Last night I woke up perfectly, however I was in somewhat of a weird position, which wasn't helpful :P
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Last night I woke up perfectly, however I was in somewhat of a weird position, which wasn't helpful :P
I almost had success with this this morning, actually. I had woken up without an alarm, at 8 or something. Apparently, I'm starting to do this naturally, which is great.
Anyway, I wasn't even thinking about lucid dreaming, but I wasn't moving at all, and was just thinking about things. And I kept noticing odd sensations, like I was hearing or feeling things partially, but then each time I would wake back up more and ignore it, to keep thinking. (I find it fun, thinking over the past and the future and life itself) But then it hit me, that I'd been chasing off successful dream entrances! I had actually been entering dreams while conscious, doing DEILD, without even trying to! Unfortunately, by the time I realized this I was too awake, and could not reenter. (or perhaps I was just too excited to)
Anyway, I think this is a good method, if one can nearly do it without even trying to!
Hell yes!
It's my first day I'm learning DEILD. First night I wanted to get ability to wake up after every dream. I was repeating my mantra before I falled asleep, I got into some kind of trance-like state, my mind was repeating the mantra automatically, which is a good sign, isn't it? And then... I woke up two times at night :D
I'm not waking up at night normally, now I need to get ability to not move or open my eyes after waking up :)
Venryx - That's brilliant progress.
Imagine what you can achieve once you intentionally attempt a DEILD!
We learn from our experiences, and now I hope you know not to chase away any dream entries any more :P.
Please tell me how your future efforts turn out :)
MrOMGWTF - You don't 'get' the ability to wake up after every dream; it's already happening. :)
We automatically wake up after every dream, it's been naturally incorporated into your sleep cycle from the time you were born.
We can only train ourselves to catch our awakenings, as opposed to inducing them.
I'd like to suggest mantra's to alleviate both of your situations.
In order to overcome your movement, try something like "I wake up perfectly still, with my eyes closed."
To enable yourself to notice all of your awakenings, I suggest something like "I will awake after every dream"
(Even though this is already happening, it'll encourage your brain to catch whenever you wake up.)
Best of luck, tell me how it goes. :)
Nothing is free.
You must set your intent to lucid dream or DEILD or dream recall before going to sleep.
If I go to sleep with mixed thoughts it wont work. (If I do anything with mixed thoughts it wont work) If you operate machinery while fighting with your girlfriend is on your mind I would'nt want to carry your life insurance :P There are thousands of meditations on Youtube to clear your mind first.
Its always back to basics/planning.. If you read the map twice and still cant get to Kalamazoo, Better read the map again :P
I play steel guitar and if I go to bed with a song rolling around in my head and don't clear it out first I will wake up with it still going.. The same goes for dream planning, If I go to sleep with Lucid dreaming or DEILD rolling around in my head there is prolly no way I could stop it from happening...When I wake up saying aw-shit its too late.. ^..^
That's awesome!
Do you suppose you could focus your intent on lucid dreaming, and obtain a lucid?!
Easiest method ever! :P
This has nothing to do with DEILD although I did that today too..
I tried an experiment, I know I can AP my way into a lucid dream and I wasn't sleepy so I put on a music with binaural beat disk called sleeping pill for insomniacs, Only 10 minutes long. It didn't work !
Next I tried it with a cigarette lighter AP Induction and the old proven EGYPYO mantra, What I got was better than 40 years ago in the good old days. I got a short but beautiful psychedelic trance, The sad thing is it all ended when the music did :P
Managed a DEILD last night! Felt the same vibrations as I did the first time I did one, and "spawned" in my living room. I span round a few times, and attempted to fly by saying "if this were a dream, I would be flying" but that didn't work (probably being too ambitious). It lasted for roughly 30 seconds to 1 minute before I woke up. Upon waking up I stayed still again. However I managed SP only and no dream showed up; I don't think I was visualizing.
Finally, after a month and a half, I'm able to LD! All I need to do now is stabilize my dreams and that's it!
Marcus! Congratulations man, I'm super proud of you.
In future, when you attempt to affirm yourself to endorse your actions, try speaking in current tense, with certainty.
I.E: "I'm the master of my dreams, I CAN FLY."
"I'm completely in control, I can do whatever I want."
As you said, don't forget to stabilize!
Confidence is key bro, congratulations though, you can't expect too much from your first few lucids :)
Excellent job, tell me how your future attempts go!
Bill - Do you prefer AP, or LD? :)
Mantras are weird... :D
Yesterday when I was in bed, I was repeating my mantra, it's "I wake up after every dream without moving.".
