Thread: DILD - Dream Initiated Lucid Dream

Trying to find a consistent way to recall dreams before I can even attempt to DILD.

The problem with DILD is that I can just sleep right through and not notice a dream or recall it.

If I set 3 alarms and get out of my bed, then go back to bed (is this all WBTB is?) is this a good method to recall and LD?

I tried alarms last night, I actually awoke before the alarms as I seem to be waking up after a major REM. But I never left the bed. I just rolled over and went quickly back to sleep.

Is forcing the issue a good thing? I.e. getting out of bed, trying to remember?

I need to get a better sleeping schedule, although I do seem to wake on my own after a REM after using alarms for a few weeks.

Originally Posted by BatteryCharged

Trying to find a consistent way to recall dreams before I can even attempt to DILD.

The problem with DILD is that I can just sleep right through and not notice a dream or recall it.

If I set 3 alarms and get out of my bed, then go back to bed (is this all WBTB is?) is this a good method to recall and LD?

I tried alarms last night, I actually awoke before the alarms as I seem to be waking up after a major REM. But I never left the bed. I just rolled over and went quickly back to sleep.

Is forcing the issue a good thing? I.e. getting out of bed, trying to remember?

I need to get a better sleeping schedule, although I do seem to wake on my own after a REM after using alarms for a few weeks.

1. If you had a lucid dream, you would notice. And you would most likely, almost positively wake up after it. It's just so exciting and different, that you will wake up. So I would start working on DILDs at the same time as working on recall.

2. WBTB - this is mostly done when WILDing, but it can help with DILDs too. The purpose of WBTB is to wake up your mind a bit, so it doesn't fall asleep too quickly. For this, you have to get out of the bed for at least a few minutes.

But, for a purpose of recalling a dream, you don't need to get out of the bed. In fact, when you wake up, lay still and try to think of a dream you just came out of. When you have it, retell it with words, don't just replay the images. That way it gets transfered into your daytime memory. Now you can get up or reach for your dream journal and write it down. Or at least some phrases, that will help you remember it in the morning, when you write the whole dream down.

You can use alarm for this. But it doesn't guarantee that it will wake you up at the right time. But you saying, that you are waking up naturally, even before alarm sounds. This is perhaps because you set an intent to wake up at night by setting your alarm. And intents work just like that. You tell yourself "I wake after every dream and remember it".

The way it's working right now, could be as you say. Because naturally we wake up after every sleep cycle, which ends with REM. So after a dream ends. We just don't notice these micro-awakenings. We just turn to the other side and sleep some more. But you set your intent and now you waking up by yourself. Take the advantage of that and recall and record your dreams at that time.

I do something similar. Instead of alarm, I drink some water before bed and then every time it wakes me up. Some nights I remember a dream every time I wake up.

Happy dreams

Originally Posted by gab

But, for a purpose of recalling a dream, you don't need to get out of the bed. In fact, when you wake up, lay still and try to think of a dream you just came out of. When you have it, retell it with words, don't just replay the images. That way it gets transfered into your daytime memory. Now you can get up or reach for your dream journal and write it down. Or at least some phrases, that will help you remember it in the morning, when you write the whole dream down.

You can use alarm for this. But it doesn't guarantee that it will wake you up at the right time. But you saying, that you are waking up naturally, even before alarm sounds. This is perhaps because you set an intent to wake up at night by setting your alarm. And intents work just like that. You tell yourself "I wake after every dream and remember it".

The way it's working right now, could be as you say. Because naturally we wake up after every sleep cycle, which ends with REM. So after a dream ends. We just don't notice these micro-awakenings. We just turn to the other side and sleep some more. But you set your intent and now you waking up by yourself. Take the advantage of that and recall and record your dreams at that time.

I have a tough time remembering dreams, even right afterwards. Usually I wake and I don't recall anything. I have feelings but I'm not sure why, I may be excited, but no clue why. Dreams come like a bursting water balloon. It goes from thinking I hadn't dreamed anything to just one thing reminding me of what happened causing a stream of memories to come forward.

I think I will need to get out of bed because just sitting there does no good and I quickly fall asleep again.

The last two nights I can't recall dreams. And to be honest, that's all I really want for now, is to recall dreams. I do get dreams where I interact, but being taken for a ride can be fun also.

I just want to be able to recall dreams whenever I wish. LD is kind of a secondary goal for now.

Well I did the 3 alarms and it worked very well. Like I've read before on here, early on you get fewer dreams, later it's much better. I broke it up into 3 2hour breaks, first break couldn't remember a thing, 2nd break had a really good dream, 3rd break was a really long complicated dream in multi-locations with a connected story.

Very happy I seem to be able to at least get to dreaming.

As a side note, the 2nd dream was a bit funny and a bit interesting. I was in a conference room with Stephen Colbert and he was insulting me. I told him "I never knew you were such a dick". He really didn't look like Colbert, but some how I talked to him as if he were.

Suddenly we're on a street corner and he mentions something about "you're a regular Teddy anh-uh-man".

At first I thought it was a subconscious reference to a person that I knew as a kid named Ted Hagamann.

In my introduction I've explained that I have a lot of precog dreams. And that is one of my main interest in dreaming. So I was kind of amazed to find a famous precog magician named Teddy Annemann from the 30s.

I live in an old house built in the 20s. I think my dreams are influenced by those that have lived here as well.

Oddly enough, the person that was Stephen Colbert looked like the images of Annemann I found online. Greased back hair from the 30s.

I've never heard of this guy before. Or at least not consciously.