I read the tutorials and I understand them mostly, but as silly as this sounds, I'm not 100% sure about the waking up part. Is it a standard "wake up" in the middle of the night, or is it some sort of special wake up between dreams?
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I read the tutorials and I understand them mostly, but as silly as this sounds, I'm not 100% sure about the waking up part. Is it a standard "wake up" in the middle of the night, or is it some sort of special wake up between dreams?
The point of it is to wake up between dreams. This is why it is called 'Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dream', you are suppose to briefly and consciously wake up when a dream ends and then immediately enter a lucid dream.
It is kind of like a quicker WILD.
work on softly waking up. if u wake up by alarm an hour(maybe 2) early than usual, then tell urself u need to wake up in 15 minutes. u will eventually go in and our of dreams 15 minutes at a time which can make for great practice. the hard part of this is finding the motivation to try and keep ur conscious self awake without getting too excited. dont worry about keeping still because ur not going for SP u just want to stay comfortable and as close to asleep as possible(keep ur eyes closed while trying to fall back asleep). relax ur thoughts and softly tell urself a mantra of ur liking. hopefully u will keep ur consciousness as u begin to dream.
the best advise u can get is from urself. only u know the best way for falling asleep and how u react to techniques.
It's either when you naturally wake up, or when you wake up after a dream. It's easier to DEILD if you're lucid because you know the dream's ending, but harder when you wake up from a normal dream. After all, you have to catch yourself and make sure you don't move or anything.
Yeah I have a terrible tendency to open my eyes or move over or look at the clock immediately upon waking up. Guess I should train myself by waking myself up with an alarm and telling myself not to move.
In my opinion, you don't wake up fully. The times I've DEILDed, I can hardly even remember the waking up part. Maybe it's just me, I don't know. I remember this one morning my mom didn't go to work, she came into my room to wake me up. She was saying, "Chris. Chris wake up, the food is ready". I was in the middle of a non lucid dream and for some reason I woke up very slowly into the blackness, I was aware I had just woken up without moving. I woke up fully. I could feel my body in bed, I could hear my little brothers jumping around. Anyways, I stood like that for a while and nothing happened. I'm sure my REM period wasn't over because I was just in the middle of a dream. So I guess my point is that you're not supposed to wake up fully. It's more of a still in dreamland kind of awakening. If anyone has FULLY woke up and still managed to DEILD, please let me know. It's my belief that even if you stay still like a rock, if your mind wakes up fully you're screwed.
So the key to not waking up fully must be to not have any outside disturbances that bring your mind out of the dream state into reality again. I've heard that as soon as you wake up you should already be imagining your previous dream and the DEILD should begin within seconds. So yeah, judging based on yours and everyone else's experiences, I think you're right Elucive. So, how did you practice doing it? My dream recall is fine I can remember at least one dream every night, so is there any other technical advice you could give me?
I've never really practiced it, they just happened because I was lucid in the last dream and remembered to keep still. However, I AM practicing now, since I got myself a DEILD alarm. So what I've been doing is taking "fake" naps, and when the alarm goes off, I stay perfectly still. The problem is, these last two nights I've woken up before the alarm, and it ends up ringing as I'm trying to go back to sleep. It's pretty fucking annoying. If it keeps happening, I'm just going to practice staying still when I wake up naturally. Anyways, once you start practicing, you'll find out whether you need to visualize, or if it happens on it's own. Everyones different! No worries though. If the conditions are right, you're going to have a lucid.
Alright sounds good. I generally wake up about 5 hours after going to bed because I take a drink of water before going to sleep. It's then after this period that I start dreaming. It's weird lately I've been having a dream then waking up within an hour then doing it again and so forth, been having 2-4 dreams a morning because of this. Guess I have lots of time to practice lol.
Wow, that's perfect. Keep us posted!