The SSILD test. - 30 days.

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Originally Posted by ryman

I do it at the start of my sleep to keep me thinking about it before i go to sleep, also it helps me fall asleep faster.

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Ah, I know what you mean.

I want to update something in my day 2, I asked CosmicIron and he explained me that I was really close!
When I was doing the cycles, I fell asleep during second cycle, and continued doing them in FA! That's why it felt so long. Then, the high pitched noise I was hearing, was the phase entrance or something like that. Because I misread cosmiciron's post, I started to concentrate on it and it faded away, I should just passively listen to it, wait as it increases it's volume, and then do a subtle RC.

DAY 3: no success, I used WBTB woke up about 6 hours after goin to sleep. When I attempted to do the cycles, there happened to be way too many distractions; my dog taking up half the bed, my mom downstairs making coffee, etc. ill give it another go tonight. Although with school and such ill probably have to go to bed much earlier so I can do WBTB on time

Day 3

Was going to try this morning, but got distracted trying to do another method. (the Tinnitus one)

Will try again tonight.

Attempts: 2, Lucids: 0, FAs: 0

Day 3
I missed my WBTB timer and slept for a full 11 hours. -.-
Not able to fall back asleep, i got out of bed.

Lucids: 0 FAs: 1

I think I may join in :). I had a LD the other night after doing SSILD, and I believe that this is an effective method. Ill start tonight!

Day 3 (Actually day 4, but at day 3 I felt instantly into sleep and didn't do SSILD)
Finally success! Lucid! Well, it was pretty much nightmare lucid, but still it was cool experience.

I woke up 5 hours after going to bed. I ate a bit of chocolate as I've read it helps with lucid dreaming. I went to toilet and went back to sleep. I did the 5 cycles of ssild. I got into small trance only once. After that... I couldn't fall asleep. It wasn't FA. I did like 5 RCs, because it was weird I wasn't feeling sleepy after 5 hours of sleep. I was lying there for like half a hour. Then, I'm doing the RC, and bam, I'm dreaming. I don't remember if I did the RC in my bed, because after I did the RC, I was standing in the living room at night. I started feeling really dizzy, like I'm passing out. It happened to me a lot of times. It's like anti-lucid mechanism. I got fooled by it many times. I was like, omg, brain, really? But I thought, :shadewink: I must do deild! So as I was leaving dream, I was trying not to open my eyes or move. Actually, I didn't leave the dream. I woke up in FA again. As I did the deild... just wow. Every part of my body was shaking, it was so loud like there is a freaking jet in my room! I was feeling sooo scared, not because of the noises and shit, but I JUST was scared out of nothing. I've never been so scared in my life. Well, everything was happening, but I was getting nowhere. I was like, heeeey, IT'S FA! So I stopped doing this, I opened my eyes, and it was gone. I was like, I'm not gonna do nose plug rc again, because something bad can happen again, like the passing out part. I used completly new and not-known RC: I tried to look up with my eyes, as high as possible. The feeling was unbelievable. I was feeling all that meat in my head and shit, I had my eyes looking completly up. As I moved them more, I was seeing something. Some scene. But I stopped. I was still scared because of that "fake deild". I was too scared to get out of bed. I was just lying there doing this new reality check. I was like, fuck this, I'm outta here. I read somewhere that when you close and open your eyes really fast in a dream, you can get out of it. So I did this. HOPEFULLY, it didn't work. I did the RC again, and said to myself, who's the boss? I decided to get out of the bed. Well, nothing scary happened. I left my room, and wanted to turn on the lights. I clicked the switch, but nothing happened. I was like HUEHUEHUEHUE. I wanted to leave my house, but as I opened the doors, I woke up.

Well... yeeaaah.

How can I teleport from my FA bed into some calm place?

Lucids: 1 FAs: 2

Very neat. I'm definitely going to keep trying.

Day 4
When i came home from work, i decided to try SSILD during a nap. (All my lucids have been while napping)
I used the SSILD technique to try relaxing for a WILD attempt and quite frankly, it worked WONDERS! I was lying there during the reps until i began (feeling) spinning rapidly and that is the furthest i have ever been in a WILD.
I could literally see the dream getting created in front of my eyes, however, i ruined it. I was getting so hyped up on breaking my dry-spell that i woke myself up, suddenly feeling my body laying completely still and my mind getting alert.

After this i decided to go back to sleep.
I then had a dream in which i was flying my RC drone around with some friends while standing on ice in the middle of a frozen lake.
Suddenly my drone crashed on the ice and went right through (it shouldn't, it weights 300g and we were standing on the ice) and that caused me to become LUCID! (YAY!).
However, i woke up again after roughly 5 sec. Catching myself waking up, i immediately prepared myself for a DEILD.
I woke up with my eyes closed and awaited the transition, once again i saw a dream form in front of my eyes and once again, i woke up due to excitement. :(

Now, while this wasn't the most epic history of lucidity, i think it is important to note that i had 1 lucid dream and 2 possible lucids, had i not been so hyped and that is for a 2½ hour nap. <--- (That is my 4 month lucid count in one nap.)

