So on night 2, using a slightly unorthodox combination of autosuggestion, VILD, and WBTB, I finally managed my first LD ^^
Before bed, I had written both “I will remember a dream tonight,” and “I will realize I am dreaming” and signed my name under both in my dream notebook.
At first, I was following Pedro’s VILD tech, and reading a bit of my textbook for school, because nothing exists that makes me tired faster. I wasn’t feeling all that sleepy, though, so I decided to just lie down for a little while and pick up the book again later.
That ended pretty badly, needless to say. I got up about three hours later, switched off the light, and crawled back in. “Well,” I told myself, “It’s been about three hours, let’s try WBTB.” I crawled back out, sat around for about a minute before willpower failed me and I went back to bed. Okay, how about taking a VILD for a spin again? Again, willpower fails and I just fall asleep.
In the morning! I get up at 7-something, get up and move around a bit, then flop back into bed. Then, in succession, I had a normal dream, a false awakening, then another dream where I became lucid by the finger-through-hand test. ^ ^;; It was almost like my subconscious realized there was a quota to fill, and had to fill it fast. xD
So I’m pretty happy now. Now I just need to figure out which exactly of those there did the trick…