Blogspot 宇宙の铁：Senses Initiated Lucid Dream (Ssild) Off

Today my second success...I'd say a DILD obtained thanks to the SSILD cicles done just before my afternoon nap. In my dream i was trying to get asleep in a terrace on the fifth floor and thought that would have been much better to stay on the ground floor to not risk to fall from the balcony, when out of the blue, I realized I was dreaming and then I threw myself from the terrace becoming immediately lucid...wow.. I put my finger through the other hand tasting the beautiful sensation to be ...pierceable ahahahahha

Thanks to this technique, that I tried yesterday for the first time, I could turn a nightmare into a lucid dream and then I had another lucid dream after that. I already had a few lucid dreams before this, but it was a month since I had my last lucid dream. I think I'll use this technique more often. Thank you for the detailed tutorial, it's well written and easy.

CI, This is great of you to post all this. It will help many people. I do have some questions though regarding something you posted on dreamviews- "For beginners you can try this -- you wake up from SSILD. You are absolutely certain you are awake. Don't despair. Relax and allow your head to sink into the pillow. Focus on your nose and imagine that you are lifting your hand to pinch it. You probably will feel some weight on your nose and that's great. That sensation will help you. It is the sensation caused by your imaginary fingers pinching it. Once you manage to feel that your fingers have grabbed your nose you can try breathe. If you can breath the you are already in a dream. Don't let go of your fingers,. Keep focusing on them and roll out of your bed. Voila, you are in your dream world. Keep in mind -- I'm not talking about false awakening here. This is real awakening. But if you do what I say, with practice, you may be able to turn these real awakenings into lucid dreams, even AFTER you have physically moved. That's the beauty of SSILD." This isn't clear to me. OK, we wake up after having done SSILD. Allow our head to sink into pillow. That I get. But the nose pinching. We should just *imagine* it being done by our fingers? Because you say "If you can breath the you are already in a dream". I don't understand this. If we are actually awake, and just imagining fingers on our nose, then we would be able to breathe as well. Also... Should we physically roll out of bed now, even if we ARE awake, just to establish the habit? Sorry if I'm being slow about this. And thanks for your help!

So you noticed a higher success rate when you were *more* tired, and when you did a "worse" job of following the technique? It seems from reading closely that the subtle theme of this technique is in being extremely passive and non-perfectionist about the method. This seems to be the mysterious component many people don't "get" until they've already had success with the technique. I personally have tried half-heartedly doing SSILDs and have had many cool experiences but no lucid success. Maybe there is a way to word this subtle "paradoxical"/"confusing" aspect of the technique, the part about just letting yourself drift off and not "trying" too hard? Somebody who has had success with the technique, ( @cosmiciron ) could you help us understand this part? maybe put it eloquently in a way we can remember?

I have aphantasia. I've been trying to enter a lucid dream for almost 5 years using visualization techniques, but being unable to see anything, I have been unsuccessful. 2 days after reading this technique and trying it out, I entered my first lucid dream last night--and it was awesome. Thank you so much for this.

Hi First time trying SSILD and it worked! It was my my first time LD ever. It started by a FA but in completely different bedroom. RT done by pinching my nose. It lasted copuple of minutes (I was flying xD) but then it changed to different dream and I lost my lucidity. Thanks again for posting this.

Wow...Well, uh I'm very new to this and I've been trying to become lucid for a few days...I find it very fascinating. I have not been successful yet...because the first night I was so excited and expectant that I was so disappointed when nothing happened (and on top of THAT I didn't even remember a normal dream) Then last night (my second night) I was also unsuccessful. This is how it went: I went to bed at 10:30pm and I listened to binaural beats for about 45 minutes before that. I also turned off all technology as well an hour before hand which is what another article advised. I went to bed in complete darkness and went to sleep like usual. I told myself, "I WILL have a lucid dream tonight" repeatedly and then I set an alarm for 4:40am. When I woke up at the alarm, I stayed up for about maybe 10 minutes...? Then I layed still and successfully went into sleep paralysis, and tried to relax. ...Eventually the sleep paralysis got REALLY uncomfortable, so I had to wake my body up and sleep in a "roll over" position. And for once I DID dream, but I did not become lucid...*cries* I managed to remember two regular dreams... but nothing special unfortunately... I know these things take time and I should be patient, so I've tried doing reality checks all day today and even drew a picture of a landscape I am hoping for in my lucid dream.. But it's hard to tell what will work... It's just, I hear stories about these people saying lucid dreaming is so fun and easy for them...*sigh* but really I'm just praying for one...that's really what I've been putting my mind to. So the basic idea of what I should do tonight is set an alarm just like I did before, only this time do "cycles" to relax the senses and don't try to be still and strain myself, right? Hmm..I guess what I don't understand is HOW I'm supposed to know when I'm dreaming Ya'know? It seems like it's gonna be hard to let my body sleep but keep my mind awake... People say you just "pop" into the dream just like that, but is that all really true? Do the imagery behind your eyelids form into something? That's what I've heard at least...I guess I don't understand the transition and how it all works...How REAL is it? Is it just like real life? Where will I "wake up" ? I guess I'm just so confused on how it all works...haha

Sooooo LAST NIGHT I FAILED*cries* And I followed the method perfectly and it was going so well and I fell asleep on accident...I'm sure it would've worked if I didn't fall asleep. Is there anyway to prevent that and ensure you cross over into a lucid dream? (The good news is I remembered 2 regular dreams, so my recall is improving)

Hello, very nice website, I have written articles about lucid dreams in particular from their origins in Plato's Hyperuranium, which develops through the Sephirot (tree of life), are quite complex articles, and I understand that someone may find it difficult to read them, but if you are interested i give you the link: http://hokmaph-iperuranio.blogspot.it/2017/05/articles-iperuranio-world-of-ideas.html

Hi cosmic iron, I was hoping if you could explain some details about the technique. I've been practicing this technique for several months with little results and I believe the reason for that is because I kept having expectations with how the effects of the technique is. You've warned us about that , but I suppose it took me longer to realize that. After that it became easier to do it, can't say I haven't had a lucid dream, but I remember quite a few dreams last night. Despite that is there any advice you could give me to properly do the technique and make any more progress. I can definitely see the potential of this technique so if you have anything I would love to hear it. An issue I still struggle with is the fact I can't seem to fall asleep quickly. Whether i'm Just going to bed or doing the technique. My schedule: 11-12 pm-4-5 am Get up a bit from the bed then practice the technique go to sleep. Issue I noticed is that I kinda forget to keep doing the technique. I think it's lack of focus, but again I have trouble sleeping. Any ideas.

Another success with this tecnique that has became my personal one: I was in my room and everything seemed normal but my pc wasn't on my desk... there was insted a broken glass... that seemed so strange to me than I asked to myself: and if this were a dream?". And I looked at my hands and boom... I was lucid... and I was so excited that I woke up immediately... this tecnique is so effective that I suggest everyone to give it a try...