Thread: Are there any more convienient LD types?

With waking up in the middle of the night, it doesn't have to be to an alarm clock. If you can train yourself to get up after you wake up naturally during the night, that would work as well. At the same time, keep in mind that waking yourself up is only one part of the process and not always necessary, depending on the person.

Take a look at the reality checks tutorial. Getting into the habit of questioning the world around you when you're awake will trickle over into your dreams and you will be more likely to catch some detail(s) that is/are out of place and could trigger lucidity. Ask yourself if what's going on at this point in time makes sense and if it doesn't, it's possible that you're dreaming.

Dream (re-)entry (DEILD) is another possibility and it worked a bit for me even before I knew what lucid dreaming was. Look into that as well.

As long as you learn how to reality check properly, you should be able to have some very nice DILDs and to control them, just takes a little practice but doesn't require messing around with your sleep schedule at all.

Classic DILD, MILD, and possibly DEILD for when you naturally wake up out of dreams.

If you ever get a chance to sleep in on a lazy weekend, go for some DEILDs. They can be really mindbending and fun. Other than that, try reality checks and logging dream signs as other people have already suggested.

Waking up in the middle of the night doesn't have to be a big production. You don't even have to leave your bed. If you can just train yourself to notice your natural brief midnight awakenings, you can use them to MILD. You wake up several times throughout the night anyways, just to roll over and forget it ever happened.

Reality checks are awesome. For me they are impossible to remember consistently though. Get one of those watches that beeps every hour on the hour. Every time it beeps, do a reality check. When your trained to do so it can occur in your sleep.

By the way, I found that technique a long time ago, I can take no credit for it.

Originally Posted by UnadoptedPuppy

Reality checks are awesome. For me they are impossible to remember consistently though. Get one of those watches that beeps every hour on the hour. Every time it beeps, do a reality check. When your trained to do so it can occur in your sleep.

By the way, I found that technique a long time ago, I can take no credit for it.

I find it's far more effective when you learn to remember them yourself. Your watch probably isn't going to beep in your dream.

Originally Posted by paragon

I find it's far more effective when you learn to remember them yourself. Your watch probably isn't going to beep in your dream.

Thats not quite what I meant. While sleeping you, still will hear the beep. If you are "trained" to react to it unconsciously, if you are lucid you will perform a reality check.