How Am I Achieving Lucidity?

Quest for Lucidity
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I have been interested in lucid dreaming for a month now, and am using a mixture of the WBTB and WILD technique that has resulted, of the ten times that I have used it, in seven lucid dreams.

I am curious however as to if this is a common induction experience (not technique, which is a combination of very common ones), because it is not one that I have read about before.

Here it is:

I go to sleep as I normally would.
I wake up four and a half to six hours after going to sleep.
I stay awake for ten minutes.
I return to bed in exactly the way that I normally would (ie. I don’t lie on my back, I have no breathing exercise).
I use the 61 point relaxation technique found in Stephen LaBerge’s Lucid Dreaming (and here madphilosopher.ca/2006/12/61-point-relaxation/), whereby you focus on 61 points around the body.
With each point of the technique, which I focus on for approximately thirty seconds, I think of a variation of the sentence “I will have a lucid dream.”
After a short period of time, I lose consciousness. During this time I often have a short ND, lasting no more than 5 minutes.
I regain consciousness once this dream ends, aware that I am lying in bed, but with my eyes closed. I am not under SP because I am able to move my arms (though I make sure that I do not; the one time that I did I woke up) but I feel intense vibrations throughout my body. I hear no sounds and see no imagery, and this usually lasts for about 30 seconds. I then sit up in my bed, do a RC and discover that I am dreaming.

I won’t bore you by discussing what has happened in my LD, that is for another day, but I am curious as to if this is a common experience. The induction of the LD itself is precisely what I would expect from a WILD, but I have read nothing to suggest that this ever involves first losing consciousness…

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That sounds like a pretty effective way of doing a DEILD, actually. It’s pretty close to what a lot of people around here do. Keep playing around with it and refining it until you get just the right timing down and you might have a reliable method to dream.

In fact, I would recommend most people who are trying WILD/DEILD to do it this way, though the time awake can vary and the relaxation technique can be changed around as long as it focuses on dreaming.