Thread: Finger Induced Lucid Dream (fild)

I have been studying this technique too here is some material i have read on it. namaste


Finger Induced Lucid Dream (FILD)
The FILD technique should be used when you can expect to go straight into a REM dream period. So it’s probably not worth trying this when you first go to bed. Instead set an alarm to wake yourself up during the night, or try the technique before having a nap in the afternoon.

The Technique:
1. First of all just go to sleep as normal, if you can wake up naturally during the night great, if nto set yourself an alarm to go off after about 5 hours. This will make sure you’re at a point in your sleep cycle where you will be able to go directly into a REM period and also that you will still be feeling fairly tired so should have no problem falling back asleep quickly.

2. Once you wake up, the first thing that should be on your mind is the FILD technique. Just relax, and try to go back to sleep exactly how you normally would. The goal here is to get to the point just before you fall back to sleep. Once you've reached this point, begin the FILD technique. This will probably happen very quickly if you still feel tired so don’t wait too long!

3. Now imagine that you are playing a piano using your index and middle finger with one hand. Your fingers are side by side on two keys. Now, press your index finger down, leaving your middle finger up. Next, press your middle finger down, and lift your index finger back up. Repeat this up and down motion.

4. Once you feel you have a comfortable rhythm with this motion, now imagine pressing the keys so lightly that they don't actually go down. (You can practice this on an actual piano or a computer keyboard - you should basically feel your muscles contract, but your fingers should hardly move)

5. Focus on this subtle movement. By directing your focus, you will be able to fall back asleep relatively quickly. Make sure you don’t try to count your finger movements or talk to yourself in your head as this will only wake you up.

6. After about 30 seconds have passed (again don’t count just when you feel it has been about that long), take your other hand, and perform a reality check by pinching your nose and try to breath in. If you can, then you're dreaming!

And that’s all there is to it! The technique works by keeping a part of your conscious mind active through the slight movement and your focus on it, not enough to keep you awake but enough to remember to do a reality check 30 seconds later which should be as soon as you enter the dream.

You can add to the effectiveness of this technique by practicing the movements while awake. Do both the light finger movements combined with a reality check 30 seconds later. This will help build up an association between the two in your brain so it becomes a natural habit to follow through the finger motion with a reality check.

I'm going to try this soon.
When I first found out about false awakenings, I never wanted that to happen because I would probably freak out and wake up.
I'll just have to deal with that, then. XD

lol dont listen to the people telling you to shorten this. Most of the good tutorials are long, anways, so it's stupid just to shorten this because some nobrain can't manage to read a page of text.
Looks interesting, anyhow! I'll try it tonight

I usually go to bed around 3 Am, and im super tired, so I think I'll have that down.

Well this tutorial is... long? Don't think so. I made posts that were LITERALLY 30 times as big on other forums. It's a nice and short tutorial one can zip through within 2-3 minutes, to me it seems to be a pretty effective technique as well, as strange as it did seem to me upon first hearing it. I didn't had any success so far but I felt that using this technic brought me pretty close to a shift of consciousness.

Looking forward to using this technique tonight, hopefully it will give me my first LD.

So. I used this technique last night. I thought, why not, because I pretty much wake up five hours after falling asleep anyway, like clockwork.
Sure enough, last night I woke up. It was a little later than usual, though; the sun was already rising and my cats were making noises in the other room. Anyway, I went to bed and really focused on my fingers after letting myself drift into a state of deep sleepiness. I tried a first RC and nothing happened. But I continued trying just once (against the poster's wishes, I'm aware) and I think it actually worked! My left hand, the one that wasn't tapping, started to feeling REALLY tingly and numb. And my vision went a little whitish and I became warm. I got really excited, hoping it was working, but I wanted to hold out a little more. (The poster said full body tingles, so I waited for them.) But something happened and it broke me out of it; I think my boyfriend moved (but don't tell him that, he's be disappointed if he thought it was his fault.)
But I really think I got close last night, so I'm definitely trying again!

Oh, this seems really easy (compared to WILD and some others..), I can't wait to try it tonight . Maybe this will do the trick and get me my first LD.

Hey I've FILDed before and I love the technique! its just that it is somewhat unclear? anyone up to revise this?

..does this bypass the hallucinations? I want to LD on command (or pretty much on command), but WILDs are a no-no for me as my hallucinations tend to be very frightening and regularly scare the dream-state right out of me. I'm paranoid and have a mild form of Bipolar Disorder (nothing too serious, don't worry, I'm not some silent murderer or something lol), just saying that I already have an altered state of mind to begin with. My hallucinations are the reason I sometimes simply fear the process of falling asleep, so if I can bypass the hallucinations, I'm desperate to try it!

