Hey all, New to Lucidity

Hey fellow dreamers and the likes.
First of all my name is Chris, I'm 15, and I'm from New Zealand.
I've been throwing around the idea of lucid dreaming for about a 2 months or so now, and I've even been using a Dream Journal daily (or atleast attempting to)
and I've even tried inducing dreams, but of course I have not yet succeeded.

I got interested in the idea of Lucid Dreaming after watching the movie Vanilla sky and after looking at the all mighty Wikipedia came across Lucidity.

Just a few quick questions if you will,
What techniques would you recommend for a noobie like myself?
I purchased some B6 50mg suppliments from the local pharmacy and tried a them for two nights, at first 50mg and then 100mg, and noticed small changed in my dreams but nothing substancial. Just that on both nights my dreams were more vivid and easier to recall to some degree.

Basically I really would like to get into lucid dreaming ASAP, but not just rush in head first. So far I've fiddled with a MILD and a WILD, but with the WILD i didnt wake up that night and failed and with the MILD I lost concentration and didn't go lucid.

The problem I have is in a dream i don't do reality checks, im never conscious enough to do them. Although in the dreams it feels as though I'm in control and I can make decisions but really I cannot.

Any suggestions for my next step?

Thanks all, Ducky

I can sort of relate. Lucid dreams are hard to come by. Most of my dreams were DILDs, but I didn't do anything in particular to trigger them.

Give FILD a shot, it's fairly simple. Go to bed, wake up in the middle of the night, make a little movement with two of your fingers until you fall asleep. Check the tutorial section for more info on that.

For DILDs... I may not be the most experienced, but I say it give more time, you'll eventually have one.

Oh, and welcome to the forum.

I like the DILD technique. I always do it after waking up in the middle of the night and going back to bed.

FILD? is that where you let your body fall into sleep paralysis while your still conscious? ill check the tutorials now.

an DILD is Dream INduced Lucid Dreaming and I think that means that you look out for dream signs etc?!?
But the thing is in waking like i do reality checks but they never seem to carry over.

and thanks :D ive been glancing around the forums for a while now just decided to actually join today.

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I can't seem to find a FILD technique in the tutorial section?!?[/EDIT]

I'm not sure what FILD is, but what you just described is the WILD (Wake Induced...) I've never done it, I probably will over the summer when I have time to enjoy it, but I've heard that it works very well.

While I do reality checks fairly often, I've only once actually used them to become lucid, the other times I just noticed something strange and realized it. I still think nothing beats the WBTB technique. On average for the past month or so I have a lucid dream every fourth or fifth night (and tonight should be the night :))

After keeping a dream journal for a few weeks now I noticed something that I never did before. False awakenings happen much more frequently than one thinks, so try performing reality checks immediately after you wake up, you may still be dreaming.

I've actually had a false awakening, where i was in a dream and woke up. and in my dream i then proceeded to love life how that day would have turned out.
This as actually last night :D but I'v had another before.
What I find entertaining is in the dream it was almost an exact account of what happened in the 1st hour of me actually waking up, minus small details.
In my dream I got a package that I had ordered 5 days ago, when I awoke I did too. :D

Hi ducky, welcome ;)

When you did the WILD, you say that you didn't wake up?
As I understand WILDs, they involve not losing consciousness at all when you fall asleep. Perhaps you mean that you tried a WBTB (wake back to bed) and didn't wake up during the night as you intended?

Anyway, it's not unusual for a complete beginner to struggle with WILD and MILD. Most people find it harder to master, as there's quite an element of .. almost an art to it.
Some people are naturals with it, but most of us have to struggle with it for quite a while before it comes right. It varies from individual to individual.

About the DILD's and reality checks - you seem to have the wrong idea here.
It's natural that you won't remember to do reality checks in your dreams at first. You need to keep doing the reality checks during the day, as often as possible. Even be fanatical about it (try not to get put in an asylum though :D)

It takes a few days (usually at least a week) before you notice the effect in your dreams. One of two things will eventually happen:
1) You naturally just notice you're dreaming without even having done a reality check. This is because lucid dreams are on your mind so much, that you noticed it easily.
2) You start doing reality checks in your dreams. You might find that they don't work as expected, in which case you should pick other ones. Always use at least 2 good reality checks. 3 preferable.

Either way, you need to be patient :)

Just an update here, actually I've had both of those.
My 1st LD was due to me being naked in a dream and seeing a clock out of the corner of my eye, neither of these seemed to make me lucid but then i did a reality check by counting my fingers.
But this morning I had what I think is a DEILD where i woke up, and then tried remembering my dreams and then somehow ended up being in a dream and thinking about it beign a dream without reality checks.

yet again, thanks all, Ducky.

I personally find meditating a very important technique in my attempts at a WILD. The only time I was successful was on accident, meditating one night before bed and then falling into SP and then a false awakening. Why do people suggest you get a few hours sleep and then attempt a WILD? I didn't seem to have any problem accomplishing it laying in bed dead tired, after being up all day.

:welcome: to DV! I don't really have anything more to add but congrats on that LD. :goodjob2: