Hey! Im into Lucid dreaming for 1,5 years but I had huge periods were I wasnt motivated to LD because of stress. I dont know why exactly but Im back to LDing with more motivation than ever.
I know in general all the techniques, but the one that is the hardest is definitely WILD. I think I had one with the king yoshi's guide, but that was luck, I fell asleep but woke up when SP kicked in, had terrible recall of the lucid though...
DEILD was actually a good technique for me (now that I remember this Im thinking why Im not training it right now lol) I started to use a program called Lucidweaver in my phone that is basically a CANWILD. I had 1 or 2 lucids with it in one week, but stopped. I combined it with a mantra telling "I stay still when I wake up". But days after I woke up, I was randomly waking up when SP kicked. It happened 4 or 5 times that way without "training" (the mantra and focusing). The passage from SP to an LD is easy for me, I just try to feel im sinking into bed and then it seems that my body is rolling in the floor because of ocean waves that are striking me, then I RC and Im in a dream. I think that I stopped trying DEILD because I felt that it was random and that there were no successfull ways to achieve it. It would be nice if someone could help me with some idea :)
DILD worked a few times, maybe 6 total. Sometimes I dont really do a RC I just know that IM dreaming.
That leads me to MILD. This is a very promising technique despite the fact that I only had one. Because my autosuggestions work for most of the times. Im actually following up a guide. There are 4 things that I point to each day of the week and I must ask to myself if I am dreaming everytime I see one of those 4 things. For example today I must notice:
1- When Im drinking
2- When someone calls me
3- When I feel pain
4- When Im writing
I also do a RC with the question. This trains my mneumonic memory. Then when I fall asleep I clear my thoughts and I think "I will wake up after my dreams" untill I fall asleep. I wake up in the middle of the night naturally and write my dreams down. And then Im supposed to be a bit more awake and think the mantras. Then I fall asleep with the mantra (Next dream I dream I will know that Im dreaming). I actually dont tried to say the mantras while "awake" during the night. I was really tired. Im going to do that tonight though.
My goals now are to complete the Task of the month (basic and advanced) and then the ones in my signature :P
Despite my low number of lucids I seem to have good dream control, because I can make people show up in rooms (im not looking at them directly) I once made a towel levitate, and I made a cupcake and an AK-47 materialize on the floor :P
The only prob is my dream stabilization. My LD are ALWAYS short, like nothing more that one minute. That is my main problem and I really need help there! I try the stabilization techniques and the dream turns HQ but a bit later the dream just vanishes and Im back into bed (I always do a RC and no FA). I read somewhere that when you stop your eyes from moving you stop your REM and then you wake up, is that true? If yes I just found out my problem xD! I remember of the dream vanishing because I stared to one spot for about 1 sec. That really sucks man! xD
I already said a lot of stuff so Im over now :P I will try to make this thread my DJ and I will post my progress. And I appreciated some help in the DEILD and in the dream stabilization. Thanks!