I don't know if it was SSILD or just a spur of luck, but it kinda points in the direction of a working supplementary technique in my opinion.

Lucids: 1 FAs: 1

Congrats Buhl, I had the same problem with excitement during my closest WILD, I don't know if I can ignore this SSILD haha

Day 1:
Went to bed later than planned (A lot later, like 3 hours :P ). Got caught up working on a fun project, and didn't want to stop xD. I did SSILD before I went to bed, and everything was normal that night. I remembered a full dream, which is usual for me. Tonight I will be going to bed at normal time, and doing a WBTB with this, so we'll see then ;D

Day 4

I got very close this morning! I woke up for about an hour, went back to bed, did 4 or 5 repetitions. Now relaxed, I lay there, but was getting bored. So I started doing more repetitions, (I know I wasn't really supposed to, but I was getting impatient), and I started feeling very strange, like when starting to have hypnogogic imagery. After being in this state for a while, trying to keep my excitement down and fall asleep, my attention snapped back when I heard a distinct and sudden noise of a piano key being pressed, like when I'm playing with my headphones on. I knew without a doubt that this was in my mind, since I didn't have headphones on, this has happened other times right before a dream, and I was expecting it more or less, so I jerked myself up immediately and did reality checks. But apparently I hadn't fallen asleep yet.

I think I would have entered a lucid dream if I had waited longer before getting out of bed, because I felt very close, and I only hear noises like that when I'm getting close to one. (which is why I got up, but apparently a bit too soon)

Attempts: 3, Lucids: 0, FAs: 0, HIs: 1

I too am trying SSILD as well during my WBTBs. I'll let you know how it works out and if I get a LD(s) or not! :)

Day 4: no success had no time for WBTB, remembered one drem fragment

Day 2:
Woke up about five and a half hours after I went to bed. Got up, checked my email, and went to the bathroom, and then went to bed to do SSILD. I kept drifting off and forgetting where I was, which is good for this technique ;) . I think I fell asleep while doing the technique because I never remember stopping and getting in my sleeping position. Nothing happened, I just remembered a couple dream fragments when I woke up. I said this before on a different thread, I feel like this would be more effective if my recall was better.

Day 4
Absolutely nothing.
Lucids: 1 FAs: 2

Day 3 wasn't only SSILD. If I didn't do the RCs before falling asleep, I think I wouldn't have a lucid. I was just repeating doing those RCs and I did it in a FA. I think a mantra could help here doing the RC while in FA.

I never used it on its own. I just do it with other things that have already proven themselves as working.

Day 5
Stress at work = no time for dreaming :(

Lucids: 1 FAs:1

Day 5

Finally success!

I had a long and exciting lucid dream this morning, after using this method on its own, with WBTB. (the other nights I had tried to add other things, but I decided last night that I should try it on its own, at least until I have one success with it)

It produced not only a lucid dream, but also two strong false awakenings. I recorded it all here: Lucid Dream 15 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Attempts: 4, Lucids: 1, FA's: 2, HI's: 1

I'm glad that you it worked for you and it gave you a few FAs!

I'm doing this technqiue for the FAs mainly, so it is good to hear it works for at least one person hahaha :D

Nice job Venryx! ;)

Day 5: woke up about 4 hours after going to sleep, stayed in bed awake for a few min, then began doing the cycles, got one or two in before I drifted off, had a very deep vivid dream, not very long, but vivid. No lucids yet though.

Well, I think I need to stop my test, because I'm losing too much sleep, and I'm getting up pretty late to school.
I had a MILD today tho, but it was at the end of my last rem state :S
I said only few times "I'm having lucid dreams" and it worked, lol?
It was pretty long dream and I got lucid at the end of it. It was a dream where I was lacking my pants :D I was going somewhere with my grandpa, then I was in my school having biology, as the lesson ended, the teacher closed the door, and I decided to use some WTF lucid dream induction technique right here. I started to lean on the door of the class with my head's forehead. The technique's point was that when I fall asleep I'll fall through that door. I don't even know this "technique", it was totally random! And then I thought, why would I try to get a lucid dream when I'M IN A DREAM? Hey, wtf? Yes, I'M IN A DREAM! I started looking at my hands calm, and then the dream ended and I woke up, because it was the end of my rem state.

How are you losing sleep? This doesn't require you to lose sleep.

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Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

How are you losing sleep? This doesn't require you to lose sleep.

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Sometimes when practicing techniques that involve WBTB, you can lose sleep. Ive had it happen especially when I have to go to school and I'm waking up at 2 am for WBTB

DAY 6:
no success, woke up around 3am got out of bed used the bathroom, and got a drink of water. I laid back down and could not do the steps without getting distracted several times so I just went to sleep.