Quote Originally Posted by Zthread View Post
I also participated in that Mortal Mist study. I tried it a lot, with various frequencies, including the recommended one. Unfortunately, it didn't do much of anything for me, at least for inducing LDs. I guess nothing works for everyone. Or I might have been doing something wrong.

How often did you get lucid with CES? Was it anywhere close to the 77% success rate reported in the Nature paper? Also, are you someone who gets lucid fairly easily?
I don't have the details about exactly how often I got lucid, but I can say that I am a natural lucid dreamer and typically have 1-3 lucids a week without any induction methods. I definitely go through dry spells too where I won't LD at all for a month or so, but then they randomly come back for whatever reason. The CES for me definitely qualifies as an induction method so it's only natural that my LD frequency would increase a bit just from experimenting with the device and being in the mind set to get lucid, regardless of the device's actual effectiveness. The correlations I was able to make were more indirect...in that I was lucid in general more often during the times when I was experimenting with the device, rather than becoming lucid directly as a result of having the device on during a REM period if that makes any sense.