Thread: DEILD - Dream Exit Initiated Lucid Dream

^^ For successfully DEILDing, there is no need to remember all your dreams from that night, and certainly no need to write anything down (for the particular DEILD you are attempting, of course; you should still keep a DJ regardless).

All you need is good enough recall to have a feel for the dream you are exiting; an understanding that you are exiting a dream as you wake up. You likely have that feel already, given that you are keeping a DJ. With that feel, you can focus on your return to the dream you just exited when you go back to sleep. Which brings on you other problem:

If it always takes as long as 30 minutes to fall back to sleep, then DEILD might not be the thing for you. However:

DEILD works best when you can realize that you are waking up from a dream, and can pretty much go back to sleep before you are fully awake. This is not as difficult as it might sound: you naturally tend to wake up and return to sleep almost immediately several times a night, even if you don't remember. What you want to do with DEILD is catch one of these awakenings, and basically allow yourself to jump across that brief awakening without losing the dream. In your case, it could be that you are waking up fully before attempting a DEILD, which would result in your missing the opportunity to make that jump.

What to do about it? Well, you could try to stay calm, keep your eyes closed, remember or continue to visualize your dream and simply wait for sleep to return (and of course do the stuff that Zoth lists in the OP). If you are calm enough, then you might avoid coming fully awake and return to your dream in moments. But if this always fails and you tend to be fully awake immediately, then you might want to consider converting that DEILD attempt to a traditional WILD attempt.

Originally Posted by Sageous

^^ For successfully DEILDing, there is no need to remember all your dreams from that night, and certainly no need to write anything down (for the particular DEILD you are attempting, of course; you should still keep a DJ regardless).

All you need is good enough recall to have a feel for the dream you are exiting; an understanding that you are exiting a dream as you wake up. You likely have that feel already, given that you are keeping a DJ. With that feel, you can focus on your return to the dream you just exited when you go back to sleep. Which brings on you other problem:

If it always takes as long as 30 minutes to fall back to sleep, then DEILD might not be the thing for you. However:

DEILD works best when you can realize that you are waking up from a dream, and can pretty much go back to sleep before you are fully awake. This is not as difficult as it might sound: you naturally tend to wake up and return to sleep almost immediately several times a night, even if you don't remember. What you want to do with DEILD is catch one of these awakenings, and basically allow yourself to jump across that brief awakening without losing the dream. In your case, it could be that you are waking up fully before attempting a DEILD, which would result in your missing the opportunity to make that jump.

What to do about it? Well, you could try to stay calm, keep your eyes closed, remember or continue to visualize your dream and simply wait for sleep to return (and of course do the stuff that Zoth lists in the OP). If you are calm enough, then you might avoid coming fully awake and return to your dream in moments. But if this always fails and you tend to be fully awake immediately, then you might want to consider converting that DEILD attempt to a traditional WILD attempt.

Hi sageous, I have been attemping DEILD with an alarm for a while now with some interesting results. My alarm goes off 6 hours into sleep for 2 seconds before automatically switching itself off and then going off every 30 mins after that. The results have been as follows:

Fri 06.Bed at 11pm > Woke naturally after dream > didnt move > kept mantra > hit powerful waves of head vibrations > separated into an OBE

Sun 08.Bed at 12am > Alarm during a dream > didnt move > visualized previous dream with mantra > hit powerful waves of head vibrations > separated into an OBE

Sun 22.Bed at 12am > Alarm > no dream residue > didnt move > manipulated my tinnitus > huge loud noise in ears > separated into an OBE

Mon 24. Bedt at 12am > Alarm during dream > didnt move > Saw quick images > tried to lock onto an image for 1 min > was awake

Tue 01.Bed at 100pm > Alarm during dream > didnt move > Got rapid flashing images for about 1 mini > was awake, attempted a wild

So i have had attempts where i wake using an alarm during a dream and keeping still, simply had HI but no reentry.

If i was to attempt a wild after a failed deild, should i just continue to lay there for without moving after about 1 min of the deild not working to creat a 'seamless' process?

Thanks
Ezzo