Hiya Searcher! you wanted to know how I'd gone with the tech - well developed the tech in aug and had 12 ld's with it, then in sept I had 13, then in oct I did the tech for 2 weeks and had 6, so over that 10 week period I had a rate of around 3 LD's a week - and I was doing the tech around the same amount (2-3x week, so some nights no LD, some multiple).
In mid oct I stopped doing any active LD'ing tech. Whilst I found getting lucid to be a pretty profound experience I had a lot of other things on my plate and in having read a couple of comments at the time by other LDers I decided just to enjoy my non-LD's more. I had a couple more LD's without doing the tech after that and then faded back to my baseline of zero lucidity. Until I caught your comment, and a night or two later, my daughter woke me up in the night having wet her bed, I did a wbtb and did the tech returning to sleep and got lucid again - so nice to see it still worked.
I'm sorry it hasn't worked for you...and I was thinking about why....and why perhaps other people tech's often don't work well for other people.
Anyway heres my thoughts - a key part of this technique is where I say to myself 'keep looking for the vibe' in the audio loop (I think I described this above, the loop says ' this is a successful electronic reality check, rest and relax, and keep looking for the vibe'). The key bit is the [I]meaning[I] behind the phrase. I spent a week or two with the vibrating device on my ankle with it going off randomly during the day. When it went off I'd do a RC - checking the time on my watch, but I'd also look around and look for any inconsistencies/abnormalities in the environment. Because the vibe was going off relatively regularly during the day (say on a 45min loop) you would often start to get the feeling of when it might start to go off, at those points, before it went off I would start to get more alert, looking around, looking for abnormalities, doing reality checks in advance of it going off. Its important to note, that just doing this during the day never in itself made me lucid, but what it seems to have done is to have created a really strong association (or conditioning) and so when I say 'keep looking for the vibe' I know exactly what this means - it means be on high alert for abnormalities, oddities aka dreamsigns, and the vibe itself. The funny thing is - if I say something different like 'keep looking for the dream' or 'keep looking for the oddity' it feels far less effective. I seem to have made a VERY strong association with this particular phrase and its connotations.
Without having done this practice with the vibe device and the association of the phrase to that activity I would think the phrase itself would be much less effective and perhaps this is why it doesn't work for you. An analogy to this might be Pavlovs dogs. Pavlov got his dogs to salivate to a musical tone - this became a conditioned response. I could tell you to salivate when you hear a musical tone, and you could try but unless you have been conditioned to it I suspect it would have no effect. You would understand the theory, but wouldn't be able to produce the effect.
It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of other successful LDers are essentially trying to transmit how they are succeeding to get lucid but that a lot of their success comes down to some kind of intentional response that has been developed through personal experience and is hard to transmit to others. In particular I'm thinking of MILD, which seems to never have the effect La Berge described for himself for others.
Anyway - the thing I would possibly suggest for my tech, is that you might be able to get the same feeling for the same phrase I use by practicing during daytime with the vibe - this practice like the training of pavlovs dogs, hopefully would condition you so that when you use the phrase it helps switch your brain more into a phase suitable for LD'ing if the underlying conditions are right (eg the increased alertness from a wbtb or miniwbtb).
hope this might be of use cheers T
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