The SSILD test. - 30 days.

**PennyRoyal** · 11-24-2013 06:54 PM

When I first started doing SSILD, I think the excitement of having a lucid made it difficult for me to fall asleep. After the first week I was falling asleep pretty easily before I could finish the cycles. I do 2-3 fast cycles that I know I can complete, then I'll move onto doing slower cycles until I pass out. But any way, this tech seems to really do the trick for me. I havn't been lucid in a dream since Labor Day weekend (September) - I had two last night.

Night 1 - No FA, 2 Lucid.

Total: 1 Night, 0 FA, 2 Lucid

Journal Entry

**PennyRoyal** · 11-25-2013 05:12 PM

Night 2 - No Fa, No Lucid

Total: 2 Nights, 0 FA, 2 Lucid

**ZippLord47** · 12-02-2013 06:54 PM

I usually have 75-80% success with SSILD it s my favourite method

**Sensei** · 12-02-2013 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by ZippLord47

I usually have 75-80% success with SSILD it s my favourite method

So with this you have about 5 and 1/2 LDs a week?

I don't really use, I use my own variation of SSILD. Taking the parts that make me lucid more often. Dropping what is useless for me, and adapting it all together into my own technique.

**LouaiB** · 01-23-2014 09:36 AM

I think I'll do a 30 day test. Just gotta figure out if I can do an hour WBTB(It's much better for my awareness. I would easily fall asleep and be more aware, or it doesn't work that way? Is it just the effect of the long WBTB?)

**Zyangur** · 01-24-2014 04:34 AM

Going to start this tonight. Ill stay updated with my results

**LouaiB** · 01-24-2014 11:11 AM

Attempts: 1
FA:0
Lucids:0

**Denholm** · 01-25-2014 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

I don't really use, I use my own variation of SSILD. Taking the parts that make me lucid more often. Dropping what is useless for me, and adapting it all together into my own technique.

Can you expand on this? I'm curious as to what you find most helpful...

**Sensei** · 01-25-2014 04:41 PM

Denholm! Check the link in my signaute! It has all I do in it. Not sure if I answered that questions, but it should be under SSILD if you CTL + F it on the page.

**Zyangur** · 01-27-2014 05:17 AM

Day 1 and 2
Lucids: 0
FA: 0

Last night was technically Day 3 but I forgot about doing SSILD. For the first two days, I fell asleep in the first cycle of it, so I need to stay up later. I think i'm going to skip it tonight too unless I wake up naturally because I'm pretty tired and need to catch up on sleep because school...

**BoxcarRacer** · 01-27-2014 06:44 AM

Wow, there's so much success in this thread, I have to try it too. I'll start posting my progress here tomorrow too. Wish me luck!

Day 1
Attempts: 0
LDs: 0
FAs: 0

Last night I tried to wake up at 3 am to attempt SSILD, but I fell asleep before I was able to start.

**LouaiB** · 01-28-2014 06:06 PM

I have to bail guys! I found that MILD+WBTB is perfect night exercises for me sooooo.........

**BoxcarRacer** · 01-29-2014 02:35 PM

Day 2

Attempts: 1
LDs: 0
FAs: 0

Last night I woke up at 3am, went to the bathroom, drank a glass of apple juice and then went back to bed to do the cycles. During the slow cycles I noticed that I was getting distracted a lot by random thoughts, but I finished the cycles. After that I tried to fall asleep, but it took a while and I had no lucids.

**MarineRecon** · 01-30-2014 03:02 AM

Hey I'm back from a long hiatus and will finally have a consistent sleep schedule! Right before I left I was experimenting with this method so that is where I will pick up again. Last night I tried this for

Day 1

Attempts: 1
LDs: 0
FAs:0

I woke up after 4 hours of sleep. Was too lazy to actually get out of bed for WBTB and fell asleep prematurely. Will try again tonight with hopefully better results!

**LouaiB** · 01-30-2014 12:48 PM

Ok I couldn't WILD so I tried SSILD last night.
I know I stopped, but I got a result so I thought it would be good to post here:
1 attempt, 1 FA, 0 LD

**MarineRecon** · 01-30-2014 10:12 PM

Day 2

Attempts: 2
LDs: 0
FAs: 0

So I tried again last night aaannnddd I didn't get outta bed. I have no idea my logical brain just shuts off. Its not really due to laziness but I think I will change the alarm tone to trumpets to get me going. Also forgot to RC after I tried and I had a hard time falling back asleep so that might have possibly been a FA but I'm not positive though!

