Ssild Test 30 Days

Day 8: Ok so I went to bed around 2am, various reasons, then woke up around 6 for a WBTB, being as tired as I was I couldn't get far in the steps before I drifted off. However I drifted into a very vivid dream. Here it is. I walked up these church steps to the front of this church(I live next to a church) seen a few my friends on the front steps. One of them being a girl I have the hots for but after waking up could not remember who she was what she looked like or anything. But we were all talking about how the church is haunted, so we decided to go inside and look around. After exploring the spooky basement and finding nothing out of the ordinary, we proceeded to the attic. The attic was filled with random junk. It had a giant pool table in the center of the room and had 2 beds next to it. There was a wall in the center of the attic that split it into two rooms. While on one side, I randomly became lucid, for some reason I tend to announce that I'm lucid or tell my fellow dream characters that "we are dreaming." I had announced we are dreaming and began rubbing my hands together for clarity, it was very stable, I walked up to the girl I was with looked in her eyes for a couple of seconds before we started to make out, it then got quite imlntimate and I took advantage of the fact that their were beds in the attic lol. I woke up soon after that.

That's a good idea, to see their effects. The problem is that the amount of time I spend on lucid dreaming changes, so with such a small pool of dreams, it's hard to get reliable data. Also, I usually use more than one technique when I fall asleep. But I will eventually go back through the records, and put together some sort of table, to understand how the different techniques worked for me, the simplest being the success rate of each technique combination. But I don't think it'll be very useful until I have more attempts/successes/data, so for now I'm just recording more.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss: Using more than one technique is no problem if you only add SSILD one month and look at it versus the previous month. -------- The problem is that my personality is to try everything, and I want to try them all at once, so I end up mixing in all sorts of other techniques in an attempt to shallowly test lots of others while deeply testing the main technique. So the results are still getting jumbled, even if comparing "with SSILD" to "without SSILD", since the secondary techniques change so much. I know it might not be the best way to do it, but my impatience makes it almost "boring" to do it one at a time for a month. (I'm searching for the "perfect" method, which will eventually allow me to have lucid dreams at will--even though I know the main thing is persistence. I have a childlike hope that there must be a way that just works, for nearly everyone, nearly every time. Actually, that's a large part of all this testing, I have a very pull towards finding the "silver bullet" in things, even when there probably isn't one.)

Yeah, if it works keep it, and then switch to the next month as that + something new. You can wake up after every REM and try to DEILD, if it doesn't work, SSILD every REM. and then later you can WBTB and try and WILD and if you wake up during all this it will increase your chances for DILD/MILD. Plan out each night! Sleeping 8 hours makes the nights a long time to try and LD.

Day 10 Nothing much, remembered more dreams than usual. 4-5. Day 11 I had an intense nightmare involving 3 giant spiders (oddly, in the dream i bought them and kept them as pets in glass cages, which is something i would never do in real life), i walked into the kitchen to find a cockroach on the wall. As i came near it, it said; "It's your fault that they are free", which first of all made me lucid, and secondly, turned the whole thing into a nightmare. I could hear these spiders skittering around but i couldn't see them anywhere, and that freaked me out. I didn't get the time to do anything with my lucidity and i woke up a few seconds later bathed in sweat and breathing heavily. Do any of you guys think nightmares are related to stress? Lucids: 2 FAs: 5

Day 12 Disrupted attempt, no results except a 3 second tactile-only DEILD. (lots of noise, the vacuum was being used right outside my room for like half an hour!) I'm not going to count it in the 30 attempts, because of the disruption, and because my Mom wanted me to get up before I was done trying. (though I'm still going to count it towards my LD total, since technically I was lucid; you might think that would disrupt comparisons, but it's fine, because it's made up for by lucid dream chains that I record as a single dream. For instance, yesterday, I counted two dreams as one since they both happened during the same "attempt", before I gave up on trying, so I recorded them in the same DJ entry, and thus as a single "dream".) Attempts: 7, Lucids: 3, OBE's: 1, FA's: 10, HI's: 1

Day 13 Argh, I had like 3 disrupted attempts WBTB attempts today. Every time I got close to falling asleep, I'd be called to go help with something. Really disappointing because I'm quite sure I would have had one. (you can tell to some extent by "that feeling" when you're close to falling asleep, that accompanies lucid dreams--something about the way your mind and body feels, though it's hard to describe) Attempts: 7, Lucids: 3, OBE's: 1, FA's: 10, HI's: 1

Yeah, DEILD looks pretty promising, I almost did it a few days ago accidentally, and I did it this morning for the first time! (although I lost it as soon as I 'opened my eyes' and started explained things away) Still going through with the SSILD test, I like it as well because it's relatively non-time-consuming.

Originally Posted by Venryx: Day 16 Another lucid. (though this time no false awakenings) Here's the account: Lucid Dream 23 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views Attempts: 10, Lucids: 5, OBE's: 1, FA's: 13, HI's: 2 -------- Your success rate is sky rocketing, LOL