Hi there all LD’ers, im new here, and have only just begun to explore Lucid Dreaming.
I have read all the guide and started trying to LD last night. Unfortunatly, i tryed to WILD with no aparent success after 30 minutes or so.
Tonight i’m going for MILD and hopefully i will get some signs of it working.
I have a question: Do i need to sleep, then wake up and remember my dream, go to sleep again, and try to become lucid?
Can’t i just go to sleep normally and become lucid there?
Hello, yes you can go to sleep and have a lucid. That happened to me last night. I went to sleep didn’t wake up and my last dream I went lucid. I was happy, I haven’t had one for a month.
What I would recommend is to first make sure you have a DJ. Write in your journal anytime you remember having a dream, whether during the night or first thing in the morning. This will encourage your dream recall and eventually increase your awareness.
For me when I have done WILD or any other LD. I have had the most success when I wake up in the middle of the night (usually to go to the bathroom) and then go back to bed. Also when waking up first thing in the morning and then sleeping in usually produces interesting dreams as well as LDs.
You have to experiment. You have only just started on wonderful path to LDs. Take your time, be patient and you will be successful
The long answer… how you become lucid depends on your technique. Most of my LDs are DILD (which means becoming lucid in the course of a normal dream). But it does work better combined with induction techniques like WBTB, MILD and “lucid living”. I also try WILD ocassionally but I am clearly not disciplined enough to practice it regularly.
Here is a method if you don’t like MILD or WILD.
Get a vibrating alarm watch. Set to go off about every half hour or so. Do a small RC (ask how you got where you are. ect…)
Then for the last RC before you go to bed, just do one long RC, and ask what you did in the day to end up where you are at the moment. Have the watch set to go off also while you are asleep, and sooner or later, by habit, you will do a RC in your sleep when you feel the vibration on your wrist. (usually). There are other methods than this. This is just a suggestion. Kind of an annoying thing to do though. WILD and MILD take a while to master, I would just keep up at those for a little while longer before making any large choices.
My last ld was completely done on RC’s; with that you can go “just go to sleep:” and become lucid. You just have to be used to it enough to actually say “…Wait, something’s not right…I’d better do an RC.” It took me a few months to actually do it in a dream, so don’t get discouraged
Something that does help me, especially if you like to meditate is this: put yourself in a comfortable position (For me this is sitting with my legs crossed with my hands on my lap) in a place where you feel comfortable enough and people arent’ going to come to “wake you up” or “snap you out of it” and let your mind go in and out of hypnogogia. Its between sleeping and waking, but you can practice awareness there because your mind is still functioning under your control, but youre in a dreamlike state. Think about the things you’d like to do while lucid-do some and try it out, see how it feels. It can be fun.
Any kind of distractions around you don’t have to be bad, but rather let your imagination take you away! There are voices? a DC can be talking to you. There are lights? the sun just came out behind a cloud. don’t let it annoy you.
Get used to doing reality checks in hypnogogia as well as IRL as often as possible so you do remember to do it in a dream and good luck!