Ssild Test 30 Days

Haven't been able to post here since i got sick Saturday. Day 15, 16, 17 Nothing worth reporting. Day 18 I went to bed around midnight, still sick at this point so i called in sick around 6:30. I feel asleep again around 7:00 doing SSILD for about 10 minutes and had a dream where i went for a walk (I do this everyday). I suddenly got the idea of RC'ing, and sure enough, LUCID! This LD is the first really long LD i have ever had, and it was amazing how vivid it was. I went around town looking at the sky (it was sooooooo bright and beautiful) and the city architecture. I also tried flying but failed horribly. x'D I also made other DCs lucid, by telling them to do random reality checks, it was so fun to watch. Lucids: 3 FAs: 5

Day 20: went to bed at around 10pm woke up at 3am for WBTB, I was really tired so I just quickly jotted down a dream I remembered and then began the ssild cycles, I fell asleep really fast. I ended up having a DILD, I was standing in my kitchen when I randomly decided to do the nose plug rc. I didn't do much before I woke up.

I need to get back to doing SSILD. I have been saying I am going to, but I am too concentrated on waking up every REM. Hey cosmiciron, tutorial says to get 4-5 hours of sleep. What if I do this at 4 hours and 6 hours and 7 hours? (My usual waking time) would it be useless to try it after the initial time or would it be good?

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss: I need to get back to doing SSILD. I have been saying I am going to, but I am too concentrated on waking up every REM. Hey cosmiciron, tutorial says to get 4-5 hours of sleep. What if I do this at 4 hours and 6 hours and 7 hours? (My usual waking time) would it be useless to try it after the initial time or would it be good? -------- Whatever works for you, doesn't really have to be exact. I can get it to work with only 2 hours of sleep. Basically, once you master it you can pretty much get it to work no matter what. However, a not very drowsy state usually yields better results.

Originally Posted by CosmicIron: Whatever works for you, doesn't really have to be exact. I can get it to work with only 2 hours of sleep. Basically, once you master it you can pretty much get it to work no matter what. However, a not very drowsy state usually yields better results. -------- Gotcha. Is the phase supposed to feel like you are leaving your body? Er.... getting two bodies at once? I had 3 LDs last night, and I think it started because of the SSILD. I don't know why I stopped doing this, if seemed to work so well and I somehow forgot about it and didn't think about starting up. I'm gonna post the 3 LDs in my DJ today if you want to check it out.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss: Gotcha. Is the phase supposed to feel like you are leaving your body? Er.... getting two bodies at once? I had 3 LDs last night, and I think it started because of the SSILD. I don't know why I stopped doing this, if seemed to work so well and I somehow forgot about it and didn't think about starting up. I'm gonna post the 3 LDs in my DJ today if you want to check it out. -------- The word "phase" is used to describe whole bunch of phenomenon such as LD, OBE, NDE, and so on in the hope to stay neutral. Maybe you are referring to the trance state while cycling? Anyway, the sensations felt can vary quite a lot. Personally I almost never incur anything unusual during the cycles, while some people experience all sort of wild things.

Day 21 Too busy again, no attempts this morning. (although I did have some strangely vivid HI experiences last night, I guess because of sleep deprivation-- enough that a couple times I'd jolt aware, realizing I was like starting to hear things and stuff, like imagination except fading into real perceptions without intending it to) @BrandonBoss Yeah, I'm going to go with the 30 attempts. Attempts: 10, Lucids: 5, OBE's: 1, FA's: 13, HI's: 2

Day 1 So I decided to try the technic out and log here how it goes. Last night was my first attempt and it got me pretty satisfied. I naturally woke up after 4 hours of sleep, got up for a couple of minutes, maybe ten. While I was up, I avoided lights at all costs, as I knew they could get me way too awake (just couldn't help the cellphone light as I checked what time it was and the fridge's light). Back to bed, lying on my back (least favorite position), I began the cycles. Did like 4 of the quick one and some 6 of the long ones, though it is hard to be sure: you indeed lose count! Then I rolled to my side and tried to get back to sleep. It wasn't being exactly easy (probably because I was too excited about the nem tech), but it became impossoble as a mosquito came in and bugged me all he could. I lost patience and got up of bed once again, turned on the light ("yeah, screw SSILD, I have bigger issues right now!") and hunted down the damn bloodsucker. After that, I went back to bed and decided to go all over the cycles again, but this time lying on my side. My presleep thoughts were so agitated at this point that I was having a real hard time doing the cycle and ended up getting asleep even before having a chance of doing the longer cycles. About two hours later I naturally woke up again, but it took me a while to realize I was awake. Then I began paying attention to what I was thinking about, and I saw it was some weird memories. Then suddenly I realized that these were no real memories, they were fragments of my dreams! The dreams were so vivid that it really took me a while before I noticed they weren't waking life memories! Incredible, I said to myself, I don't recall ever experiencing some thing like that! Then I tried doing cycles once more, it was difficult to keep focus on the senses (this time I am sure I was really excited) but I managed to reach the longer cycles, during which I fell asleep once more. Naturally woke up later, but this time I could not recall a single fragment of dream. [EDIT: half an hour after writing this, I actually recalled some parts of a dream I had in this last sleep period. Not as vivid as the ones I had earlier in the night, but much more vivid than my usual ones] So this is it for my first time trying this technic. I know the post is a little long, but it is just because I got really excited and wanted to share the experience in details. Next post, if I ever come to writing them, will surely be much more sucint. Lucids: 0, OBE's: 0, FA's: 0, HI's: 0

