will this induction method work?

**somniumrex** · 12-28-2010 07:02 AM

okay i've had plenty of lucids over the years with MILD DILD and a couple others. it's been a little while since i've practiced and rather than reading and trying an outlined method i'm mixing and matching from memory. it's kind of what i feel has combined to work in the past. does this sound good?

i wrote down ten times throughout the day to test my state. they are things like: every time i change location (building). every time i eat. stuff like that. i'm going to make sure i do each one every day all day. it's only ten and i picked ones that aren't to absurdly constant but not rare either. in addition i'm going to try to be mindful of everything i do all day, increased presence through buddhist mindfulness technique. i write down my dreams every morning. i'm going to wake up after sleeping for 7.5 hours or some other amount of 90 minutes in the morning, get up write down my dreams and then fall back asleep saying in my head "the next time i'm dreaming i want to remember i'm dreaming." over and over as i drift off. will this work? critiques anyone is welcome

the end, below is more explanation and background if anyone's interested

i was trying really hard to have them months ago. i tried dream yoga with ZERO results sadly other than making it hard to learn things at a new job because while being trained i kept reminding myself it was just a dream (in part that's the dream yoga technique, it's taxing to say the least) lol. then i went back to old tried and true MILD. i wrote down four state test targets and reminded myself of them throughout the day and usually hit at least three. i debated with myself on whether constantly reminding myself counted as memory or more of a mantra and maybe i should read it once and then just try to remember without going over it in my head again throughout the day. i had little good result. not none, i had a couple semi lucids and at least one really true good lucid. then i gave up. after pretty much giving up and falling out of habit i had a few wicked good lucids. really impressive where i couldn't be fooled even by multiple false awakenings. great control, walking through walls, "possessing" dc's, hurting myself and then realizing it wasn't my body and stepping out of it, stuff like that. i really knew what was going on. so i wondered why such good dreams after giving up. is it because i had practiced so much and it just took that long to take fully? or because i had started to be very mindful through my unrelated buddhist practice? this combined with recall equals lucid dreams? so maybe intense mindfulness and dedicated djing is all i need?

**moongrass** · 12-28-2010 07:32 AM

Sounds like a good straight forward method. One thing I would change is your mantra as your falling asleep. You need to be more assertive than "want." My mantra is simple and to the point, "I lucid dream!" But playing off of yours I would change it to, "I know when I am dreaming!"

**somniumrex** · 12-28-2010 08:05 AM

Originally Posted by moongrass

Sounds like a good straight forward method. One thing I would change is your mantra as your falling asleep. You need to be more assertive than "want." My mantra is simple and to the point, "I lucid dream!" But playing off of yours I would change it to, "I know when I am dreaming!"

hey thanx man! good advice. i like your mantra, sounds cave man style lol! seems like a good attitude since the sleeping brain is kind of like that anyway!

**moongrass** · 12-28-2010 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by somniumrex

hey thanx man! good advice. i like your mantra, sounds cave man style lol! seems like a good attitude since the sleeping brain is kind of like that anyway!

Haha, I have never thought of it like that! Yeah, it always seems to work for me. I think I read it in a book but I do not really remember.

**somniumrex** · 12-29-2010 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by moongrass

Haha, I have never thought of it like that! Yeah, it always seems to work for me. I think I read it in a book but I do not really remember.

i've been trying your simplified version and it seems i repeat it more times before falling asleep, still no luck but i think it works better so thanx

also i did accomplish stepping into a dream using it. i was thinking "i lucid dream" and then i'm walking in snow thinking about meeting up with a friend named george or something. but i was awoken by something

**moongrass** · 01-01-2011 12:25 AM

Originally Posted by somniumrex

i've been trying your simplified version and it seems i repeat it more times before falling asleep, still no luck but i think it works better so thanx

also i did accomplish stepping into a dream using it. i was thinking "i lucid dream" and then i'm walking in snow thinking about meeting up with a friend named george or something. but i was awoken by something

Congrats on the success. It has to start somewhere. Just stick with it and it will happen.

**somniumrex** · 01-13-2011 02:41 AM

great success! first lucid in a few months. this technique works great! also moongrass tips helped too. instead of a long sentence when MILDing back to sleep i just said in my head "i lucid dream" and it worked great!