I think this method completely skips the hallucinations. I will give it a try. I two am scared of hallucinations hence I avoid traditonal wilds. This is somewhat a wild but not nearly as scary imo.

I've tried this method, and thought I'd failed so I went to sleep as normal, experienced some mild hallucinations (colour swirls and some shapes but that was it, no sounds due to *I think* music playing in the background) and realised I was having a WILD (might have been a FILD without me knowing, how sneaky! ) so I just let the colours and shapes be and boom I woke up, did a RC and I was in fact dreaming

For you guys who forget what to do when you wake up i just had a stroke of genius! (At least if you have an ipod) Get the 12,24 Alarm Clock from the app store and set the alarm for an auto snooze after 10 seconds. Record yourself saying Do a FILD and then set that as the alarm. Problem Solved... I think. Im trying that tonight.

..are you telepathic or something? I was just saying to my friend (irl) that I keep forgetting to do a FILD when I wake up in the middle of the night XD

Originally Posted by MissLucy

..are you telepathic or something? I was just saying to my friend (irl) that I keep forgetting to do a FILD when I wake up in the middle of the night XD

Only on Mondays...

Lets call it a CAN-FILD

I use music to make me conscious when I happen to wake up between dreams, not an actual alarm.. ..because those moments are hard to catch, and I wouldn't want to ruin a perfectly good Lucid Dream by breaking it off by a badly timed alarm ^^;

FILD works wonders with me getting me into SP, then completing WILD. Its worked about 70% of the time I try, then from there the LD occurs.

I do caution: this produced 2 LDs for me so far, both started out in FAs, but thats probably because its an incredibly vivid WILD. Theres no FILDing without WILDing. If you can get over your fear, the rewards are breath-taking.

Originally Posted by Djenriquez07

FILD works wonders with me getting me into SP, then completing WILD. Its worked about 70% of the time I try, then from there the LD occurs.

I do caution: this produced 2 LDs for me so far, both started out in FAs, but thats probably because its an incredibly vivid WILD. Theres no FILDing without WILDing. If you can get over your fear, the rewards are breath-taking.

..actually, I think that's what happened to me too, only I didn't know I was going to have to WILD after FILD. Good thing my intuition did it spontaneously for me

I had my first LD using this technique but it was more dild because I fell asleep and just appeared in my room and did a reality check and was dreaming

I'd call that a FAlse Awakening, not a DILD, because you induced it while awake. It was your intention to have a lucid dream. Congrats, btw! I had my first induced lucid dream using this method too ^^ I'm now comfortably WILDing, though!

Do you experience sleep paralysis while doing this? I hope not as much as WILD. . . oh, and does it matter if you open your eyes for a while when you wake up? I have a terrible memory, so I'm thinking of pasting a note to the ceiling for me to see.

I tried this attempt three times all resulting in a fail.

Attempt 1: Thursday night
I had insomnia this night, so I had barely enough time to get into REM.
Im not sure if this counts as a legitimate attempt.

Attempt 2: Friday night
I woke up, but I forgot how to turn off my alarm for 10 minutes so I was just sitting there thinking "wat i do"
So this wasn't a legitimate attempt either.

Attempt 3: Sat night ( last night )
I tried , and it was normal, but I just lay there tapping my fingers and I then RC'ed in like 1 minute but it still never happened so I kept trying at it but still. My alarm was at a normal time, it was at 6:30 and fell asleep at 2 or so... So I tried again at 7:20 but still no luck.

Well I tried it last night with a success (2 LDs) I went to bed at 1.30, set my alarm to 05.30. Woke up when the alarm went off, I didn't move at all. My hand was under my pillow. I just began doing the finger movements, just focusing on them. After a minute later I experienced that usual shift I feel when I WILD. By the time that happened I already knew I was there, thus I didn't even do an RC. I just got out of the bed eyes closed and tried to gain my vision. After that I flew out of my window.

I think and I'm really sure of that, this method by itself induces FAs. So do an RC no matter what. My second LD blew my mind because of that. Not the dream itself but the transition to it. I woke up naturally at the morning. I began doing the finger movements and I was sure I was awake. I didn't feel anything, but I wanted to do an RC no matter what. I did it and it worked. I was shocked because I was pretty sure that I was awake.

So far so good

Second try, 3 LDs. By the way this method also broke my dryspell.