2nd And 3rd Lucid In Just A Small Nap....

[The_Musician]

Hi, I'm fairly new to DV. I have only been here a few months, but already I have made so much progress. My first lucid dream can be seen in my poorly kept up dream journal. I didnt enter yesterday's increadable lucids, nor the day before's more-vivid-than-normal dreams. I have tried out an assortment of ways to keep your mind focused on dreaming, and ways to attain lucidity once you are dreaming, and I have come across something interesting. I dont need anyone technique to become lucid or to keep my mind focused on dreaming. I just sleep and either have a DILD, or on some strange ocassions, especially when im napping, it will be a full blown WILD. I think what i do before i sleep could be considered MILD, but usually when i actively try to MILD, i either dont become lucid, or i dont sleep. My two questions are these. When i do try to use a LD technique such as WILD, i could be laying there for hours of nothing but intense HI, SP, or none of the above... why is this? And... Does anyone find it just as simple as i have put it? Using no technique only to find that you enter into a dreamscape in the same discription of what makes a LD tech just that? Ex: You go to sleep thinking nothing about nothing, and find that you just entered a dreamscape completly lucid?

[Burns]

Congrats on the LDs! I'm very impressed with the progress you've made. I'm like you, I don't really have to use techniques anymore since I mainly have spontaneous DILDs, although sometimes it's from an accidental WBTB. I can't give you any pointers about WILDing, though, since I've never WILDed in my life - it's just not my thing. It's so cool that you are able to! Keep up the great work!

[Umbrella]

I think I know what you mean. Not that I would say I never use any techniques to induce lucid dreams. I just don't use WILD or MILD. I do try to be aware of reality during the day. This means I look at everything like as if I'd just become lucid, knowing what I'm doing and that I'm doing it, even though I'm awake. This functions as some kind of reality check (I often pinch my nose while doing this as well). Other than that, I just use autosuggestion now and then. Tell myself I'm going to have a lucid dream soon and being confident about it. I used to have 5 lucid dreams a month this way when I was still doing it more actively. However, I'm not naturally skilled at lucid dreaming or remembering my dreams, and so, I'm sure I'd need to master a technique like MILD if I wanted to learn how to induce them at will. Looking at it that way techniques can be very useful. They just take more time if you're not lucky enough to be a natural, and you can have a lot of fun with just DILDs. Now to try and answer your questions: the fact that you might not enter the dream stage in a WILD sometimes probably means you're trying to WILD at night, after going to bed. This does not work well. The technique was designed for using after the first long periods of deep sleep, which means you should try to WILD in the morning after waking up (doing a WBTB) or during the day if you get the chance to take a nap. Like you said, naps especially seem to be good times to induce a WILD, if you can get yourself to fall asleep during the day (I personally can't do it, normally). As for those two lucid dreams you describe; those are WILDs. You just didn't do your best to induce them. Seeing as you went from waking to lucid, it's still a Waking Initiated Lucid Dream. I know my cousin has this too (that's actually how him and me got into lucid dreaming) and you should consider yourself very lucky. I wish it was that easy for me.

[The_Musician]

Oh man looking back, it was a long road. I really felt more like it was luck and determaination than anything. Thanks for the responses though. Thats really weird... I didnt even try to do a WILD. I was really just after a DILD at the most. But even then, i didnt try that hard. The only thing that sucks is trying to recreate that feeling of effortlessness. I also notice when i have accedental WBTB's, but i never get lucid from that. The only three i have had have all been from naps.