Thread: Finger Induced Lucid Dream (fild)

I have been Trying FILD for the last 2 weeks with no results...(!!!!!!!&#33 ;!!!!!&#33

Does anyone have some KEY POINTS about his method I should be more precise with???

i posted this on another thread and no one ever answered me...

i WANT to be able to FILD so much, but when i wake up, i'm never tired enough where i will fall asleep in 10-30 seconds (one guy was saying it happens in 1-3 seconds... i can't even fathom this). i've tried setting my alarm clock at 3, 4, 4.5, 5 hrs..... nothing. anyone have any suggenstions? anything i can do to make myself SO tired when i wake up that i'll be able to fall asleep fast enough to FILD?

or should i just forget this method and try other things?

Also tried this last night with complete success first time round!
It was interesting what happened when my vision went blurry, So I spinned round and my vision went into a weird 3d. I shouted vivid (or something similar) and it went back to normal. Anybody else experienced anything similar?[/b]

First off, I'll say that I have had success with this method every time I've done it. It's definately a keeper in my book-- tried it five times, and was rewarded with five lucids of varying degrees of control and length. As to the seeing blurry bit-- the same thing happens to me. I actually usually have a pretty hard time opening my eyes in the dream to begin with, and once I have them open everything is blurry for a while. It usually clears up after a few moments, but-- yes, it's happened to me as well.

I have a quick question, when playing the piano in your mind

should you be on your back with your arm stretched up? be comfortable with your arm in a relaxing position.

should your eyes be open?

I keep trying but I'm never tired enough, then when I am I forget to do it an fall asleep.

-Hargarts I wish I could find you in my dreams and give you a crazy present the size of the Earth. I cannot find words to express my thanks for you..
I had my first lucid dream because of this method lAsT nItE it was crazy aHaHaHAhAh
.I remember waking up in middle of nite & i began playing my invisible piano. -I cannot keep from laughing & my heart is beating as Im describing it to you it was so crazy I started spinning amazingly fast like I was in a Whirlpool black hole. It happened so so fast i was in a dream looking at Myself in a mirror inside some elevator. the elevator was all made out of mirrors & sadly I forgot most of it because I fell asleep after I had the dream, but who KAres I had a lucid!! My lucid was amazing I could never have had one I doubt without reading your amazing faQ about FILD.
thank you Hagart-- you have given me my 1st lucid i cannot wait to have another one tonite.!.

Hargarts,
I do believe you are on to something here.
The first night I tried this, the results were almost instantaneous. I heard a freight train sound and got sucked into a lucid dream. Only problem is I didn't open my eyes and I think I tried spinning to change scenery, but my eyes weren't open and I woke up again or lost lucidity. Anyway, I'm going to try it again. I am certain that it works.

And hello to all here on the forum. I'm a newbie and have been trolling here for nearly two years. I had my first lucid because of you guys.

I had to post, because this finger technique is AWESOME!

L~

WOW! It worked - first technique I have tried that has given me an LD. Easy to do - like a WILD
but without the side effects I am going to keep trying it each time I wake up in the early morning
and I hope I can get good at it so I can have LD's regularly. I didn't wait for 30 seconds to do the
RC though I just waited until I felt the entering an LD sensations I have in my body everytime I
enter an LD - so rather than worrying about timing it is more reliable for me - cos when I feel it
I know I am there I can just focus on the finger moving. I found that thinking the word 'school'
as I was moving my fingers meant that when I appeared in my LD I was outside my old school.
I am going to try to use a 'locator' word each time I try FILD and see if I can use it to start my
LD's in a pre-decided place each time I will report back

See Ya,

Namaste

I like, is nice!...

Originally Posted by Lucidalicia

And hello to all here on the forum. I'm a newbie and have been trolling here for nearly two years. I had my first lucid because of you guys.

I had to post, because this finger technique is AWESOME!

L~
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I think you mean "lurking" and not trolling - Trolling is something very bad. But yes, welcome.

Sorry if this was mentioned in one of the earlier pages ( I didn't read the middle pages), but has anyone had a good FILD while sleeping on their sides?

Thanks in Advance,
Bryan

Originally Posted by HockeyIsLife

Sorry if this was mentioned in one of the earlier pages ( I didn't read the middle pages), but has anyone had a good FILD while sleeping on their sides?

Thanks in Advance,
Bryan
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I had 2 in one night on my side

Originally Posted by TweaK

I think you mean "lurking" and not trolling - Trolling is something very bad. But yes, welcome.
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Indeed, lurking is what I meant!




I need to get my forum lingo straight.

Originally Posted by Jin

I just let my lucid dreams come to me. Or I go out and look for them. They're certainly not under my bed, that's for sure!
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the only thing i find under my bed is the boogie man!!

I tried this last night, I was lying on my left side and when I started feeling really sleepy I started playing my invisible piano. I started to feel some intense warmth and tingling on my left side, and after about 30 seconds I did an RC but I wasn't dreaming. , I did this twice more, and it never worked. Can anyone tell me if I didn't do something right? Or tell me what I can do to improve, thanks.





Cheers, ViSions

I hvaen't tried FILDing yet but I have a few worries. My alarm seems to wake me quite violently would this affect FILDing much. Help would be appreciated.

I read about this method and I was exited to see if it would work, but last night, just two hours into my sleep, i had a lucid dream before i could even wake up to try the method. It just goes to show how powerfull a tool it is to just think about lucidity before sleep.

I hvaen't tried FILDing yet but I have a few worries. My alarm seems to wake me quite violently would this affect FILDing much. Help would be appreciated.[/b]

I believe so yes. FILDing requires that you are extremely drowzy so you can fall asleep again within several seconds. If your alarm wakes you up too much so this can't be accomplished, then I think you should consider to change your alarm somehow.

Damn, because if it's not loud enough I turn it off in my sleep and have no memory of doing so the next day. Anyone have any ideas to help me?

that's odd . Try changing your alarm sound?

I know it's off topic but anyone notice the large amount of guests viewing this topic eachday, is there some kind of huge offsite link?

I tried FILD last night but it wasn't a dream... I then set my alarm but the problem was the alarm kind of made me move so I was awake!

it's either a buzzer noise that really shocks me awake or the radio which doesn't do so and I sometimes sleep through

I tried this last night and it worked for the first time! I did the nose RC as you suggested and it worked! Unfortunately everything was black (when your eyes are closed you see black) and I didn't know what to do. I knew I was supposed to visualize my room but I didn't. When the RC works and everything is black what am I supposed to do?

Thank you in advance

Hey i found that using tactile movemovent it is very easy to induce fild.

1. When u wake up petend you are climbing down a rope "feel" it but you dont have to necessarly "visualize" it.
2. This will put you in a trance in about 10ish secs and just simply keep doing it (doesnt require much concentration).
3. Do this until you feel your breath rate change(indicating you are at border of sleep) rapidly and i mean You will feel a difference and often might hear a one tone snore (snoring for like a sec). THEN do fild.

Takes like a couple secs to do.