Hello, all. This is my first post, and, while I'd prefer not to begin a thread as my first public action, I find my questions to be worthy of it. I am very new to Lucid Dreaming, and while my attempts have failed, I've decided to gather information and try from a new angle.
I have researched into all of the familiar techniques, and after a week of failed WILDs (not getting "in" deep enough, probably due to trying at night), I have settled on a DILD + WBTB technique.
Both methods seem pretty obvious - I simply wake up in 5-6 hours, stay up for a half hour and ponder lucidity, make RCs, etc, and go back to bed. But DILD seems rather unreliable. Is auto-suggestion ("I will dream, I will dream, I will dream"), powerful enough to initiate DILD, or am I simply making shots in the dark? What will make a DILD more likely to work? Am I counting on WBTB to initiate the dream?
Thank you.