A possible new DILD technique by mental connections

[JubilantJD]

After getting many DILDS by accident, I find that my method is very different from regular DILDS and usually brought me to or before the beginning of a dream. Some analysis tells me that this is what I accidentally used 5 or so times. I suggest it to people whose winds wander a lot and many times remembered RCing from connections with thoughts or out of nowhere. Help me test this method here are the steps. 1. Wake up in the early morning, yes many methods include this. 2. Don't stay awake for hours but don't go straight to sleep. Record any dreams you had and start asking deep philosophical questions or recite a song that gets stuck in your head. The key is to get the amount just right, think too much and you'll find it hard to fall asleep, too little and soon you'll stop thinking. 3. Go back to sleep and let your mind wander or recite to it's content. 4. This is the important moment. If something you wandered about forms connections with the idea of lucid dreaming (or thought of that out of nowhere) and you suddenly become aware, don't move or do a RC. Just look straight ahead. There are several different cases. a) you see little or no HI: keep wandering, change a sleeping position if you are uncomfortable. It won't affect your progress yet. b) you see some HI, try wandering around the topic of lucid dreaming. Move a little if you don't like the feeling of SP. c) HI is crazy and vivid: Almost there! Try a WILD technique for stabilizing dreams. When you feel your dream body, do some fun but sedentary LD stuff, like levitating, talking, observing...etc. Be patient and wait until the dream is stabilized until you start flying or doing a task of the week. Don't try to open your eyes how you would in real life, chances are you'll open your real eyes. Imagine them opening instead. d) seems like a stabilized dream: do a RC, if you're in bed choose those immobile RCs. Tell me if theres already a name for this method.

[MischiefManaged]

Ok, if I have b) case - see some HI and keep my thought on lucid dreaming what do I do next? I usually do just that, fall asleep and don't become lucid.

[JubilantJD]

Usually I don't find myself in the b) case so I'm not so sure either. Certain small movements or more intense thought tends to make me more aware, so if thinking around the topic of lucid dreaming doesn't work, i guess you should probably choose a different topic, and/or condition yourself to connect something more intense with remembering to check your surroundings.