Ssild Test 30 Days

Yikes... this thread is just getting more and more people participating. Anyways. I think I woke myself up too much last night. Couldn't get back to sleep after SSILD for about 20-30 minutes. I had a lucid, but that was most definitely not from SSILD. It was a WILD from the first dream of the night! Not really the most productive LD, I lost lucidity, but I needed to know if I could do it. I got it first try, so I need to ask some people some questions about it. Day 7 total LDs:15 This is: 11 DILDs 3 WILD 1 DEILD Week summary! 15 lucids in a week is definitely my record. My record for a month was 18 till this previous month jumped it up to 26, but the last 6 days I used SSILD. So 15 lucids total. 13 for SSILD, one DEILD unconnected, one WILD unconnected. Very good results. This next week I will keep up my ADA and DDA but then the following two weeks I will only do SSILD. I will compare the results, taking in to account the fact that I am learning how to SSILD better. @CosmicIron Do you know if doing a WILD upon initial sleeping is bad for this technique? Does it have no effect? I have thought before that if I can gain awareness at the beginning of the night, I'd be able to keep it all night. My chances of becoming lucid after a lucid are extremely high. It doesn't work like that if my awareness drops in the lucid dream though. :/

BAH!!! I tried WBTB for the first time last night (at 5am) and I couldn't get back to sleep. I was only up for about ten minutes, and I was wide awake. But I learned something interesting: my REM cycle starts sometime BEFORE 5 am. I also got this weird feeling, like I was gradually being pulled into the abyss. My SSILDs always end up turning into WILD, but whenever I'm about to become lucid, something interrupts me. I am living with a family of five, so even during the night there's always sudden noises. To make things worse, my sister's bunny plays "rocket ship" during the night, and he's incredibly loud. Also, my dog likes to freak out randomly. And right now, there's obnoxious construction going on. But thankfully, the gecko is silent (:

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss: Yikes... this thread is just getting more and more people participating. Anyways. I think I woke myself up too much last night. Couldn't get back to sleep after SSILD for about 20-30 minutes. I had a lucid, but that was most definitely not from SSILD. It was a WILD from the first dream of the night! Not really the most productive LD, I lost lucidity, but I needed to know if I could do it. I got it first try, so I need to ask some people some questions about it. Day 7 total LDs:15 This is: 11 DILDs 3 WILD 1 DEILD Week summary! 15 lucids in a week is definitely my record. My record for a month was 18 till this previous month jumped it up to 26, but the last 6 days I used SSILD. So 15 lucids total. 13 for SSILD, one DEILD unconnected, one WILD unconnected. Very good results. This next week I will keep up my ADA and DDA but then the following two weeks I will only do SSILD. I will compare the results, taking in to account the fact that I am learning how to SSILD better. @CosmicIron Do you know if doing a WILD upon initial sleeping is bad for this technique? Does it have no effect? I have thought before that if I can gain awareness at the beginning of the night, I'd be able to keep it all night. My chances of becoming lucid after a lucid are extremely high. It doesn't work like that if my awareness drops in the lucid dream though. :/ -------- Based on my observations doing WILD upon initial sleeping has little effect with SSILD. Personally I only did WILD this way in the early days when I was inexperienced and eager to get result. I really suggest you do the same -- get some really good sleep in the beginning without being concerned with LD, and have fun later when you are fully rested. It's both healthy and efficient

I'm new to lucid dreaming and have read a few of these threads. I've been trying the SSILD technique for a couple of nights now and managed to get 1 FA last night. I 'woke up' during the night and my clock said 7:14 but i forgot to do a RC and went back to sleep. Later that night I woke up for real and the clock said about half past 5, so I assume I must have had a FA.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss: Yikes... this thread is just getting more and more people participating. Anyways. I think I woke myself up too much last night. Couldn't get back to sleep after SSILD for about 20-30 minutes. I had a lucid, but that was most definitely not from SSILD. It was a WILD from the first dream of the night! Not really the most productive LD, I lost lucidity, but I needed to know if I could do it. I got it first try, so I need to ask some people some questions about it. Day 7 total LDs:15 This is: 11 DILDs 3 WILD 1 DEILD Week summary! 15 lucids in a week is definitely my record. My record for a month was 18 till this previous month jumped it up to 26, but the last 6 days I used SSILD. So 15 lucids total. 13 for SSILD, one DEILD unconnected, one WILD unconnected. Very good results. This next week I will keep up my ADA and DDA but then the following two weeks I will only do SSILD. I will compare the results, taking in to account the fact that I am learning how to SSILD better. @CosmicIron Do you know if doing a WILD upon initial sleeping is bad for this technique? Does it have no effect? I have thought before that if I can gain awareness at the beginning of the night, I'd be able to keep it all night. My chances of becoming lucid after a lucid are extremely high. It doesn't work like that if my awareness drops in the lucid dream though. :/ -------- How in the world are you getting so many??? And how long does it take you to slip into a LD?

