 is there then I'm dreaming."
4. Then I'll do the hand in hand trick "If I can put my hand through my other hand then I'm dreaming, if I can't then I'm not dreaming."
5. Then I'll look at my hands and see if anything is out of the ordinary with them. "If theirs anything weird about my hands then I'm dreaming, like if their on fire, or frozen, etc. If there not then I'm not dreaming."
6. And finally I'll plug my nose and try to breathe through my nose. "If I can breathe through my nose then I'm dreaming, if I can't then I'm not dreaming."

This is what works best for me.

thanks for the reply
and I like DILDs too, just because they are easy to do, but the thing I don't like is that they are mostly random, or kinda "foggy"when you remember them
I also do random reality checks during the day because, my favorite to do during a dream, is the plugging your nose one it's such a weird dream, I actually did it two nights ago in a DILD
and I don't take the vitamin supplements either, what happens when you "accidentally do a WILD"?

Originally Posted by erible

thanks for the reply
and I like DILDs too, just because they are easy to do, but the thing I don't like is that they are mostly random, or kinda "foggy"when you remember them
I also do random reality checks during the day because, my favorite to do during a dream, is the plugging your nose one it's such a weird dream, I actually did it two nights ago in a DILD
and I don't take the vitamin supplements either, what happens when you "accidentally do a WILD"?

When I do have an accidental WILD, I lye on the bed for a few seconds and I fall asleep. Going straight into the lucid dream, but there really short. I'm usually asleep for about one to one and a half hours. I like these accidental WILD's, they usually occur right after I wake up and goto the bathroom. I don't think much either, almost nothing. Witch makes it easier to fall asleep.

DILD, even though I've been attempting WILD for quite some time now.
usually go to bed around 12:00am putting a custom alarm at around 5:00 am and my normal alarm at 7:00 am.

this will change when I go to college again T.T

ahhh same here, well kinda, I got back into LDing a month ish ago, because I stopped getting into it, and then I only had like a month before school starts
now I have to wake up at 6am, so I'm gonna have to go to bed at like 8 to do a WILD!!! (which during the summer I went to bed around 2 to 6am) that's wayyy early for me, but I will have to set the alarm at 3am, then my normal one is at 6, I wonder if there is any way I can go to bed later than 8... because that would mean I go to sleep like 4 hours before I normally would on a school night
school has to mess it all upxD

I know there are other threads like this, but I would like to make my own

I see.

Originally Posted by XeL

I see.

are you trying to make a point? all I wanted was to hear some new answers or things people have tried

Originally Posted by erible

are you trying to make a point? all I wanted was to hear some new answers or things people have tried

Isn't that what the other threads were for, as well? It's not like the basic information has changed at all. The answers in those are just as new as the answers you'll get in this one.

I know but I want to talk to the people who post, I'm sorry for angering you with this thread
other threads like this are old, I want to ask questions

I like DEILD best

I can never do a DEILD! I tried one again last night for the first time in a while, I can't seem to get progress because I'm so tired

Nothing beats overall awareness. When you can remember to do reality checks without reminders, or alarms, or little watches that beep, then you're making progress. To lucid dream, all I need is about six hours of sleep, a minute or two of MILD, and I'm set.

I just can't WILD, though. Seriously, I just freakin' can't.

In my opinion It's not much about the technique u use It's more about training your brain with RC's and autosuggestion that's what make the difference I would say

again, It's just my opinion

Right now I have to say FILD. I work for 6 a.m. so I try to go to sleep as early as possible which is like 10 and use autosuggestion to wake me up at 4 before my alarm at 4:45. That usually gets me atleast 1 LD before waking up if I'm not too tired to care. I've kind of settled with improving my DR during the week and really focus on LDing on the weekends though. I'm currently trying DEILD with little progress.

MILD definately.

why are people replying to this Dx I made this last year when I first started LDing hahaha

DILD -> Gravity RC, thats all I use, and it works wonders for me. Plus, DILD > WILD for me, so yeah.

Probably DEILD. but you know that