Excellent DILD technique - 'Forging a Dream'

[chadol]

Well, this is a very effective DILD technique for me. Here it goes. (Remember to do RCs as often as possible while awake; the more the better.) (I personally use the nose pinch.) (I do not keep a Dream Journal. Yup, no dream journal. I don't have problems becoming lucid; I only have problems making them stable.) This technique, which I call "Forgery", is very simple. You just need to think about yourself doing RCs while you are lying in your bed, trying to sleep. I know that this sounds a lot like 'VILD'(Am I right? Is this the technique where you think about a single scenario of yourself RCing, and keep thinking about it? Correct me if I'm wrong..), but there is a MAJOR difference between it. First of all, you have to think about RCing in places you have dreamed previously. It is even better when you imagine yourself RCing in places where you have succeeded in getting lucid. I am not a psychologist or anything of that sort, so I can't be sure why this is very effective, but here's my guess. Do you feel like you've been in a normal, non - lucid dream scene for more than once? Well, I think that this is the reason why I find Forgery very effective. When you enter a dream using my technique, there is a high chance that my brain will enter one of the dream scenes I was imagining about. Thus, it creates a higher chance of attaining lucidity. Secondly, it is a DILD technique. I view 'VILD' as a WILD technique, seeing how we are supposed to make a 'transition' to the place we were imagining to our dreams FLAWLESSLY. With Forgery, it is like a mantra. You are reciting a graphical mantra in your head before you sleep. You don't make a 'transition' into the dream. You FIND yourself in it. Finally, as I stated above, Forgery is graphical. Let's face it : Mantras are boring. They are easy to forget. However, when you think about dream scenes you have previously gone into, the mantra gets graphical. You are not reciting them; you are playing them. This is very important because it will make you less bored and the mantras will find you in your dreams more easily. So, let's see our friend Tommy here for example. Tommy has had 2 occasions where he went lucid. A - In front of his house B - Under the Statue of Liberty Tommy has a place he keeps visiting in his normal dreams. C - New Jersey Turnpike McDonald's. All Tommy has to do is just visualize A, B, and C over and over again when he tries to get asleep. (The order of A, B, and C does not really matter. You can go like ABCBCABBCABAACCCB~, in a completely random sequence.) Simple, huh? Give this a try. It's simple as eating dimples.

[dolphin]

What you're describing here is the MILD technique. One of the best techniques but nothing new.

[Dahaka]

I will try this tonight. So I'm supposed to imagine myself becoming lucid in a dream until I fall asleep? BTW do you do WBTB when attempting this technique?

[dolphin]

More specifically, you set a confident intention to lucid dream as you're falling asleep. Your goal is to make the intention strong enough so that it's on the back of your mind while you're dreaming. You can use visualization, mantras, or both at once; whichever gives you the most confidence. You use WBTB if you're falling sleep too quickly to set said intention. This technique works simply because of our ability to recall intentions while dreaming. The stronger the intention, the easier it is to recall.

[chadol]

What you're describing here is the MILD technique. One of the best techniques but nothing new. Yup, this technique looked kinda familiar. Just proves that I am a DV noob :-)

[chadol]

1) Yes. 2) No. No WBTB. I'm sure this works when you use WBTB, but I can NEVER get myself up when I'm sleeping...

[chadol]

Thanks - I learned a lot about how our 'lucid' mind works.

[robertcox88]

Nice... will try this tonight. I usually just do verbal mantras but many times other images will pop into my head. If I do visual mantras I think that will go further in preventing those other random images from popping up as much.