I completely agree with you 100%. I have noticed that the more specific I am with my self suggestions, the more succesful I am with my results. Thank you for pointing that out. 
I did the self hypnosis. I’m going to have a lucid dream in 5 hours.
Nice work. 
Just try not to think about it from now till you find yourself dreaming.
What do you mean?! I found that out myself man! >=/
[size=9]Actually, he did tell me that.[/size]
It worked!..Sort of. Heres what happened: I woke up at the same time I was supposed to have a dream. It wasn’t a FA either, becuase I looked at my clock. So heres why I think that happened and why I still count this as a success: Back when Darxide’s technique was still to wake up at a certain time and then WILD, I started learning it. I programmed myself to wake up then WILD when I wanted to have a lucid dream. So I think now my Sub-C puts that part in automatically. I’ll have to do some reprogramming before this will work for me. Shouldn’t take long though. I’ll do it tonight.
You’re doing great!
Hey, thought I’d add in my experience after reading The Mad Hatter’s.
I tried Darxide’s technique last night. I woke up at 4:30 AM and stated in my head, “During my first REM period after 6:00 AM, I will realize I’m dreaming.” I repeated this for two minutes, then went to sleep. I ended up awakening briefly at or within a few minutes of 6:00 AM. I did a quick reality check and saw that I wasn’t dreaming, then I went back to sleep. Unfortunately, I didn’t end up having a lucid dream.
I have no interesting speculative conclusions to derive from this, but I thought it was worth mentioning since it corresponds to The Mad Hatter’s experience last night. I’m wondering if there’s a similar problem in our methods that we can identify. What The Mad Hatter suggested could very well be it.
BenDrummin, I agree that the phrases should be specific. I’ve considered before that the way I phrase my intentions hinders my attempts. I used to say things such as, “Tonight, I will have a lucid dream.” As for specifying which day, I didn’t even think of that! Maybe the subconscious isn’t sure you mean 4:00 AM today. Maybe it thinks you mean 4:00 AM tomorrow, or maybe it disregards the instruction entirely because it isn’t given clearly defined parameters. I’ll definitely revise my mantras to be more specific.
“I will become lucid in 6 hours and remember the dream” should suffice. Mentioned a time and an action (and the day, since “in 6 hours” is in 6 hours. XD)
Well, I said you were doing a great job, but my post was deleted.
What you said surprised me so that I searched a bit. There was no track of a post of yours being deleted in this thread. I’ll ask the other mods. BW
I did it again, this time I changed it to: “I will become lucid in 5 hours.” And so it is.
Ugh…so…tired… Ok doing a WBTB that same night wasn’t a good idea. Nothing much happened last night, I had some slight dream recall, much under my normal 3 or 4 dream recall. I’m going to spend longer on the hypnosis today.
It may have just been my computer messing with me, cause it was behaving really strangely on this particular thread. It looks fine now though. Thanks.
Glad to see you’re making good progress.
I have completed my task! 
Last night, I had a lucid dream exactly when I said I would!!! However, this is nothing like Darxide’s way. And it was also not by using the bwgen hypnosis preset like I described earlier. It was all me! Let me explain…
Last night, I was thinking how I didn’t want to rely on some hypnosis file just to make me lucid. Plus, I was too lazy to turn the computer back on…lol. So, I tried something that I’ve succeeded at before. If anybody read about it earlier in this thread, it was about me being able to stop a stopwatch exactly when I wanted to, when i wasn’t looking at it (if that doesn’t make sense…basically I started it and I said I would hit the button when it has been 1 minute…and the whole time I of course was not looking at the watch. Sure enough, I hit it, and it was right on 1 minute).
Anyways, what I did was I layed down in my bed all relaxed, and I tried concentrating a bit on lucid dreaming. Then, I took the stop watch and I started it…again, not looking at it…I repeated for a while “At 7 hours I will realize I am dreaming”. After that, I just set the watch down, I turned the lights off, and I just went to bed normally.
7 hours later, I had a LD!! And when I woke up from it, the timer was almost at 8 hours! Meaning it worked as I intended it to!!!
I of course will do it again tonight. I just may have found my personal way of ‘willing myself to do it’ 
/me is extremely happy and is going to go celebrate.
Congrats!
Wow Ben, I’m so happy the autosuggestions have actually worked so well for you 
I’m personally having fun at the moment just with waking myself up at whatever times I want (almost like your stopwatch method, relying on my subconscious to alert me) and hope to start setting my time-oriented ld suggestions sometime next week.
This is very inspiring! 
Wow that technique works like the mental alarm clock. Where you tell yourself to wake up at a certain time, and you do. It does make sence that it would work on realizing your dreaming. I will definatly try it tonight.
Congrats Ben! This was a good surprise for me to come back home from my vacation to.
Ever since I started this thread, months ago, I find that simply allowing myself to have LDs is the most efficient way.
Last night I willed myself into having 2, both at seperate times during the night. They were both very rewarding as well.
3 WILDs this morning, none of which lasted longer than 1 minute.
I just wanted to say that I tried this technique last night for the first time and… THREE WILDS too ! 
First time I do that much. So I really have to say… thanks, Darxide ^^