HI dreamers,
Ive recently returned to the forum after a short apperance 4 years ago. At that point it seemed that LD became lifestyle or spiritual path that required alot of discipline. I decided to just continue on my path and that LD’s would come to me when my mind and body had been purified. So, now you understand that Im a spiritual seeker.
Anyway, about two months ago, while I was in the jungles of Peru, I started to have a lot of spontaneous LD. I could have up to 9 each night. I always tried to do things, but for some reason my dreamworld wasn’t reacting to my intentions. That way, I ended up having fun instead, like having sex. That made the LD close down and stop appearing altogether. Now, I feel I want to be able to control this more and take charge of my dreams.
Ive started doing RC, DJ and MILD. What I find difficult with MILD is to continue doing it untill Im asleep. It seems my mind cant cope with repeating the mantra while Im between dream and waking life. Its like a span of 5-15 minutes. Im a light slepper and use along time to fall alseep. When I wake up in the night I try to repeat the mantra, but my mind has difficulties since Im in that between state. The words get messed up and then I drift of for a short time etc. I must also add that my DR hasnt been good lately. Working on it with MILD. My mantra is something like this: When Im dreaming, I will become lucid and I will remember the dream. When I wake up in the night, I have to throw myself over my notepad to write down anything I remember, but that is also challenging, since my writing motorics is kind of dull straight after awakening.
Phew, feedback and advice will be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for this forum. Its a place of inspiration and support. And I highly need that in my quest!
I have the same problem, I can’t go on with MILD until I fall asleep, except in some rare cases (which are caused by what I’m about to suggest).
Here it is, they key to, I believe both MILD and WILD: Meditation. It is very effective on getting the head focused on something, especially in the long run. So I suggest starting it as soon as possible. Even 10 minutes a day makes a great difference.
Lying down, slowing down your breathing and just getting your mind empty works for me. Another thing I do is just think of white. But there are many other techniques and ways, which are probably much better than this one so I also say you should run a search on it and choose a method to work with.
I find that with MILD you don’t have to repeat it until you fall asleep. Just repeat your mantra a few times (I usually do it 3-5 times), until you feel the intention has stuck in your mind. Then just fall asleep normally. What I also do is if after I repeat my mantra I start getting too deep into other thoughts, I stop and do the mantra again.
The definition of MILD says that the idea is to have your mantra as the last thinkg you think of before you fall asleep, right? well, if you say the mantra a few times and then try to meditate, or just clear your mind until you fall asleep, it’s the same thing! well, it works pretty well for me at least… Good luck!
Got it! Gonna try this tonight. Ive been meditating off and off for some years, so that part of the practice is pretty much setteled Will reply if this helped or not in some days
Ok, this morning I managed to become lucid using MILD. But it was verry brief indeed. It seems its easy to be aware of the transit to the dreamstate in the mornings for me. The problem is that at this hour Im very light and easily out of the dreamstate. I noticed the transition, did a RC and I was lucid for about a minute or so. I did some RC’s and just tried to remain calm, using breathing excercises, but som DC came and distracted me and I woke up.
Im gonna use this tecnique more. It seems good so far. Any suggestions as to what can be done with my DJ soon after wake up, since my DR goes away really fast? I mean, 5 minutes after waking these days and I dont remember anything. And writing like 30 secs after awakening is really hard considering my eyes are unfocused and so is my writing. I can hardly read what Ive written! Some months ago I had no problem remembering up to 7 dream in one night and write like 5-8 pages very detailed in my DJ.
well, it works pretty well for me at least… Good luck!
Will reply if this helped or not in some days 