Originally Posted by Matt1: Day 4 No results. My fault, though, I was lazy or too sleepy and missed some awakenings and fell asleep before I did hardly any of the technique. I am also going to count the 2 days I really tried it before I started keeping track on here. So this is day 4, not 2. Attempts: 4; Lucid dreams: 2; Non-lucid FAs: 2 CosmicIron, during an awakening is it better to wake yourself up enough to do all the cycles, or to stay sleepy to fall asleep during the cycles, even if you just do a few? And how do you think it best to handle getting distracted by random-falling-asleep-thoughts in the middle of the cycle? -------- In general, waking up more sufficiently will have better result. However, some people may have trouble falling back to sleep. Thus I suggest waking up just a little bit before attempting the exercise. If you do choose not to get up, then you should be prepared to chain the exercise -- basically do a few cycles upon each awakening. This is actually how I normally do it and I usually succeed after the second attempt. As for the random thoughts, as I said in the tutorial they are your friends. They help move you away from reality and into the dream state. Don't fight them, embrace them!

Originally Posted by aquafox12: How in the world are you getting so many??? And how long does it take you to slip into a LD? -------- It is not impossible my friend. Once you master this technique it will give you multiple LDs every day. Many people on my forum managed to record hundreds of LDs within just a few months. Just keep at it and you will be rewarded.

Originally Posted by CosmicIron: Based on my observations doing WILD upon initial sleeping has little effect with SSILD. Personally I only did WILD this way in the early days when I was inexperienced and eager to get result. I really suggest you do the same -- get some really good sleep in the beginning without being concerned with LD, and have fun later when you are fully rested. It's both healthy and efficient -------- I see, so does WILD upon initial sleep effect how much you actually rest? Can you use SSILD for naps? I don't remember if I asked the nap question before. Originally Posted by aquafox12: How in the world are you getting so many??? And how long does it take you to slip into a LD? -------- I have had 11 through SSILD, but I have had the previous version of SSILD that I trusted in and this one is supposed to be better. Confidence Awareness Self-awareness Imagination Dream recall Dream journal Dedication Sleep schedule Expectation These are the big parts of lucidity in my mind. But this technique only needs a few of them (as most do). These are: Confidence Dream recall Sleep schedule Expectation And these are the things that have been getting me lucid, so when I see a tech that is all my points and has worked even before it was perfected, this makes confidence and expectation go up. My dream recall is close to 6 dreams a night before starting this, and my sleep schedule is set. Which yet again raises confidence and expectation. This is just my ideas on the matter. :/ cosmiciron what are your thoughts? (I hope you get paid for this tech or just love sharing lucid dreaming, because you have to answer a lot of questions, haha)

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss: I see, so does WILD upon initial sleep effect how much you actually rest? -------- I have asked this question, myself. I have actually had 8 hour long lucid dreams, and woken fully rested. This is only one account, but I have never seen any evidence to support the idea that lucid dreams interfere with the body or mind's recuperation/regeneration.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss: I see, so does WILD upon initial sleep effect how much you actually rest? Can you use SSILD for naps? I don't remember if I asked the nap question before. -------- I have had 11 through SSILD, but I have had the previous version of SSILD that I trusted in and this one is supposed to be better. Confidence Awareness Self-awareness Imagination Dream recall Dream journal Dedication Sleep schedule Expectation These are the big parts of lucidity in my mind. But this technique only needs a few of them (as most do). These are: Confidence Dream recall Sleep schedule Expectation And these are the things that have been getting me lucid, so when I see a tech that is all my points and has worked even before it was perfected, this makes confidence and expectation go up. My dream recall is close to 6 dreams a night before starting this, and my sleep schedule is set. Which yet again raises confidence and expectation. This is just my ideas on the matter. :/ cosmiciron what are your thoughts? (I hope you get paid for this tech or just love sharing lucid dreaming, because you have to answer a lot of questions, haha) -------- LOL. If I'm out of job then I will consider packaging this stuff into a DVD and put up a web site which has nothing valuable on it and everything you click on will take you to a page to enter your credit card information. Isn't that a dream come true? Hahaha. Anyway, I like your list. Very thorough indeed.

