Thread: DEILD problem

Originally Posted by Reverie Phantom

You could try counting your breaths and saying "I'm dreaming" after each number. (one I'm dreaming... two I'm dreaming... three I'm dreaming...) that way once you fall asleep you don't just forget why you are counting, you have a reason and you become lucid. You'll prolly find yourself in the dream saying "I'm dreaming... I'm dreaming... wait, am I dreaming?" and there you go.

This technique just made me too alert, followed by extreme boredom resulting in me falling asleep.

That pretty much sums up my attitude to DEILD-ing. One other thing I do though is try to trick my senses. If I've woken up just enough to know the dream is ending, I am usually still relaxed enough to imagine seeing and feeling things in the dream scene. I imagine being back in the dream, but also picking things up, or moving around, feeling surfaces. (feel the muscles move etc) I have to simulate these feelings myself at first, but after a few seconds, the dream comes back- making it "real", and hanging on to something is a good way to help draw yourself in.

Interesting. I've never really tried this before. I shall give it a try tonight. Let everything go and just imagine, imagine. It'll help activating your inner senses which is essential to dreaming (according to LaBerge). I suppose having a pitch black room and no external stimuli is critical.

Originally Posted by BohmaN

I suppose having a pitch black room and no external stimuli is critical.

Not necessarily! Well, I guess everybody's different, but most of my DEILDs happen when my room is quite bright (the sun shines through the closed blinds), and there's always some sort of noise coming from downstairs. I also live on a main road and my room's at the front of the house. You shouldn't really be awake enough to notice anything ideally, but it can still be done if you are!

Thanks for all the help. Finally managed to nearly DEILD twice! Just focused on my breathing more and within seconds had SP. Though terrified and wriggled my way out of SP each time.

Just got to get over this fear now, but happy i made progress