Thread: What causes your DILD's?

They are usually spontaneous, but I also occasionally notice something strange.

Spontaeous

Because without using Google, I'm guessing it means, you just know.

Spontaneous, but if for some reason it's not spontaneous, it was triggered by a reality check.

The title should actually be What Causes Your DILDs. Mine is that I notice something weird usually.

Originally Posted by kingofclutch

The title should actually be What Causes Your DILDs. Mine is that I notice something weird usually.

woops, typo error. Thanks

I've only realized once, but when I did, no reality checks were needed. Bizarrely, I just knew and noticed that I was dreaming. :S

i have only had 3. two of them were from something weird/strange/unusual(although not too weird but enough to make me question reality i guess). the other one, which was my most recent, was spontaneous.

I have to say all of the above. Though to me, the first two are the same thing. Anything I notice that's out of the norm that triggers Lucidity I consider to be a dreamsign. Whether it's something that happens often, or it's the first time ever.

Even if it's something out of the norm that doesn't trigger my Lucidity. I guess I still consider it a dreamsign. Just an unrecognized one.

If it isn't spontaneous, then it will be me noticing something weird/strange/unusual.

I decided not to vote because its generally a multitude of things, anything from my dream lover to an odd occurence to some other random trigger.

reality check. I always thought you had to be lucid before reality checking, because RCs are just for confirming the fact that you are dreaming, but sometimes I just find myself doing a reality check without any control or knowing what I'm doing and then it just hits me that I'm dreaming. I sure do love that feeling.

Usually I don't remember the moment of attaining lucidity.

i think it is funny that everyone says a benefit of DJs is that you learn dream signs but no one as of yet uses them that much.

for me, it is spontaneous. i usually do a RC afterwards though to make sure but deep in side i don't really need it. before i knew about LDing, i would never do RCs and just go about my lucid business. there have been times, though, that i am lucid spontaneously and an RC makes me unlucid when it fails. those can kill a DILD pretty quickly.

It is interesting that most Dild's, according to the poll are spontaneous. I read that we often require certain neurological activity, or certain states of mind to achieve full lucidity in a dream. Dreams in general do not offer this level of neurological activity thus normal individuals are not lucid for the majority of their dreams.

Cynical as it may seem, does this mean that are we practising reality checks in vain? Presumably such trivial actions cannot change one's neurological activity. So do they really offer any substantial value in the quest for lucidity?

I voted spontaneous, although my (limited) DILDs have been brought on by both recognition of a dreamsign and by noticing weird things.

The majority are spontaneous. After becoming lucid, I will look around for something strange, and then reality check for affirmation to ground me in the dream.

Sometimes, I will spontaneously think to myself, "This is a dream" without even fully understanding what that means.

Its about half in half between Spontaneaous(accompanied by an RC) and noticing something weird

All my DILDs have been spontaneous so far... I can dream of the weirdest things and not react, and then while dreaming of some routine it will just kick in.

Hand reality checking worked for three out of five of my lucid dreams. If it is a nightmare I WILL know I am dreaming, but probably won't have the intelliegnce to do anything, but force myself to wake up.

Noticing I am dreaming in a nightmare is something I picked up as a kid. I never knew about lucid dreaming, but I really think if I can increase my nightmares then I can eventually learn to gain control instead of just waking myself up.

1 dreamsign, 16 spontaneous. The spontaneous are a number of things. Realizing things are strange, like odd behavior, people I don't know seeming familiar, etc., and seeing a clock and realizing it didn't agree with what time I went to sleep and then realizing I was asleep and dreaming, traveling down roads that are supposed to be familiar but I've never been on before, etc.

What is a DILD?

Originally Posted by Mattrick

What is a DILD?

it is a "dream induced lucid dream." this means that you started the dream normally but after awhile you realize that you were dreaming. this is opposed to a WILD (waking induced lucid dream) where you don't lose awareness as you fall asleep so you are lucid from the start.

if you need help on any more acronyms, here is a list of them. http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=2954

Originally Posted by westonci

Just curious

Preplanned routines from day residue. Includes doing reality check when a light fails to work properly when switched on. I leave a small light on during sleep to autosuggest seeing lights in the dream. Most likely the lights fail in the dream and I become lucid.

IMJ

I have only had 2 DILD I think, both of them were triggered in the dream by fear.