Thread: What type of induction is this?

Never has happened to me before. I have thought about that before, wondering if there was a way to remember thati just fell asleep. But I never do. So you realized in the dream that you were dreaming? Then its probably a dild. But if you transitioned to the dream and just remembered that you are asleep then its possible it was a wild. But I don't really know.

I sometime remember falling asleep in my dream, it happens somewhat, often to me.

It would seem that when trying to WILD with no success, your mind is still set to have a lucid dream, or perhaps you remember your failure in your dream (I mean, that you didn't succeed, no offense meant).

As a natural lucid dreamer I cannot tell what type of induction it is, but it seems to be a DILD, because you did a RC with your waking memory.

I've done it from time to time during my failed WILD attempts. It seems to happen during WBTBs and nap attempts. Sometimes while going to sleep, I'll tell myself that next time I see something it will mean that I'm dreaming, and it's worked on occasion. It's always handy to DILD if a WILD fails.

I've tried different ways to do the WILD technique. First I started by closing eyes and laying absolutely still, hands by my side, and I a ignored all impulses to scratch, move, blink, or roll my eyes too much (this is your brain sending messages to see if you are still awake). I failed and fell asleep.

Next I tried doing this attempt while looking into pitch black and thinking of simple objects such as 2D shapes. My eyes have been watery and it was hard to concentrate so I just shut them. I went back to my first WILD technique and found that these tips and tricks I learned helps me become lucid.

1. Start out your WILD technique and close your eyes but remain conscious.

2. You can remain conscious by imagining simple objects then moving to more complex objects. This tests your consciousness and allows your brain to think a bit:
-Start with 2D shapes (squares, circles, and triangles, or whatever you prefer)
-After imagining several of these, move on to 3D shapes (cubes, spheres, and pyramids)
-After these, try simple natural objects (flowers, rocks, water, dirt, etc...)
-Try 2D complex objects (side of a house, building with all of its windows [in detail], overview of a city)
-Then move on to 3D of these objects (inside of house, inside of office complex, industrial, forest, etc..)

3. After you reach sleep paralysis (cannot move, and chest feels weighted or anchored down), open your eyes and see if you are hallucinating.
-If not hallucinating, you are probably not in sleep paralysis.
-If you are hallucinating, try imagining scenes or settings for your dream (forest, beach, city, futuristic, robust, etc..)
-If hallucinating, you will probably see floating objects. Try MOVING these objects with your mind.

4. After step 3, shut your eyes and keep thinking of your dream. You should become lucid almost instantly and have vivid dreams.

*Now if you wake up in the middle of the night, or early morning like I do, DO NOT go back to sleep. Instead, go in your dream journal and write everything you remember.
If you do not wake up, set your alarm about 5 hours after you sleep.

DO NOT MAKE THESE MISTAKES!
+Always resist impulses (even if you have a crazy itch, dont scratch!) you want your body to think you are dreaming.
+If you are new to inducing your dreams, do not try to control them yet!

Im still new, but when I stopped making these mistakes my dreams became more vivid.

I don't think it was a DILD because nothing in the dream cued me into thinking it was a dream, I simply remembered that I just was in bed. I did the reality check only because that's what everyone says to do. I was already very aware I was asleep. In the second LD I didn't have to do a reality check, I looked at my hands to see what people were talking about when they said thier hands were "distorted".

I also don't believe it was a WILD because I did not go directly from a waking state. The second one also did not involve a failed WILD just prior to it happening; it was a normal night without any waking up to WILD or WBTB.

Maybe it was some other third thing. I guess I'll work out ways to try to recreate the effects and find out what caused it.

Well if you were awake before you induced a dream then this is a WILD. Your second might have been a WBTB technique though I'm not sure from reading your analysis of your dream. In any case, you may want to try to WILD again with the techniques I posted, because your first dream seems to be WILD.

It is also good you are using your reality checks, just remember once you realize you are dreaming, tell yourself to 'explore' the dream, thus keeping you from waking up by making you curious what you can find in your dreams.