Thread: New to the site. A little about me.

Originally Posted by apfire26

Hello everyone. I just stumbled across this site while doing some research about lucid dreams and OBE's.
I hope to learn a lot here. A co-worker and I have been discussing lucid dreams for a few months now and we both seem to be very interested in them. Over the last few years I've experianced both lucid dreams and OBEs, although I never really new the difference between the two until recently.
Lately I find myself getting off a 24 hour shift in the morning, no longer with a second job, I'm able to lie down in bed when I get home and start my experiance. I seem to have somewhat of a mix between lucidity and out of bodyness most of the time, if that makes sence. I'm going to research more as soon as I'm through typing this.
Anyway....there's a very short summary of myself, I hope to start posting on here a lot. See ya.

P.S. This was my 2nd time introducing myself, I managed to erase my first post, LOL.

Wow! Your really lucky to be able to converse with someone about lucid dreaming, would be a dream of mine... It may even help you to get lucid..Hey!Y not try this...ask your co-worker to tell you to do a reality check everytime you see him...I sure would if I knew my co-worker was into it.

IMJ

Originally Posted by imj

Wow! Your really lucky to be able to converse with someone about lucid dreaming, would be a dream of mine... It may even help you to get lucid..Hey!Y not try this...ask your co-worker to tell you to do a reality check everytime you see him...I sure would if I knew my co-worker was into it.

IMJ

Yeah it is very cool to have a friend with this interest.
I would consider myself an experianced noobie, I have lucid dreams quite often now but I still have a lot of work to do to perfect them. I also have a weird conflict between lucid dreaming and out of body experiances.
When I'm trying........I start off with the vibrations, head noise, and some peralysis, then hovering, and from there it more or less turns into a lucid dream with myself flying around and what not. I need to read up on some things to figure out more about whats goin on.
My buddy/co-worker is not as involved as I am, but its still cool that he's had similar experiances.

To be honest I just lost my will to lucid dreaming...kinda lost the motivation after having no control in them. But I think your post gave me a 'kick' to subtly look into possibilities again. I take it you are using WILD which is a very good technique if one can master it. I'm using DILDs but I believe DILDs are not random as many people think. They can be fixed or programmed in advance which I was able to do sometimes until lately. It just din't work anymore......

IMJ

Did some more reading last night and yes I am using the WILD technique for most of my lucid dreams. I do somtimes have a DILD but I'm less likely to have a one over the WILD.
I've been unsuccesful at having a WILD when I lie down at night for bed. But I can do it 9 times out of 10 when I get off work in the morning and have the house to myself, If I have nothing to do that day I can lie down, usually on my back with a light pillow over my face, and almost instantly become lucid. Although, like I said earlier, It usually starts with a weird out of body type feeling first.

Yes in my experience although I don't normally do WILD..I've had WILDish experiences when I am sleepy. I had a dim light on my desk facing my bed and I decided to use it as a sort of anchor to my current reality when I sleep. As I was drifting off to sleep I focused on the light on the desk then my attention/focus started to shift from the light to the surrounding areas of the room. It was like a daydream that developed from the light and spread to other parts of the room. When I notice that I try to control it but I din't proceed further because I was doing other techniques with the light. It happened everytime I closed my eyes and drifted off..same thing, light on the desk then other parts of the room and I am aware of it. But no SP was experienced only the daydream spinning off from the light. I tired it again when I was not so sleepy I only exhausted my mental power....

IMJ

If I'm not sleepy or tired, I can't sleep at all, much less lucid dream. My mind races way too much. Also, if I've been playing video games or on the computer for too long I usually don't become lucid, my dreams are too wacky at that point.
The very best time for me is right after work. I have not yet experimented with different way to enter into a WILD. The only key thing I do is put a pillow over my face when its daytime outside. That seems to work most of the time, although this morning it didn't.