Hey all, New to Lucidity

[dreamducky]

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

[Cutterkk]

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.

[ninja9578]

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

[dreamducky]

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 ive been glancing around the forums for a while now just decided to actually join today. [EDIT] I can't seem to find a FILD technique in the tutorial section?!?[/EDIT]

[ninja9578]

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.

[dreamducky]

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 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.