I do believe I had an epiphany the other day in terms of attaining lucidity and I think I may be on to a new method in terms of vividness.

As far as I'm concerned, The ADA and Reality checks haven't bled into my dreams yet. Being over 2 months, moving on to the 3rd month and no lucid dream yet, I decided to revise my approach, while still staying relative to the concept of Dild's.


So the other night it was standard protocol for me: Stay aware of surroundings with heightened level of awareness, practice reality checks every now and then etc. etc. Come bed time I was drifting off to sleep recapping the entire day and its progress through the hours, but it wasn't too long before my mind hit the "day dreaming" state where my imagination began to wander in thoughts..... and then it hits me: Every time I daydream some weird scenario (be it about trains, rockets, or epic lightsaber battles), I never envision myself doing reality checks or being aware of my surroundings.

Now I'm more awake then ever because this notion got me excited. I spend the next few minutes calming myself down before I put my idea into practice. I let my mind wander with it's crazy thoughts, but instead I tried to "imagine" myself being aware. I imagined myself doing reality checks in mid-world. It felt weird at first, but I found myself getting exhausted and decided to just let go and fall asleep.

Well surely enough it had an impact. Sadly it was no lucid dream, but the vividness was amazing enough to compensate. I even managed to do reality checks (unfortunately they failed. Damn). Now being that this is only one night, I am going to give it a fair trial, but you have to admit: Nothing works for almost 3 months, and then suddenly bam - 120% increase in vividness)



To summarize this post in a nutshell: My theory is: If you imagine yourself being highly aware of all your senses, and you imagine yourself doing reality checks while your mind is wandering before you go to sleep, it will bleed over into your dreams. It's sort of like practicing both ADA and reality checks through an imaginary state.

It would be greatly appreciated if anybody takes this theory into practice. I really want to see if this works, or if I've just gone insane.