Hello there,

I have a theory I'm going to test out and I thought I would share the process and results here. I've been researching lucid dreaming for a few years off and on. Ever since I have had no lucid dreams. Imagine that. As interesting as experiencing lucid dreams are --I've had several spontaneous experiences thru out my life-- I also have a desire to discover something that tickles the initiation nerve of the phenomenon it self. Perhaps that explains why I no longer have them; perhaps I'm delusional. Whatever the case is, this is my 2nd stab at experimenting with a new kind of lucid dreaming initiation aid. (the first was with another forum and was called "LTT" for "Lucid Thinking Technique")

Okay, the idea here is not so much an induction method (unless it is a variation of DILD), but more of an extended practice of dream recall that will initiate lucidity while aware in a dream. Thru practicing self-awareness techniques, mindfulness, and ADA-like activities, I've found my dream recall has become more vivid. Which is great, actually. However, I feel that the thing missing in my dreams to initiate a 'DILD' is that I just don't have that connection in my mind that a train jumping into the air is obviously a dream experience. It's sort of like a common sense thing that just evades my deductive powers while running around sappy in my dream world.

So, this morning I just started reviewing my dream as I woke up and thought to myself, "Well that was obviously a dream element. That is nothing like waking life. That's nothing like waking life. I don't even know that person. That person is three provinces away and would never act that way..." and so on until I realized I had turned a page in my mind. I wanted to try doing this every morning so that my brain would have more neural pathways that led to the discernment between 'this is normal' and 'this is obviously a dream'.

And here we are.

The technique I'll be trying goes like this:

1) Wake up
2) Vividly recall the most prominent dream actively in the imagination
3) Rationally point out elements in the dream that differ from waking reality
4) Feel the neural networking will aid in the success rate of a DILD

That's it.

An example of 3) would be like if a dream had: "I'm walking thru the snow talking to my brother and a jellyfish floats by.."
As I'm vividly re-experiencing this in my imagination, I can look at the snow and realize that in waking life it's summer so it's obviously a dream element. I can look at my brother and realize that he lives three provinces away...obviously a dream. I can look at a jellyfish...floating?...and remember jellyfish don't float in the air and it must be a dream.

So that's what I'm going to try for the next week to see if I get a lucid dream --finally . I'll post my progress here. Anyone who wants to try it out is welcome and can post their results, procedures, etc. here too.