Now, that's a good idea ( thread on my signature ) |
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A month ago I awoke from a nightmare, and then without moving, I imagined the scene and found myself back in the dream lucid. I discovered this was called the DEILD method. So now every time I wake up in the night and try to imagine the dream I just had, nothing works. I can't re-enter the dream. I need to know why. |
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Now, that's a good idea ( thread on my signature ) |
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Last edited by VagalTone; 04-06-2014 at 06:58 PM.
Check your memory, did any suprising event happpen ? does the present make sense ? visualize what you will do when lucid, and how. Reality check as reminder of your intention to lucid dream tonight. Sleep as good as you can; when going to sleep, relax and invite whatever comes with curiosity. Grab your dream journal immediately as you awake and write everything you can recall (if only when you wake up for good). Keep calm, positive and persistent, and don't forget to have fun along the way
^^ What VaVagaltone said, plus: |
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Hey VagalTone / Sageous, if people tend to wake at the end of a REM cycle, does that then make doing a DEILD quite difficult? |
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Thank you for the links, I will look at those. |
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If you wake up at the end of REM cycle, i don´t see how DEILD can happen but you still can WILD. |
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Check your memory, did any suprising event happpen ? does the present make sense ? visualize what you will do when lucid, and how. Reality check as reminder of your intention to lucid dream tonight. Sleep as good as you can; when going to sleep, relax and invite whatever comes with curiosity. Grab your dream journal immediately as you awake and write everything you can recall (if only when you wake up for good). Keep calm, positive and persistent, and don't forget to have fun along the way
Maybe two seconds is too much; for some time I used a sound giving two high pitched bell sounds (Tibetan bells). The total duration of the first bell sound was about two seconds, and it would leave me fully awake before the second bell sounded a few seconds later. I never did find an appropriate sound volume level, where it would leave me slightly awake. It was always either completely awake, or completely oblivious. |
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So ... is this the real universe, or is it just a preliminary study?
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It can, which is why it makes sense to do your DEILDing well into your sleep cycle (after 5hrs, generally), when your REM periods are practically bumping into each other. |
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I guess we're all different, but I thought that the state of brain chemistry was one of the 3 legs of the LD stool, so if the REM cycle has ended it was very difficult to get back in. I've been using the Zeo headband for quite some time now, as well as one of the open EEG devices, and for me it doesn't look like my REM episodes bump into each other later on. Maybe that's just me. I appear to have about 10-30 minutes of REM about every 90. The REM length does increase a bit at the end of the night (morning). |
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^^ That may be, but brain chemistry has never been one of the three legs of my LD'ing stool (those legs being self-awareness, memory, and expectation/intention, the Fundamentals), which could explain why you and I are different. |
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^^ Believe it or not, I actually left something out of that last post, and it was a bit that might more directly address your post, Goldenspark: |
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I don't know if you've tried this or not, but practicing waking up is a very effective way to change your default reaction. You can lay in bed, pretending to sleep, imagining a dream or w/e, with your alarm set for 1 minute in the future. Then when it goes off, continue to lay completely still, and re-imagine the 'dream' you were having. If you do this for a handful of rounds, it will be the default pattern. I did this successfully to train myself to wake up to a low volume chime being struck. Works wonders! |
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"Above All, Love"
~Unknown~
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Last edited by Sensei; 04-07-2014 at 09:06 PM.
Hey Dro, I hope you don't mind this little aside - don't want to hijack your thread! |
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Check your memory, did any suprising event happpen ? does the present make sense ? visualize what you will do when lucid, and how. Reality check as reminder of your intention to lucid dream tonight. Sleep as good as you can; when going to sleep, relax and invite whatever comes with curiosity. Grab your dream journal immediately as you awake and write everything you can recall (if only when you wake up for good). Keep calm, positive and persistent, and don't forget to have fun along the way
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