Broke the Dry Spell!

[Kyhaar]

I downloaded this EILD track ("Lucid Remix" from the Audio Aids thread) and put it on my iPod last night. AND, Last night, I had two lucid dreams (albeit short ones)!!! I haven't had a lucid dream in a VERY VERY long time! In the first, the dream started off normal, but then the topic became me trying to tell my mom about the benefits of lucid dreaming (while not being lucid). Then, however, I heard this voice say something like, "This is a dream. You are dreaming." And then it hit me. I tried to stablize, but I fell forward and woke up. In the second, I think I was lucid instantly, but it was a series of false awakenings followed by the nose RC, followed by lucidity, followed by a false awakening, until I lost lucidity altogether. All I can say is.... Woooohooo!

[ShadowOfSelf]

Well done Im intruiged about this EILD track, been thinking of using one for a WILD, will check it out.. did you have it playing on all night, or did you wbtb and play it?

[Kyhaar]

I had it playing all night. I use ambient music to block outside noise to help me fall asleep. I naturally wake up several times a night so my first "wake up" doesn't typically have a dream attached to it, because I don't sleep long enough to enter REM. I hear for WILD you're supposed to sleep for a large chunk of time and then try WILDing, but I don't sleep for longer than 3.5 hour intervals (and if I do, I get groggy). Oh, last night I had a dream in which my brother was asking about the track that was playing on my iPhone (the lucid dreaming track). Gack! I should have become lucid then! I woke up more than usual last night, particularly towards morning. Maybe I need to turn down the volume of the track: it might inadvertently be waking me up.

[ShadowOfSelf]

I see, I have yet to try music playing all night, any recommendations? What do you mean by 3.5 intervals, as in you wake up after 3.5 then go back to sleep and repeat? If so thats normal, everyone wakes up at different times after sleep cycles. Also you must have been in REM otherwise you wouldnt have been able to lucid dream.

[Kyhaar]

Umm... If you just want music to help you sleep, I'd recommend something with a nature-esque background (rainfall, forest, ocean, etc.) that doesn't have any sudden changes (in loudness, tempo, pitch). If you want something to help with lucidity, then you can get the track I'm now using (Lucid Remix) from the Audio Aids stick. Although the 1-hour track (Subliminal Lucid 2.0, I think) from the Audio Aids section is very relaxing, it hasn't helped me lucid dream. I find that it's a bit harder to fall asleep to the Lucid Remix (with echoing words spoken every so often), but it has given me more results. By 3.5 hour intervals, I mean I generally sleep for less than 3.5 hours without waking up in the middle of the night (I'm a light sleeper). Sometimes I wake up after one hour, sometimes two. I almost never sleep solidly throughout the night, but when I do, it's very disorienting. Some people I know find this strange - I guess they sleep solidly. If I've just gone to bed and wake up after an hour, I haven't entered REM yet. I think REM sleep either begins after 1 hour or after 1.5 hours (and it lengthens, but at the beginning of the night, it is short). My lucid dream happened later in the night. I hope that clarifies things.