I guess this is just kind of a general progress thread at this point, considering everyone has different starting dates. Well, I'm throwing my hat in the ring. I think I'll test out this supposedly foolproof method for myself. The critical acclaim seems almost universally positive, at least in this thread. Lucid: 0 False Awakening: 0

Frobthebuilder, add the day or the number of attempts as well. It helps to make it clearer how succesful the technic is being for you... Day 4 Alarm woke me up after 6 hours of sleep and out of a dream. I got up, went to the bathroom. This time I really got me exposed to light and also washed my hands with cold water, things I was avoiding because I didn't want to wake myself too much... Then I went to bed and, as I was more awake than usual, I was capable of completing the cycles. Nevertheless, I was still drowsy enough to lose count andhavewandering thoughts. After the long cycles I rolled to my side and tried to fall asleep while trying to do some extra cycles. It didn't take long for me o lose consciousness. Unfortunatelly, once again there was no lucidity. Neither was there any vividness. And dream recall wasn't great either, just some very small fragments. I wonder if the fact that in my last three attempts I was out of my sleep schedule could be hindering a faster progress... Lucids: 0, FAs: 0, OBEs: 0

Attempt 1 I went to bed around 3AM, and when I woke up, it was to people standing in the room right outside my bedroom door, talking. Getting back to sleep was tough. Anyway, I practiced a few cycles and fell asleep. Didn't notice anything really different about the dreams I had after that. Lucid: 0 False Awakening: 0

Originally Posted by Frobthebuilder: Attempt 1 I went to bed around 3AM, and when I woke up, it was to people standing in the room right outside my bedroom door, talking. Getting back to sleep was tough. Anyway, I practiced a few cycles and fell asleep. Didn't notice anything really different about the dreams I had after that. Lucid: 0 False Awakening: 0 -------- Going to bed at 3am is way too late. You need to have sufficient sleep for this thing to work. Even though nowadays I achieve near 100% success rate with this technique I'd not practice it when I go to bed late. It's just too much effort that way and not healthy either.

Originally Posted by CosmicIron: Going to bed at 3am is way too late. You need to have sufficient sleep for this thing to work. Even though nowadays I achieve near 100% success rate with this technique I'd not practice it when I go to bed late. It's just too much effort that way and not healthy either. -------- But I had plenty of sleep, considering I got up at 12pm. That's nine hours.

Didn't plan to start SSILD, but after this day having 3 WILD, I half unconsciously decided to try SSILD, and had 4-5 FA, including a very strange one when I was sleeping next to our dining table, and wake up to eat candies which was all over the table (though I don't really like candies, and we don't even have), I grabbed as much as I could with my arms and started eating one which I think does not even exists.

Day 5 No results, but my bad, I fell asleep pretty quickly again in the middle of cycle 2 at best. Day 6 No results. I am not going to count this as an attempt since I fell back asleep basically instantly. Attempts: 5; Lucid Dreams: 2; Non-lucid FAs: 2 One thing odd about the past 3 days: The only times I got to do any decent cycles was before falling asleep the first time for the night. And each night, my first dream after this is a non-lucid dream where I am talking about lucid dreaming or even sort of demonstrating it. I bet I would become lucid during these if it wasn't during the very short 1st REM cycle. Tonight I will try to stay up for 15 minutes during each awakening so I can get in some decent cycles before falling asleep.

No results for the 8th and 9th day. Too little sleep. Parties and things kept me up. Not drinking parties, just hanging out with friends, so it shouldn't effect my recall or anything tonight. I had about 3 dreams a night in the lack of sleep days. So recall was halved. Couldn't make it through the cycles without falling asleep because of the tiredness. BUT! I am feeling fine tonight, not too tired. Confidence up! Ready to LD! I am redoing nights 8 and 9 since other factors stopped me from doing them (no sleep) I am moving up my plan to now with no ADA or anything, just SSILD. I haven't done anything for it the last two days, so we shall see. So tomorrow week 2 starts! I'll compare the 3 weeks and 2 days to the week with ADA. If any of them pass it up, I will probably switch to only SSILD full time. 15 is the number to beat. any of the seven days in a row together will work doesn't have to be part of a week cycle. Hope that makes sense! I am excited now. I am going to bed.

bhkbsflifg! Ugh, I keep getting so close! (I know you're not supposed to do this, but I was just feeling stupid) Last night, right before I went to sleep, I did the SSILD while daydreaming, and I got my mind to start swirling again. I was all like "Wheeeeeee!" And I took someone's advice and attempted to roll over and see if I roll into a dream. Nothing happened, typically. But there's something I don't get: are you supposed to roll physically or mentally, cause I was full-aware that I was awake. I don't get it! D: Also, every attempt at napping always gets interrupted by construction, my dog, my family, the doorbell... And I tried the binaural waves thing, but that just gave me a headache x_x

Originally Posted by aquafox12: bhkbsflifg! Ugh, I keep getting so close! (I know you're not supposed to do this, but I was just feeling stupid) Last night, right before I went to sleep, I did the SSILD while daydreaming, and I got my mind to start swirling again. I was all like "Wheeeeeee!" And I took someone's advice and attempted to roll over and see if I roll into a dream. Nothing happened, typically. But there's something I don't get: are you supposed to roll physically or mentally, cause I was full-aware that I was awake. I don't get it! D: Also, every attempt at napping always gets interrupted by construction, my dog, my family, the doorbell... And I tried the binaural waves thing, but that just gave me a headache x_x -------- You need to be deep in sleep paralysis for that to work It's for OOBE.