A Self-Introduction, and a simple question.

[[VJGX]]

Hello, I am [VJGX]. I am very new to the concept of Lucid Dreaming. I recently found out about it a few weeks ago, and have been reading up a lot on these forums. I have finally gotten the confidence to try and become part of this community, and I hope this involvement will help my LD abilities. Ever since a few weeks back, I have been trying to use a couple different LD-assisting mp3 files to help me speed up the process. These include: A Hemi-Sync file involving rain, a relaxation process, self-affirmations, and help with recall and an mp3 found on here for LD induction, which involves the repitition of sentences involving dream awareness. Mostly, I have been using the latter one while trying to go to sleep, with no immediate noticable changes. The reason why I've been using these before/during bedtime are because I don't have the time or readiness to set an alarm to wake me up a few hours after falling asleep. Fortunately, though, there have been two times during which I woke up around 5-6 hours after going to sleep, by random coincidence. 1. I remember 3 dreams, fairly clearly, after waking up. I wrote them down, then went back to bed. I went in and out of the sleep state, and ended up in a dream involving my mom speaking in Japanese, which she doesn't know. Slowly and unwillingly, my consciousness kind of moves into this, and I try the nose RC. Seeing that I am having my first somewhat lucid dream, I try moving, but immediately wake up. This dream was anything but vivid, so I may have been having a normal dream about lucid dreaming... 2. I wake up, not remembering enough to write down anything. I go back to sleep, and yet again I find myself in a dream, but this time, it is without any form of dream sign. Everything except the clearness (which was higher than last time) was perfectly normal, yet I still realized I was dreaming by doing a nose RC. I slowly move my hands around while lying in my bed (where the dream started), looking at them a bit, but when I slowly try pulling my body out of bed, I wake up. Now, I consider these two occasions good signs. Should I, or should I not? Now for my simple question: Is there any good way of inducing a Lucid Dream that doesn't involve waking up during the middle of the night? I have been looking around, and it seems to me like the HIT technique may be a good idea. Thanks for your help!!

[icedawg]

Hey, Although there are different methods of inducing a lucid dream, the simplest method (i.e. just willing yourself to have one) does not involve waking yourself up to actually have the LD; instead, you wake yourself up so that you REMEMBER your lucid dream. We have many dreams during the night, and we start forgetting the previous dream quite readily after it ends, thus to remember it well you usually need to wake up during it. Therefore the aim is to force yourself awake during your lucid dream so that you can remember it, otherwise you'll likely forget almost all of it by morning. To do so you can set your alarm clock using approx. 90 minute intervals--I didn't quite get your reasoning for not doing this--or better yet, just convince yourself while falling asleep that you will wake up during your lucid dream. The MP3's you mention likely help induce lucid dreams, and unless they include a mantra along the lines of "I will awake during my dream and remember everything" they are not going to help you awake, thus again you'll likely forget any successful attempts at lucid dreaming. Personally I advocate just reiterating the appropriate phrases to yourself over and over while laying in bed--without any recordings or devices--but it's up to you. Anyway, it sounds to me like you've already had some accomplishments since your will is carrying over into your dreams. You just need to keep trying.

[Howie]

WELCOME VJGX <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\\"&#091;VJGX)</div> \"Now for my simple question: Is there any good way of inducing a Lucid Dream that doesn't involve waking up during the middle of the night? I have been looking around, and it seems to me like the HIT technique may be a good idea. Thanks for your help!! [/b] Some other techniques you may want to consider is A DILD, a dream initiate lucid dream and a WILD. Which in my opinion is another form of the HIT technique. It is just a matter of how you get there. The Tutorials has a ton on information on all of the technique and more.

[Vex Kitten]

Welcome VJGX. I'm a new member too. Just thought I'd drop in and say hi. Wish I could help with your question but I'm just not experienced enough. Good luck with your dreams. Cya around, hopefully. ~Vex~