The Creator Of Ssild Had An Interesting Response In His Int

I have a question about the Touch part of the Cycle in SSILDing. When he says feel a part of your body or feel the weight of a blanket etc , does he mean physically move around and feel your body? Or does he mean think about the feeling of your body and analyze everything in your mind?

On an average two lucid dreams per week (SSILD or FILD). I learned about SSILD about three months ago and use it on a regular basis since then. In general I started lucid dreaming with FILD which is a wonderful technique, too, but it requires a fine act of balance. SSILD was a later discovery.

2 successes per week out of how many attempts? In any case, that's pretty good. I haven't heard of any such results from anyone particularly who doesn't do awareness work. Some people are WILD-style naturals. I've hardly ever had a successful WILD despite over 100 DILDs, and with my predisposition for insomnia, those kinds of approaches don't work for me.

Almost the same amount of attempts as SSILD always worked so far, and FILD almost always. On the other hand I'm so miserable with DILDs. I barely experience them, at the very most when I have nightmares (which is rarely the case... fortunately). What would you say is the key for DILDs?

Both, but I'm a bit lazy about the sitting meditation (which is somewhat odd since I almost always really enjoy it). In general, trying to stay tuned in most of the time, recognizing when I've zoned out. Over time you catch yourself more and more frequently, and get to the point where you don't feel right when you're not paying attention.

I don't come to Reddit very often. In fact the last time I came here was probably more than 2 years ago. Anyway, I saw that my name was mentioned so I came to take a look. Kinda surprised by the negative and almost hostile posts directed at me and the technique. Let me take the opportunity to clarify this -- I wrote about the technique with the sole intention to help people. I do not have any commercial interest, and I didn't even promote the technique much -- there is precisely ONE post on DreamView, that's all. SSILD is NOT a propaganda. Moreover, you may doubt SSILD's effectiveness, but you shouldn't dismiss the fact that there are MANY documented successes all over the internet. On Baidu's lucid dreaming forum alone there are thousands if not more of such documented cases. In fact, one of guys alone documented more than 500 LDs, all induced by SSILD, within a year. They are NOT phony. Back to the original question -- what did I mean in my comment "in my opinion, are based on many false assumptions"? Take "awareness" for example. People naturally believe that heightened awareness leads to lucid dreaming. The logic often goes like this -- if one is more aware of the surroundings then it is more likely for her to notice strange things in dreams. Very logical isn't it? Yes, but only if dreams are no different from our realities. I'm sure we all had dreams in which we are more like puppets, with different personality and identity. What we say and do in these dreams are totally different from what we would during the day, almost like we are acting on a script. Under such circumstances our "heightened awareness" will help very little, right? Let's keep in mind -- dreams are very different from realities in their causes, appearances, behaviors, and rules. What works in reality may not work in dreams. This is just like you can't really learn how to swim on lands, isn't it? Unfortunately a lot of the traditional methods are very much like swimming on lands. They naively disregard the differences between dreams and realities, and insists on spending lots of time and effort to hone those "skills". I don't feel like being elaborate here and due to my past experiences whenever I touch this area I inevitably got flamed by people, many of whom with very limited to no actual lucid dreaming experience. I do hope though some day people will see though the many hypes and myths. To truly experience the wonders of human consciousness one needs to be able to induce altered states of consciousness at considerable higher rate offered by traditional methods. In that case, defending them will do us little good. I admit SSILD is far from good enough, but at least I tried.