^^ Remember, that if you have trouble falling asleep after doing SSILD, do a RC. It can be a FA. Some time ago, I've done a SSILD. I had such a trouble falling asleep, I've done like 3-4 nose plug RCs, and I couldn't breath. But when I did the 5th RC... I could breath -------- I did lots of RCs, but they didn't get me any result. Anyway, I was also trying the "look at your hands" RC, which can be quite a silly one if you are dreaming of being in a dark room... :p Anyway, pretty interesting this thing of you having to try 5 times before getting a result with nose plug. I've heard this is the single most reliable one out there... Do you think the first four attempts were false positives, or that you still weren't dreaming?

Originally Posted by lucsande: I did lots of RCs, but they didn't get me any result. Anyway, I was also trying the "look at your hands" RC, which can be quite a silly one if you are dreaming of being in a dark room... :p Anyway, pretty interesting this thing of you having to try 5 times before getting a result with nose plug. I've heard this is the single most reliable one out there... Do you think the first four attempts were false positives, or that you still weren't dreaming? --------: The first 3-4 RCs were done when I was still awake. I falled asleep into a FA, and did the RC thinking that I'm still awake. I had an another cool attempt too. I did 2 cycles of SSILD, falled asleep, and continued doing them in a dream

Day 1: Hey guys. I've been out of the lucid dreaming scene for a looooong time. I used to use Naiya's all day awareness method and I was getting about 2 lucids each week. I want to get back into lucid dreaming so I read this last night and thought I would give it a shot along with doing all day awareness. Here's what happened: I woke up at 5:40am and got up to visit the bathroom and get a drink. After about 3min I hopped back into bed, relaxed for a minute and then started to try and do my SSILD cycles. Unfortunately I seriously could not keep my concentration for the life of me. I don't know why, I was trying hard but I guess I was just too tired as I had done about 5hours of exercise yesterday. I did manage to get one full rep done though and I also tried to do more. As I was laying in me bed, I then did a nose pinch RC and it was successful surprisingly haha. I haven't done that RC in about 2 years so it felt really funny breathing through a closed nose haha. I woke up right afterwards though (or was it a false awakening? I cant remember) so I'm not going to count it as a lucid. I think I'm going to keep at this for the full 30 days along with using all day awareness. I want to have at least 5 lucid dreams in a month. Lucids: 0, FA: 0

Originally Posted by Tushix: Day 1: Hey guys. I've been out of the lucid dreaming scene for a looooong time. I used to use Naiya's all day awareness method and I was getting about 2 lucids each week. I want to get back into lucid dreaming so I read this last night and thought I would give it a shot along with doing all day awareness. Here's what happened: I woke up at 5:40am and got up to visit the bathroom and get a drink. After about 3min I hopped back into bed, relaxed for a minute and then started to try and do my SSILD cycles. Unfortunately I seriously could not keep my concentration for the life of me. I don't know why, I was trying hard but I guess I was just too tired as I had done about 5hours of exercise yesterday. I did manage to get one full rep done though and I also tried to do more. As I was laying in me bed, I then did a nose pinch RC and it was successful surprisingly haha. I haven't done that RC in about 2 years so it felt really funny breathing through a closed nose haha. I woke up right afterwards though (or was it a false awakening? I cant remember) so I'm not going to count it as a lucid. I think I'm going to keep at this for the full 30 days along with using all day awareness. I want to have at least 5 lucid dreams in a month. Lucids: 0, FA: 0 -------- Welcome back, then Please note that with SSILD you are not supposed to maintain concentration. Just do it in a very relaxed manner and let go eventually. The magic starts AFTER you fall asleep.

Originally Posted by CosmicIron: Welcome back, then Please note that with SSILD you are not supposed to maintain concentration. Just do it in a very relaxed manner and let go eventually. The magic starts AFTER you fall asleep. -------- Thank you I'll keep that in mind for my next attempt. Thanks for sharing such a simple yet effective method.