i like this way becaused you dont have to stay awake for an hour. every time i try this, when i go back to sleep, i doze off before i can even think of concentrating. ive left myself notes that tell me to concentrate, but them when i start to tap my fingers, i cant sleep.
doese anyone think that i could play a song quietly in the background and concentrate on that insead. and that as i gall asleep, i will still be thinking of the song and know that im dreaming? im going to try tonight and if anyone has tried this, then please tell me the results.
thanks!
I use Mild first, but 90% of the time Iāll wake up sometime between 3 and 5 anyway. Thatās when I reinforce myself with Wild, and Iām in. Iāll have to try this FILD.
I tried this. Got a great, vivid LD. Very useful technique.
This almost worked for me last night. The strange thing is that when I woke up in the middle of the night, I quickly fell asleep and didnāt get a chance to focus on what I was going to do, so instead, I did this technique in my dream without knowing anything ^^
Iāve been trying this technique the past few nights, but something odd happens whenever I wake up in the middle of the night. I go to bed at around 11 and wake up at 330, but my alarm is set for 4 or 5. But whenever I wake up on my own like that, I feel really restless, like Iāve been trying to go to sleep for a really long time. Thus, Iām not tired enough to do the technique and I just end up falling asleep.
someoneās here is a very light sleeper and succeed ?
I slept two hours yesterday, Iām so tired ā¦ Iām going to try this technique before going to bed and if the RC fails, Iāll set up my alarm for 3:00AM and go from there
Iāll give feedback and hopefully get my first LD !
My stupid digital watch didnāt woke me up !!! so I didnāt try this Iāll try in next week , Iām doing a break form LDs and focus on dream recalling.
What a night 
: 4 Dreams, and these were very special draems each. Let me tell you my night 
So I go to bet at 10:30PM, Iām very tired because I only slept two hours the day before so I go to bed, extremely tired and I relax. When I feel Iām going to sleep, I start moving my fingers. After ~15sec I feel like my conciousness is drifting from my body and I feel very goood. At this point, I get excited and for some reason (adrenaline release or so) I get excited and awake 
. I RC and canāt breath trought my nose, so no worries. I relax for another 20 mins and do the same thing again, didnāt work either. At this point I decided to set my alarm at 3:45AM (big mistake) and that Iād try this during the night.
So I go back to sleep with no intention of lucid dreaming in the first part of the night. Now Iām having my first dream, not lucid bud the dream was very vivid. I remember talking with my best friend, we just saw something ultra-scary but we were like āNo thatās unrealistic, doesnāt scare meā That wasnāt a nightmare, juste a ND. Then my alarm goes on.
I wake up, try the technique with the fingers but it didnāt work. So I decided Iād try WBTB, so I go to the bathromm, go to the kitchen and take a glass of water. At this point, Iām really really tired and I decided Iād go to bed asap and try the technique. I move my fingers and 30 secs later, I have a weird feeling and I donāt remember exactly what happened but I woke up in a dream, and was lucid (no need to RC, I saw my body without being in it 
). The bad thing is that I couldnāt materialize in my body 
So I spent 1 or 2 mins looking at me, with no possibility to materialize and interact with others etc. So that was my first lucid dream, yay
Then I have a blackout, everything is black and I wake up in another dream where I was not lucid but concious, I just acted as I was in real lief and I didnāt think one second I was in a dream ! It seemed so natural I didnāt even think about it.
After this, I wake up (morning), semi-disapointed because I didnāt have the lucid dream I wanted. After 2-3 hours, I was still very tired so I went back to sleep for 2-3 hours. Here, no technique I just went to sleep and well, I woke up in my dream, it was just like reallity but one thing was different : I canāt find the words, but there was no society rules / presure. I did everything I wanted and nobody judged me / punished me, awesoommeee
In this last dream, Iād say I was very concious (because I DID what I wanted to do) but I was lucid only the last few secs, when I had a part of my body that was detatched of me without any pain, there I really understood that it was a dream lol
So anyway, amazing experience for the first attempt, I enjoyed it and Iāll try this again and again Also Iām going to introduce myself and open my journal like everybody
Cheers
Well hereās the story of my first try.
