Thread: The SSILD test. - 30 days.

Yikes... this thread is just getting more and more people participating.

Anyways. I think I woke myself up too much last night. Couldn't get back to sleep after SSILD for about 20-30 minutes.
I had a lucid, but that was most definitely not from SSILD. It was a WILD from the first dream of the night! Not really the most productive LD, I lost lucidity, but I needed to know if I could do it. I got it first try, so I need to ask some people some questions about it.

Day 7

total LDs:15
This is:
11 DILDs
3 WILD
1 DEILD

Week summary!

15 lucids in a week is definitely my record. My record for a month was 18 till this previous month jumped it up to 26, but the last 6 days I used SSILD.

So 15 lucids total. 13 for SSILD, one DEILD unconnected, one WILD unconnected. Very good results. This next week I will keep up my ADA and DDA but then the following two weeks I will only do SSILD. I will compare the results, taking in to account the fact that I am learning how to SSILD better.

@CosmicIron
Do you know if doing a WILD upon initial sleeping is bad for this technique? Does it have no effect? I have thought before that if I can gain awareness at the beginning of the night, I'd be able to keep it all night. My chances of becoming lucid after a lucid are extremely high. It doesn't work like that if my awareness drops in the lucid dream though. :/

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Yikes... this thread is just getting more and more people participating.

Anyways. I think I woke myself up too much last night. Couldn't get back to sleep after SSILD for about 20-30 minutes.
I had a lucid, but that was most definitely not from SSILD. It was a WILD from the first dream of the night! Not really the most productive LD, I lost lucidity, but I needed to know if I could do it. I got it first try, so I need to ask some people some questions about it.

Day 7

total LDs:15
This is:
11 DILDs
3 WILD
1 DEILD

Week summary!

15 lucids in a week is definitely my record. My record for a month was 18 till this previous month jumped it up to 26, but the last 6 days I used SSILD.

So 15 lucids total. 13 for SSILD, one DEILD unconnected, one WILD unconnected. Very good results. This next week I will keep up my ADA and DDA but then the following two weeks I will only do SSILD. I will compare the results, taking in to account the fact that I am learning how to SSILD better.

@CosmicIron
Do you know if doing a WILD upon initial sleeping is bad for this technique? Does it have no effect? I have thought before that if I can gain awareness at the beginning of the night, I'd be able to keep it all night. My chances of becoming lucid after a lucid are extremely high. It doesn't work like that if my awareness drops in the lucid dream though. :/

Based on my observations doing WILD upon initial sleeping has little effect with SSILD. Personally I only did WILD this way in the early days when I was inexperienced and eager to get result. I really suggest you do the same -- get some really good sleep in the beginning without being concerned with LD, and have fun later when you are fully rested. It's both healthy and efficient

I'm new to lucid dreaming and have read a few of these threads. I've been trying the SSILD technique for a couple of nights now and managed to get 1 FA last night. I 'woke up' during the night and my clock said 7:14 but i forgot to do a RC and went back to sleep. Later that night I woke up for real and the clock said about half past 5, so I assume I must have had a FA.

Originally Posted by CosmicIron

Based on my observations doing WILD upon initial sleeping has little effect with SSILD. Personally I only did WILD this way in the early days when I was inexperienced and eager to get result. I really suggest you do the same -- get some really good sleep in the beginning without being concerned with LD, and have fun later when you are fully rested. It's both healthy and efficient

I see, so does WILD upon initial sleep effect how much you actually rest? Can you use SSILD for naps?

I don't remember if I asked the nap question before.

Originally Posted by aquafox12

How in the world are you getting so many??? And how long does it take you to slip into a LD?

I have had 11 through SSILD, but I have had the previous version of SSILD that I trusted in and this one is supposed to be better.

Confidence
Awareness
Self-awareness
Imagination
Dream recall
Dream journal
Dedication
Sleep schedule
Expectation

These are the big parts of lucidity in my mind. But this technique only needs a few of them (as most do). These are:
Confidence
Dream recall
Sleep schedule
Expectation

And these are the things that have been getting me lucid, so when I see a tech that is all my strong points and has worked even before it was perfected, this makes confidence and expectation go up. My dream recall is close to 6 dreams a night before starting this, and my sleep schedule is set. Which yet again raises confidence and expectation. This is just my ideas on the matter. :/

cosmiciron what are your thoughts? (I hope you get paid for this tech or just love sharing lucid dreaming, because you have to answer a lot of questions, haha)

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

I see, so does WILD upon initial sleep effect how much you actually rest?

I have asked this question, myself. I have actually had 8 hour long lucid dreams, and woken fully rested. This is only one account, but I have never seen any evidence to support the idea that lucid dreams interfere with the body or mind's recuperation/regeneration.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

I see, so does WILD upon initial sleep effect how much you actually rest? Can you use SSILD for naps?

I don't remember if I asked the nap question before.



I have had 11 through SSILD, but I have had the previous version of SSILD that I trusted in and this one is supposed to be better.

Confidence
Awareness
Self-awareness
Imagination
Dream recall
Dream journal
Dedication
Sleep schedule
Expectation

These are the big parts of lucidity in my mind. But this technique only needs a few of them (as most do). These are:
Confidence
Dream recall
Sleep schedule
Expectation

And these are the things that have been getting me lucid, so when I see a tech that is all my strong points and has worked even before it was perfected, this makes confidence and expectation go up. My dream recall is close to 6 dreams a night before starting this, and my sleep schedule is set. Which yet again raises confidence and expectation. This is just my ideas on the matter. :/

cosmiciron what are your thoughts? (I hope you get paid for this tech or just love sharing lucid dreaming, because you have to answer a lot of questions, haha)

LOL. If I'm out of job then I will consider packaging this stuff into a DVD and put up a web site which has nothing valuable on it and everything you click on will take you to a page to enter your credit card information. Isn't that a dream come true? Hahaha. Anyway, I like your list. Very thorough indeed.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Yikes... this thread is just getting more and more people participating.

Anyways. I think I woke myself up too much last night. Couldn't get back to sleep after SSILD for about 20-30 minutes.
I had a lucid, but that was most definitely not from SSILD. It was a WILD from the first dream of the night! Not really the most productive LD, I lost lucidity, but I needed to know if I could do it. I got it first try, so I need to ask some people some questions about it.

Day 7

total LDs:15
This is:
11 DILDs
3 WILD
1 DEILD

Week summary!

15 lucids in a week is definitely my record. My record for a month was 18 till this previous month jumped it up to 26, but the last 6 days I used SSILD.

So 15 lucids total. 13 for SSILD, one DEILD unconnected, one WILD unconnected. Very good results. This next week I will keep up my ADA and DDA but then the following two weeks I will only do SSILD. I will compare the results, taking in to account the fact that I am learning how to SSILD better.

@CosmicIron
Do you know if doing a WILD upon initial sleeping is bad for this technique? Does it have no effect? I have thought before that if I can gain awareness at the beginning of the night, I'd be able to keep it all night. My chances of becoming lucid after a lucid are extremely high. It doesn't work like that if my awareness drops in the lucid dream though. :/

How in the world are you getting so many??? And how long does it take you to slip into a LD?

Originally Posted by aquafox12

How in the world are you getting so many??? And how long does it take you to slip into a LD?

It is not impossible my friend. Once you master this technique it will give you multiple LDs every day. Many people on my forum managed to record hundreds of LDs within just a few months. Just keep at it and you will be rewarded.