**Memm** · 06-30-2014 06:21 AM

I like the idea behind SSILD so I'm going to do this 30 day thing.

Started 4 days ago but I'm only going to count from yesterday because the conditions for the other two days were horrible and I doubt any technique would have worked.

Day 1:

No difference, dreams same as usual.

Day 2:

- SSILD induced WILD - very smooth and fast transition into a dream, as a WILD technique I would rate 10/10
- Other dreams same as always no change in vividness, content or anything else.

Attempts: 2
WILDs: 1
DILDs: 0
FAs: 0

**Memm** · 07-02-2014 07:20 AM

Day 3:

No effect.

Day 4:

Bad night, couldn't sleep properly after WBTB, stayed up for a couple of hours and then went back to bed, fell asleep but SSILD had no effect.

Attempts: 4
WILDs: 1
DILDs: 0
FAs: 0

**SnorlaxDreamer** · 07-02-2014 11:53 PM

Sounds like a good experience. I'll keep an eye out for this, and probably participate myself. I'll report in!

**Memm** · 07-04-2014 06:09 AM

Day 5:

No effect.

Day 6:

I kept falling asleep at the start of the SSILD, but I think this is actually a good thing, just need to strike a balance now between alert enough to do SSILD and sleepy enough to actually fall asleep in whatever sense-awareness state of mind SSILD tries to achieve.

Attempts: 6
WILDs: 1
DILDs: 0
FAs: 0

**Memm** · 07-06-2014 11:29 AM

Day 7:

Nada. I'm a bit disappointed so far, my dreams are exactly the same as always, I expected at least one FA. Starting to wonder if the FAs are just because people are told the technique is supposed to produce them and it becomes a placebo effect. Oh well, will keep trying.

Day 8:

Got ~4 hours of sleep so not a good night.

Attempts: 8
WILDs: 1
DILDs: 0
FAs: 0

**Memm** · 07-08-2014 08:14 AM

Day 9:

Don't think this was a good night, I had a half-dream (it was around 3.5 hours of sleep so it was half-thoughts / half-dreaming) where I was dreaming/thinking about SSILD.

The rest of the night was uneventful.

Day 10:

Missed a couple of opportunities for SSILD because I fell asleep too quickly, the two biggest killers of the technique seem to be falling asleep before really getting started and not being able to fall asleep from doing too many repetitions.

Attempted Nights: 9
Total Attempts: ~15
Average Attempts per Night: ~1.6
WILDs: 1
DILDs: 0
FAs: 0

PS: fixed my attempts count to be more precise about what I'm doing.

**Memm** · 07-10-2014 07:46 AM

Day 11:

Tried SSILD once this night but I was quite sleepy so it was half-arsed, had some normal dreams.

Day 12:

Not much sleep so not a good night for this.

Attempted Nights: 10
Total Attempts: ~16
Average Attempts per Night: ~1.6
WILDs: 1
DILDs: 0
FAs: 0

Last few days haven't been too good sleep wise, will try to resume with more energy tomorrow!

**Memm** · 07-12-2014 07:41 AM

Day 13:

I was entering a WILD from SSILD but I decided to stop that and turned over to go to sleep and see if I could manage to get a DILD instead. Dreams were normal the rest of the night, it doesn't seem like SSILD is having any effect on my dreams whatsoever. =[

Day 14:

Fell asleep during WBTB so no SSILD today.

Attempted Nights: 11
Total Attempts: ~17
Average Attempts per Night: ~1.5
WILDs: 2
DILDs: 0
FAs: 0

**Memm** · 07-14-2014 03:31 PM

Day 15:

Not much sleep no attempt.

Day 16:

Woke up from a really long dream (probably due to the lack of sleep the night before), feel asleep after about 2 cycles of SSILD, nothing to note the rest of the night.

Attempted Nights: 12
Total Attempts: ~18
Average Attempts per Night: ~1.5
WILDs: 2
DILDs: 0
FAs: 0