Senses Initiated Lucid Dream Ssild

Alright... not sure if it was this technique or a coincidence, but I got lucid last night. Here's how it went down: I woke up for a WBTB, went to the bathroom and came back. I did a few repititions of the technique, and felt sleepy after about 3. HOWEVER, I couldn't fall asleep for some reason (I blame e fact that I'm sick) so I stayed up for a few hours, then went to sleep regularly. Do you think the technique kicked in even though I didn't fall asleep directly after doing it? I'm almost convinced it was a coincidental DILD, but then again I haven't gone lucid I'm a very long time, so I'm not sure.

I tryed this last night for the first time and it worked right away i didt even excpect it to work that fast . and it even caused a false awakening just like they said so for any sceptics out there about this technique do exactly as they say and it will work iv been doing this for a whiel so it might just be me but i realy think there on to somthing here so dont give up

Originally Posted by Randoman: I tryed this last night for the first time and it worked right away i didt even excpect it to work that fast . and it even caused a false awakening just like they said so for any sceptics out there about this technique do exactly as they say and it will work iv been doing this for a whiel so it might just be me but i realy think there on to somthing here so dont give up -------- Do you mind telling us what time you woke up for your WBTB? And how long it was? And how many cycles you did before you fell asleep? Sorry for the questions, I'm trying to learn from other people's successes ^_^

Originally Posted by Sydney: During my WBTB last night, I stayed up for about 20 minutes on Dreamviews before going back to bed (that was probably a mistake.. I don't know though). I went through about 6 cycles. My mind started wandering a little but not that much. I decided to roll over. I did about 2 cycles, and then stopped doing them. I kept tossing and turning until I finally went to sleep. I guess I lost some sleep last night. Maybe I was too awake? -------- Staring at a monitor screen before bed might cause sleep loss. Try to avoid it.

Originally Posted by dakotahnok: Still no results. Leaning towards placebo. -------- There are a lot of threads for techniques to induce lucidity on the forum but they don't have the high level of success that this technique has so I think we can safely rule out that this is a placebo

Originally Posted by mcwillis: There are a lot of threads for techniques to induce lucidity on the forum but they don't have the high level of success that this technique has so I think we can safely rule out that this is a placebo -------- To be honest, at first I thought this would be another one of those techniques with a fancy acronym that gets 3 posts and dies out, or is just a rehash of old techniques. I was happily proven wrong.

Ok so i went to bed at 10am and fell asleep doing the techinque so im not shure how many cycles i did but then i natruly woke up at 3:00am . wich is weird beacuse i usly do my wbtb at 4am but any way i coudent fall asleep so i did the technique till 4oam then went to sleep doing the technique agian then i had a DILD whent lucid then i thought i woke up but i didt so i guess that somthing i have to wach out for

Originally Posted by Randoman: Ok so i went to bed at 10am and fell asleep doing the techinque so im not shure how many cycles i did but then i natruly woke up at 3:00am . wich is weird beacuse i usly do my wbtb at 4am but any way i coudent fall asleep so i did the technique till 4oam then went to sleep doing the technique agian then i had a DILD whent lucid then i thought i woke up but i didt so i guess that somthing i have to wach out for -------- Yes, this technique seems to give a lot of FA's and strange awakenings and feelings of that you can't fall asleep when you've actually fallen asleep and woken up again. But I like it. I see it as oppurtunities for DEILDs.

I think the reason this works has to do with how we tend to wake up with the same thoughts we were having when we fell asleep. Fall asleep doing the cycles, wake up doing the cycles. After you wake up the cycles become an awareness anchor that keeps you conscious just long enough to result in a DEILD. The increase in false awakenings might occur because you're expecting to wake up a few times during the night. You dream about what you think about.

It works fine if you just wake up on your own. That's the only way I do it now, did it last night with some interesting results. I had one false awakening in which I was paralyzed and was immediately lucid in a random dream. I won't go into detail about the random dream but it was scary... Very scary.

Originally Posted by DinoSawr: But if it's a placebo that works for so many people, is this a bad thing? -------- No not at all! As long as people are getting lucid, I am happy. just wondering, when did I ever say it was bad? Originally Posted by McDreamy: @Dakotahnok I was just reading back a little, and didn't you recently just post about how this worked for you by getting you out of a dryspell, and how you were pretty sure it wasn't a placebo? How long have you been practicing this technique? -------- Yes, that is correct. But after reading through the thread again I decided to change that thought. When I first posted I said this works and it probably isn't a placebo. Now I'm saying I think it's a placebo, but I'm not sure yet. I have been practicing it since it came out but stopped a couple of days ago. My MILD works much better. Originally Posted by mcwillis: There are a lot of threads for techniques to induce lucidity on the forum but they don't have the high level of success that this technique has so I think we can safely rule out that this is a placebo -------- A placebo can have a good amount of success. That's the thing with lucid dreaming, it's almost all intent which is why placebo's work so well. And the fact that the thread is getting positive feed back is just making the placebo er. I'm not saying it IS a placebo, I'm just saying we shouldn't be so quick to rule that out.

Originally Posted by Sea07: It works fine if you just wake up on your own. That's the only way I do it now, did it last night with some interesting results. I had one false awakening in which I was paralyzed and was immediately lucid in a random dream. I won't go into detail about the random dream but it was scary... Very scary. -------- My first lucid from this technique was also part nightmare, strange.

Although I'm not participating in the forums anymore, I'm still getting email notifications for replies to this thread. Seeing people's questions go unanswered like this somehow made me feel guilty . Therefore I've decided to come back to provide technical support until the warranty expires... LOL