The last couple of days I’ve been snoozing my alarm (so it goes off again in 10mins), and done this repeatedly about 4 times in a row, and I end up in a dream where I automatically know I’m dreaming.
The problem is, its not very vivid and its almost as if I’m half awake after about 30 seconds into the dream. I’ll be vivid for a while and then everything fades out and i’ll be awake but still in a dream like state where I can hear and feel the dream a bit and then I’ll waver in and out. I tried making it more vivid by rubbing my hands together but it didn’t seem to work.
It’s better to use an alarm that repeats but stops in a couple of seconds. Having to move to stop the alarm really ruins it. I use an mp3 that beeps at intervals of 4 to 20 minutes.
i actually have a set of intervals that usually works really well- i have them written down somewhere at home- but since i’m away over the break and i’m not sure where i got them…
The FILD tecnique is sometimes blurry too- either that, or it’s hard to stay in the LD
but I still highly reccomend it because you have like a 99% chance of getting an LD with it
This technique is well known and there are information and a timer with specific time intervals just to do that in lucidology.
Well, if I’m not exceeding myself, also made a version of it for mobile phones supporting j2me: Dream Cycles Timer.
I still didn’t get much success with LDs yet, but I could achieve 2 hrs sleep keeping full consciousness with it (without dreams), and feeling refreshed the other day.
The only problem with the lucidology timer method I have is that if I set it, I can’t determine how long it will take me to fall asleep- EVEN when using the stop drop and roll method (I don’t roll- it doesn’t work for me)
Dream Cycles Timer