Thread: The SSILD test. - 30 days.

I see. I just go to bed earlier. Losing 30 minutes isnt too bad if you are getting 8 hours.

I agree, but sometimes it is tough to get to bed earlier when your sleeping schedule hops around like mine. I work on friday and saturday nights until about 11. This throws off my normal sleep schedule of 9pm-6am. Then by sunday night I am trying to go back to the original sleep schedule to fit in the WBTB. Can get a little tedious, but I plan to stay committed to this test. I also plan to test other techniques in one or two month intervals after this month, if anybody is interested in joining me.

Even waking up for a 5 minutes can destroy your delta-state sleep, where your body regenerates.

Gotcha. Keep at it. I work at 730 from mon-fri, so a good sleep schedule should be easy. But holy crap december sucked for sleep schedule. Everyone wanted to hang out late. I got back on a good sleep schedule for January though and plan on staying on it forever.

9-6?! You get 9 hours every night? I can't sleep past 8 hours anymore because I wake up at the end of every sleep cycle and at hours 6,7, and 8. I can't get back to sleep after that.

@MrOMGWTF your avatar and your name go together so well.

Yea everyone hanging out late can be a problem with my sleep schedule as well, and well I dont usually get 9 hours, I just try to get to bed around 9 because it takes me a little while to fall asleep.

There should be this kind of test for techniques like WILD, MILD, so they can show the success over time. It'd be really helpful. I might do MILD, because you don't need to wake up at night. What do you think?

Read ETWOLD by Stephen Laberge. He talks about this. He is "the lucid doctor". I actually do MILD, WILD, WBTB, DEILD, SSILD, and just straight up DILD. Like mastermind says "use the right tool for the moment."

Day 6
Only got 3½ hours of sleep due to work overflow. x(
Tomorrow i will try to get back to my normal sleep schedule and continue with the SSILD testing.

Day 6

No time for another WBTB this morning. Will continue the full 30 days, by the way.

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

Day 7

Fantastic!

I had my first OBE, another lucid dream, and 4 more false awakenings.

I recorded it all here: Lucid Dream 17 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I'm really starting to think this method has something significant going for it.

Attempts: 5, Lucids: 2, OBE's: 1, FA's: 6, HI's: 1

Not sure what day I'm on. Last night I got up for a bit and did SSILD, but I fell asleep pretty much immediately. Not sure what I'll be doing tonight either.

Day 7: no time no success. Will definitely have time tonight tho and throughout weekend

Day 8: Ok so I went to bed around 2am, various reasons, then woke up around 6 for a WBTB, being as tired as I was I couldn't get far in the steps before I drifted off. However I drifted into a very vivid dream. Here it is.

I walked up these church steps to the front of this church(I live next to a church) seen a few my friends on the front steps. One of them being a girl I have the hots for but after waking up could not remember who she was what she looked like or anything. But we were all talking about how the church is haunted, so we decided to go inside and look around. After exploring the spooky basement and finding nothing out of the ordinary, we proceeded to the attic. The attic was filled with random junk. It had a giant pool table in the center of the room and had 2 beds next to it. There was a wall in the center of the attic that split it into two rooms. While on one side, I randomly became lucid, for some reason I tend to announce that I'm lucid or tell my fellow dream characters that "we are dreaming." I had announced we are dreaming and began rubbing my hands together for clarity, it was very stable, I walked up to the girl I was with looked in her eyes for a couple of seconds before we started to make out, it then got quite imlntimate and I took advantage of the fact that their were beds in the attic lol. I woke up soon after that.

Day 8 (Yesterday)

No results this attempt.

Attempts: 6, Lucids: 2, OBE's: 1, FA's: 6, HI's: 1

Day 7, 8 and 9

Have had a long weekend with little to no time for dreaming.
Friday i journaled 4 FAs in a single morning though. O_O

Lucids: 1 FAs: 5

Day 9: nothing, went to bed late and really tired, didn't even remember a fragment.

Day 10

No time, no attempt, no result.

Attempts: 6, Lucids: 2, OBE's: 1, FA's: 6, HI's: 1

Day 9 (Yesterday)

No time, no attempt, no result.

Attempts: 6, Lucids: 2, OBE's: 1, FA's: 6, HI's: 1

Day 10: nothing, no time.

Day 11

Another lucid, and four more false awakenings.

Here's the account: Lucid Dream 18 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Attempts: 7, Lucids: 3, OBE's: 1, FA's: 10, HI's: 1

I forgot to mention. You guys should put how many lucids you have per month so that at the end of the 30 days you can compare.

That's a good idea, to see their effects. The problem is that the amount of time I spend on lucid dreaming changes, so with such a small pool of dreams, it's hard to get reliable data. Also, I usually use more than one technique when I fall asleep.

But I will eventually go back through the records, and put together some sort of table, to understand how the different techniques worked for me, the simplest being the success rate of each technique combination. But I don't think it'll be very useful until I have more attempts/successes/data, so for now I'm just recording more.

Instead of keeping track of days, I'll just talk about what's going on for me instead

Using more than one technique is no problem if you only add SSILD one month and look at it versus the previous month.

I agree. The more LDs I have the better my charts work.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Using more than one technique is no problem if you only add SSILD one month and look at it versus the previous month.

The problem is that my personality is to try everything, and I want to try them all at once, so I end up mixing in all sorts of other techniques in an attempt to shallowly test lots of others while deeply testing the main technique. So the results are still getting jumbled, even if comparing "with SSILD" to "without SSILD", since the secondary techniques change so much.

I know it might not be the best way to do it, but my impatience makes it almost "boring" to do it one at a time for a month. (I'm searching for the "perfect" method, which will eventually allow me to have lucid dreams at will--even though I know the main thing is persistence. I have a childlike hope that there must be a way that just works, for nearly everyone, nearly every time. Actually, that's a large part of all this testing, I have a very strong pull towards finding the "silver bullet" in things, even when there probably isn't one.)