Basically, I understand that there's a FILD thread or two floating about, however I'd like an answer directly composed in response to my questions therefore posting it in a collage thread and risking it being ignored isn't what I'd like to do!

Here goes!

All I want to know is if I'm going about doing the FILD technique correctly - I've read some really good reviews on it and I suppose I'd like to know if this will result in me ending up lucid in a dream.

I did it last night for the first time and achieved the following:

  • Woke up at 6am
  • Rolled onto my stomach
  • Closed my eyes, started moving my right hand fingers slowly but enough to tell
  • Felt vibrations, like an intense pins and needles all over my body
  • Heard a twang as if a metal radiator had been hit
  • Heard my mother shouting my name (she wasn't in the house)
  • Attempted a reality check but also opened my eyes simoltaneously after about 10 or 15 seconds - didn't work - was awake.


Didn't attempt it again after this - what I want to know is the following:

  • When do I reality check?
  • How do I do it? Which technique? Eyes closed or not? Slowly?
  • If I find out I'm dreaming, then what?
  • Should I expect hallucinations in a visual manner? And if so, when?
  • Upon being to enter SP, is it safe to visualize images of desired dreams or locations? Or should I let it take it's own path and RC when I should?


Sorry for all the questions, I read a whole load of posts in the FILD thread and never got a very detailed description after the actual RC/SP part...

Many thanks guys.