Thread: Playing-Dead Induction of Lucid Dreams?

This is not so much a said N done method, but rather an experiment based on an insightfull lucid experience that I hope will lead to such a method.


Last night I briefly became lucid. Only for less than half a minute, but the way I got there completely contradicts any previous notions of and approaches to Lucidity I had before.
I was just falling asleep and, having had my usual wintertime insomnia all winter, I was glad to just be sleepy enough to sleep at all. I didn't even briefly think of Lucidity. Totally wasn't my intention to attain lucidity last night.

I was lying on my right side, turned around and saw it was very dark in my room. This gave me the creeps. An eerie feeling. So I sat up and tried to switch on a lamp next to my bed; It didn't work.

I first thought: "oh no, power must be out" And then immediately, memorising a previous dream in which the lights failed to work and I had reason the same power-out, I thought "wait a minute...am I dreaming?" So to test it finally I jumped out of bed into my room to test the gravity.
As I hovered down to the ground I noticed Gravity had severely changed and concluded I was dreaming. I wanted to stabilise myself to get ready to travel around in my dream clearminded when, for no appearant reason my eyes opened again and I was awake.

It seemed that Dreams start sooner when I "play dead". That is to say: when I make NO efforts at all trying to stay conscious, totally allowing myself to drift off to sleep. I had always thought focus was essential, but found out I have a much better chance if I just drift off and then regain consciousness while I suddenly find myself in a dream.

So My idea to build an ILD-method from this would be: Drift off effortlessly, without focus, be completely off guard. Dreams start ALOT faster and there seems to be no transition at all this way. Just suddenly a Dream. Like hunting; Play dead, drift off and when you find yourself in a Dream, concentrate on it and get your focus back up. Sneaky huh?

I will be trying this every night from now. Any folks would like to join me to test this, develop this further and post back results in this Topic that would be great.

Any thoughts?