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

Hi Cosmic Iron, I have tried out SSILD several times and it works great! I am planning to conduct a scientific study on SSILD (I am a PhD student from Germany). Could I ask you some questions via email about SSILD? Would be awesome if you could give me your mail address (maybe just send me a mail to krisappel [at} uni-osnabrueck [dot} de)... Best Kris

Hi cosmiciron. I did 7 straight nights of SSILD to start of 2014 and got lucid on 4 of them! Also had several OBEs complete with vibrations, which surprised me. Thank you for putting in the effort to introduce this technique to the english speaking world, despite sometimes unappreciative audiences. I for one would be making slower progress without it. I also have a question based on my experiences. It seems like on the on the nights I was succesful, I went back to bed feeling like I was too tired and would probably have a subpar performance, but I made myself go through the cycles anyway for the sake of the experiment. Before, I thought that I should get sufficiently awake to do the cycles well enough that I could notice the "trance" state, instead of barely managing to squeeze all 4 of them out of my tired brain. I often felt frustrated that I would have to do go through so many more senses before I could sleep, and I mostly didn't notice any effects. I drifted off often, but felt it was due to tiredness rather than SSILD's effects. What do you think about this? Was I doing it right when I thought I was too tired? Thanks for any advice.

Hello Cosmic Iron:) I'm a LD beginner. The past 3 weeks I have practised DILD and have had 3 lucid dreams, the first two very short. I found your tutorial on Dreamviews yesterday, and this night I had 3 (long-ish) lucid dreams! LD increase of 100%, it is crazy. Just wanted to say thank you:)

First off, Thank You for this CosmicIron. Your technique seems to have help numerous people. I have been trying induction for only 2 nights now. WBTB+MILD 1st night, and WBTB+SSILD 2nd night. no LD last night but had first false awakening of my life. for some reason even though i was getting up numerous times during night and performing RCs like counting fingers, and pulling thumb, i'm not sure if i did it during my FA. Also, in my FA i had a point where i found an emergency light under my bedsheets and that dint trigger lucidity. Is it possible for RCs to give normal results in the dreamworld? Anyway, your method seems very promising i will try it for at least a month to see the results....

I've done this technique wrong multiple ways and times with my REM sleep decreased under the effects of cannabis and I still got lucid dreams every single time, albeit very short ones. I'm a newbie though. On my first time I had a false awakening... that I tried to DEILD inside the dream while experiencing a far too realistic hypnagogia with creepy well women dancing and approaching me. I got pissed instead of scared and achieved lucidity. Thanks lol.

I the results of this technique seemed to slow and then stop and I gave up on lucid dreaming. I've done this 3-4 times in the past two years where I simply give up on a technique. I think my main problem is that I fall asleep too quickly. Could I begin doing this with the lights on or my eyes open?

Hi, I tried this the other night but it was hard to get back to sleep. While I was doing SSILD though I felt weird vibrations in my chest-belly. When I tried to go to sleep after doing SSILD it was hard to fall asleep, I had a qeezy feeling in and below my chest area like that feeling you get when youre really high up and look down. I did a reality check and wasnt dreaming though I think amd when I did fall asleep I didnt become lucid. It was my first night trying though but is there a way to solve this or any tips?

Hi! I tries this method last night and had a pretty bad experience with it. I woke up 5 hours after I went to sleep, quickly went to the bathroom which took about 2 mins, turned no lights on and went right back into my bed. I did all of the cycles exactly as they were described here but I just could not fall asleep for the life of me. It wasn't false awakenings because I did many reality checks. It took me almost 2 hours to finally fall back asleep. Any ideas as of why this happened?

I think this technique would be even more effective if one practiced awareness techniques throughout the day such as ADA. I've been having trouble getting lucid in dreams but this technique triggered some sort of partial lucidity on my first try so its a good start. Thanks for sharing.

don't give up! that pesemistic attitude is probably why you failed at it! it seems to me that the only thing you are lacking is proper dream recall. Until you can semi-consistently (4 days out of the week) remember at the very least 2 whole dreams, dont give up. if even after that you aren't successful and you still want to have an LD, then seek out help. ONLY until then, do you even think about giving up.

Pun intended? Hi, currently I'm a beginner without even one LD under my belt, I'm just wondering if we can practice the technique before we actually do it? Like practice before going to sleep? I'm going to try it tonight since it's 20:27 PM here, so fingers crossed. If it works be sure to expect a lot - I mean some thanks. *cough*. Thanks for posting this anyways. -Anonymoose

Hey! I find you method very intetersting and perspective. I tried it for a month fairly often (above 10 times), but it is very difficult for me to fall asleep after it. I may lay and insomnia for more than 2 hours. And it were not FA, because i have big experience in Raduga's indirect method and LDs for 4 years. Surprisingly, but all times when i tired by insomnia and fallen asleep in the morning, i still have LD's and indirect phases! I will try to do cycles max sleepily, may be i can catch SSILD without insomnia:) Because it seemes me more physiological and closer to the cause of LDs, then MR Indirect. Thank if you will comment my experience

Wow, I tried SSILD this afternoon and had, I don't know exactely how many LDs... it was like my mind was super mindful and I could recognize the dream state as I was completely awake. I tried the nose RC and could feel my breathe flowing normally even though my nose was completely close... incredible..first attempt great success... thanks Iron