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Problem with DILD
I'm having this problem with DILD.I've been attempting it for 2 weeks now. Like today and yesterday i had some amazingly vivid dreams, i can tell that the dream journal is paying off and i'm doing like more than 30 reality checks every day and not mindlessly too, i put real thought into every reality check i do. So in these dreams of mine i wasn't lucid, but i could control things with my mind, for example i thought about a meteor shower occuring and upon looking at the starts a meteor shower began. I also managed to set a building on fire. I remember thinking
something like "Now that appartment on the 7th floor is going to catch fire" And it did! Then i thought that about other apartments and floors and they all caught fire. I even created a bus stop the same way, everything i was thinking about came true, but it still didn't make me realise i was dreaming and at the same time i kinda knew i was... i really can't explain it, it's something i never felt before.After getting this feeling i performed a reality check and guess what, it didn't work. I tried pushing my fingers through my hand and they didn't go through, neither was breathing while holding my nose possible. It's the first time i perform a reality check in my dreams. The whole experience isn't even simular to what i read on these LD websites, is there something i'm doing wrong?
(Sorry if i have any typos or anything, i'm still learning english...)
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Hi again! Fantastic day practice with the RCs and it is really a good sign that they are transferring to dreaming. Our sleeping mind can be very confused at times, you might perform a RC and it might fail. Of course, when we do an RC, we expect for it to work, but sometimes it doesn't. Don't be discouraged by this as it happens to everyone. It quite often makes for very funny stories too.
So, keep up the RCs. You can do more than one type of RC, if you really want to be sure. Also, it may help to identify your dream signs and repeat a mantra like "I see (Dream sign1), I become lucid/realize I am dreaming, etc.", "I see (Dream sign2), I realize that I am dreaming" throughout the day.
It also helps to be excited and positive during RCs, thinking that every time you perform RCs, it may really be a dream. Hope that helps! :)
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It has been my experience that when you are almost lucid the dreams are vivid. Your consciousness is close to coming awake if you will. If you did an RC you definitely were close.