Thread: How long did it take you to have your first LD?

Hey all I have recently been trying FILD and DEILD recently. I wake up after 4hrs and a half and I notice that I feel exhausted. However I end up falling asleep quickly before I can try it. Should I set my alarm someplace where I have to look for it for a little bit to wake me up for a bit?

Originally Posted by kamenriderbaron

...FILD and DEILD recently. I wake up after 4hrs and a half and I notice that I feel exhausted. However I end up falling asleep quickly before I can try it. Should I set my alarm someplace where I have to look for it for a little bit to wake me up for a bit?

For DEILD you don't wake up for more than a few seconds, and you don't move, falling asleep quickly is the only way to succeed. For me when I attempt it I notice that my eyes are like flashing (because I am exiting a dream, like literally seconds afterward, it feels like I'm falling asleep but really I'm micro awakening) I don't even open my eyes much less turn to look at a clock or move body, you try to fall asleep but into a dream, often I will feel tingling paralysis set in but the only time or two that I have succeeded I just instantly find myself in a dream, if you 'wake up a bit' it isn't Dream Exit its Wake Back To Bed.

For FILD I suppose you could do WBTB.

If you for some reason don't want to fall asleep quickly because you want to do MILD then cross your legs or something to be a bit uncomfortable, do your manta to set intention for a while, then uncross and possibly roll over to be more comfortable and then quickly fall back to sleep (the idea being that you don't wake your self up much (so you can still fall asleep quickly) but delay sleep long enough to do the MILD setup)