Does the VILD technique work for you?

Quest for Lucidity
1

Hey, I just found out about the VILD technique, and I was wondering, does it work for you? I’m going to try it tonight.

2

I’ve only done it once. But it was accidental. I was just drifting off to sleep, and began to visualize, eventually I noticed I was visualizing everything and became lucid.

Goodluck with it! :content:

3

It’s worked for me several times before, you just need to make sure that you don’t lose track of what’s happening and just get sucked into your imagination :razz:

4

I’ve never tried VILD, but I would like to. Can you do it as you fall asleep at bedtime or is it only effective after WBTB?

5

I’m pretty sure you can do it both times.

Thanks for the “Good luck” btw! I tried it yesterday but I got too bored, and stopped. I bet it would’ve worked for me, because one of my friends that was in my situation came in my other dream :razz:

6

It can be done both times, but you have to remember that this, like WILD, depends on you going into a dream. At the beginning of the night the process is significantly longer before you reach your first dream phase and you also have a higher chance of getting side effects like HH and SP. During WBTB, even if you don’t actually bother to get out of bed, the process goes much quicker since you tend to fall asleep directly into REM.