Thread: First Lucid?

Nice! WILD is what I am focusing on right now and I have had one lucid so far and just last night slipped into SP for a few seconds til it confused the hell out of me it was weird. But that's great you are showing some progress. I'm like that with writing, I had a dream the other night and wrote a whole page but it's amazing as I wrote I kept remembering more and more. so DJ's are great for me. FILD seems interesting too, would you care to explain how YOU do it?

Considering I have not succeeded with the FILD technique, i'm not sure how much use this information will be to you . I believe the type of LD I had last night was a DILD if i'm not mistaken.

Anyway, the way I have been doing the FILD technique is pretty basic. I have a program on my computer called Easy MP3 Alarm Clock. The beauty of this program is the alarm rings for 5 seconds and stops, so there is no need to get out of bed to turn it off. I also have my laptop plugged in and on 'Power Save' mode, which decreases CPU speed and LCD brightness to 0%. I also have the setting which turns my laptop monitor off after 1 minute of inactivity, but I have sleep mode set to never so that the alarm always goes off. I set this alarm for 4.00am and go off to sleep and try not to worry about it. I find that if I think about it heaps I might trick my body clock into waking me up around that time making the alarm useless. When I wake up from the alarm I try not to move and have been successful in not moving every time when the alarm wakes me up. I then start moving my index and middle fingers ever so slightly up and down. I keep repeating to myself in my head "I will do a reality check in 1 minute" until I believe it has been about one minute. I then do the breath through nose RC and hope for the best.

If it fails, some nights I attempt to do WILDs if I don't have to be up early in the morning. Although the way I have been attempting FILDs is very basic, you asked for it so there you are!

Good luck if you choose to attempt it.