Tactile Induced WILDs - Methods that focus on entering a lucid dream via the tactile sense.

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Originally Posted by tommo

You guys don't actually think you're levitating do you?

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Of course not.:roll:

I was saying that all I can manage to do (in the first moments of a LD via WILD) is either roll out of bed or levitate (in the dream) but not much more than that because of the fact that Im almost always still aware of my actual body.

So in short, my problem is trying to switch my awareness from my actual body to my dream body when I WILD so that I can control my dream body.

I always picture myself rolling out of my body, it works.

Gonna give tactile-oriented WILDs a shot tonight, looking forward to trying something I haven't tried before in inducing lucids. Thanks for the thread! :)

this is something ive been doing recently, but having also started a new repetetive driving job it has strangely began to make it far easier. last night i drifted off into driving dream about 3 or 4 times in a row and almost got a good lucid straight from being awake. focus on the texture of your surroundings aswell and i think it helps to have a little stretch or similar beforehand. roll around on the bed or floor and let your tactile sense really focus on each different part of your body in turn. then stop and focus on a repetetive full body movement. anything from swaying to flying for the pros i suppose

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Originally Posted by spaceexplorer

Oddly again, that reminds me of another tactile idea I played with in the summer. I spent quite a bit of time on small boats out on rough oceans in the summer. At night following this waking experiences, i could easily recall the sensation of the rocking boat. Many times it would be enough to slip me into my dreambody. Has anyone else experienced similar things? Perhaps others who ride horses, snowboard etc have found that thier waking activities make for easy tactileisations (couldn't think of the tactile word similar to visualisations, is there one?)
to focus on whilst falling asleep?

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That sounds familiar. Up until last year, I used to take a yearly trip to Six Flags. I remember, on the long drive home, feeling like the bus was about to go down a steep drop, like on a rollercoaster. I also had a similar sensation every night while staying at my beach house this summer, but instead it was like the rolling of waves. I'll try to concentrate on those sensations tonight.