When I'm saying my mantra, it puts me into some kind of trance really fast... It's kinda on auto-repeat, suddenly I got more aware, I felt really uncomfortable.. I think I was near sleep paralysis, but I moved. I felt so weird. I was like, ok I need to go to sleep, the mantra is keeping me awake. So I rolled on my side, and... I just couldn't stop the mantra repeating xD. It was just going and going forever. Well, finally I fell asleep. From the point when I started saying that mantra, I wake up one, or two, or more times a night. I remember that when I woke up at 2:50 am, I was lying there, I got up, I wanted to put my clothes on, but then I was like WTF? And went back to bed :D
Weird stuff.
Yuppie, I prefer Lucid dreaming to AP but if I cant sleep an AP is a good substitute, You can AP almost any time.
And if I fall asleep in an AP it becomes a lucid dream then anyways :P
Thanks mate, I'll definitely give this a try!
MrOmgWtf - Make your mantra's as conscience and succinct as possible, instead of "without moving" consider substituting two words for one: "Motionless."
Shorter is always better, it's far easier for your brain to retain. :)
Also, you should never chase off sleep paralysis, it's the prelude to a DEILD!
Bill - That's cool then, I've never really looked into AP. :D
Marcus - No problem dude, tell me how it works out.
I had a question pertaining to this method. It's mentioned that when you start LD you should have a dream journal to right it down, but it seems this method you need to stay still to "reenter the dream" so you wouldn't get a chance to right anything down? Or is it something you remember the whole time and are still able to write down when you eventually wake up?
Houstonderk - If you read the guide, it's specifically mentioned that it's immensely useful to have your dream recall up to scratch before commencing DEILD.
Once you're capable of recalling your dreams when you wake up for the final time, you can just jot them all down when you get up.
If you ever need to work on your recall again, you can simply cease DEILD attempts for a few days, while you regain your memory.
However, generally speaking, once you have it, it can be easily maintained. :)
I prepared my mantra word by word, to be most effective. This is just a lame translation of it.
Could you elaborate, please?
I don't quite understand you :)
You said:
What I mean, is that my mantra is in another language, I was designing it word by word to be as effective as possible. What I posted was a bad translation of it.Quote:
Make your mantra's as conscience and succinct as possible (...)
Just had a momentary lucid from this. (I lost it as soon as I opened my eyes and explained things away!)
Here's the account: Lucid Dream 20 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Pretty neat method, it's amazing how quickly it works.
Well, regardless of your situation, the advice still stands.
I'm sorry, but there was absolutely no way I could have known you were translating a mantra from another language. :)
Venryx - I read the whole account, that's really cool! :P
I feel for you on the Ipad situation, but I'm sure it's something you'll look back on and laugh at! :lol:
We've all had moments like that, I've had dreams about BEING on Dreamviews. T_T
It's a great learning experience, once you make a few mistakes like that, they gradually begin to disappear.
Also, in your conclusion, I can see you're growing fond of DEILD. :)
Hmmm, I thought maybe it was a dead spot in my computer, Anybody ?
I have been preoccupied with stuff and even while listening to sleep music I have numbers running thru my head when I fall asleep and wake up the same way and expect that to continue for a few more days but I didnt think it rubbed off on everybody else :P
Nice technique, seems to be fairly simple. Would you recommend it to someone who hasn't had lucid dream before? And regarding the first optional step, I'm pretty sure I would be able to keep my eyes closed and stay still after waking up, but I'm not too sure I'd be able to wake up after every dream as whenever I use mantras, they rarely seem to work.
DEILD'ing has been a butt lately, I do it a lot and its really the most vivid of them all but always It begins somewhere in my apt with me still in bed or setting on something, I see the computer which is in the other room and can use it with mind control I guess what with the missing icons and mystic/cryptic writing and I have gone so far as to pick up my recorder and record what I'm seeing just to find later I didnt record anything but I cant seem to get out of there or even get up and walk around, Maybe next time if I remember I'll try to just levitate or something.
Santoryu - I whole heartedly recommend DEILD for beginners!
As you said yourself, it's an incredibly simplistic technique :)
The matter isn't whether you 'wake up' after every dream, it's whether you realise you wake up after every dream. Whether you like it or not, it's just the way humans are wired. As I've mentioned numerous times, your brain has simply trained your body to disregard the awakenings you experience every night, simply because they're not considered important. It's such a frequent event, your body couldn't care less. I definitely condone the use of mantra's, even though you're not too confident with them. Give them a shot, you'll be surprised. If not, we'll work it out from there!
I suggest you just jump right into it, and don't overthink it. Be sure to tell me how you go!
Best of luck man.
Bill - That's great to hear, brother.
You sound like you're doing super well. :)
I'm not sure if you've heard through the media coverage in America, but Australia has had some really bad flooding and weather.
Best thing is, school has been cancelled tomorrow! Yes! :D
First time I've ever seen school cancelled :)
Yuppie, I know how worries about Cars, Money, School etc affect my dreaming and I suspicion it does with everyone else too, Hope it dont wash you away :P