I fell asleep around 11 and had my alarm set for 2 and I used my ipod touch alarm which has a beep about twice a second or so and when it woke me up my neck muscle was like tensing up at every beep. Not just a twitch but enough to move my head.
After that weirdness and turning my alarm off I noticed i could hear/feel my heart beating in my chest and when i layed on my stomach I could feel my heart beating against the bed. I started moving my fingers and then the feeling/sound of my heart faded and I knew I was going into a dream.
At this point I lost lucidity, but I guess I still followed through with my RC in an indirect way. I just appeared in a restaurant and I saw a guy eating soup. I went up to him and was like āHey I need to check if Iām in a dream so can you see if you have telekinesis?ā He levitated his soup and I was like well I guess Iām in a dream.
I think I became slightly lucid at this point, but then I did something weird with my breathing that caused me to wake up. I think what happened was that I went to sleep with my mouth closed and when I was in the dream I remember starting to feel like I was between real life and the dream and when I tried breathing through my mouth in the dream I ended up doing it in real life too, but my mouth was closed so I couldnāt breathe and that made me wake up.
I guess it didnāt work out too well, but it was still a success for me because after about 4 months that was the closest Iāve gotten to a LD.
Iām looking forward to trying it again tonight 
i tried FILD again last night. i think i went to sleep/woke up 
at the perfect time 
because i was so horribly grumpy. 
i completely forgot what i was supposed to do 
, and the only thought going through my head was, āwho the hell set my alarm for four-thirty in the morning?!ā 
answer: me. 
plus, i was having painful stomach crampsā¦ugh. 
but i feel better now 
, so iāll try again tonight. 
this is my favorite technique. 
Last night FILD got me my first LD. Not only that, but I got it with only the second legitimate try with this technique.
iām going to do this again tonight.
it will definitely work.
Looks like a very good tech!
But i think i will have a problem with waking up before i usualy do.
Did someone ever did it right away? or maybe someone have any tips for me?
whenever i start to move my fingers, it gets hard to move them and i get really tired and give up. how do i make it so that i wont just doze off??? i dont remeber thinking of what i should do, it was more like, i was just watching tv and not controlling what i was doing. argggggg 
how do i fix this!?!?!?
I think one thing you could try is, when you start feeling tired and your fingers start to slowly move less, allow that but keep imagining youāre moving them. I did this once, at one point my fingers stopped moving completely but I kept focusing on the imaginary movement. That way your fingers are alowed to stop moving but you keep your mind awake.
Iāve had a couple of lucid dreams using WBTB or MILD, but this technique sounds surprisingly easy. Iāll give it a try tonight and report on it tomorrow. I really hope this works well for me.
Update-
I woke up around 3 last night as I usually do. I remembered the FILD technique, so I gave it a shot. I moved my index and middle finger one at a time softly, and focused my mind on nothing but my fingers moving. After about 20-30 seconds, I felt a warp-like feeling through my body. I did the finger movements. for another ten seconds just in case. After I completed this, I did a nose breathing reality check. Success. I was in a lucid dream. This induction method works for me, and Iāll try it again tonight. Itās very easy, and works quickly. 
Iāve tried this beforeā¦ it doesnāt really workā¦ except for onceā¦ but all it induced was a dream of me doing the techniqueā¦
If this works itāll be great.
Anyone ever done this without waking up in middle of the night?
Anyhow Iāll try this tonight 
Hi, and welcome 
FILD should be done when you are very sleepy and close to a dream. In the middle of the night is a much better time to try it. You donāt have to put an alarm, you can just try to tell yourself to wake up after a dream naturally. 