Thread: How do you usually become lucid?

It's really rare for me to LD at the moment - it's almost like random chance.

Originally Posted by DreamscapeGoat

It's really rare for me to LD at the moment - it's almost like random chance.

Like you can't even remember becoming lucid?

Almost, yeah - The few times I have, I usually just keep going with the dream, or the dream ends abruptly.

I use every method that is common. I RC in real life 6 to 30 times a day as an ingrained routine. Sometimes I do so in a dream and I get lucid. I always try DEILD if I wake in the night, often I go lucid this way. As I fall asleep I always use mantras, so MILD is fairly common. I only do 2 or 3 serious WILD attempts a week, but get my share that way. I guess this is the shot gun method, covering every base. No tool should be discarded.

Mostly, when I become lucid, I just know that it is a dream - as if I had a sixth sense for which kind of universe surrounds me. This typically happens for no obvious reason at all.

Sometimes lucidity comes about because of reasoning: e.g. asking myself the question "why must one climb over such high walls just to walk down the street in a normal city"?

And, occasionally, the dream announces itself with a blast: like once when I was "awakened" inside the dream by a jet of very wet water hitting me unaware on the back of my head.

Constant rc for 100% lucidity rate. Though I suppose also a combination of that and whatever it is called when you wake up then immediately wild back into the dream. Wild from the start is rare though, I often have a small blackout period when I initially fall asleep and then immediately become lucid and stabilize when the dream forms.

Most of my lucid dreams have started as False Awakenings, but I recognize them very easily so this has never been a problem at all (on the contrary!").
I do sometimes have spontaneous lucids or half-lucids though, where I either understand that I am dreaming or doubt that I really am awake.

No single usual way here, but most often i either become lucid spontaneously by 'feeling dream' or by realizing something is off or by WILD or DEILD.

I go lucid every time with Senses Initiated Induced Lucid Dream(SSILD) http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...eam-ssild.html
[replaced outgoing link with link to identical tutorial that's hosted here on DV]

I became lucid only because of awareness, never had a single one because of reality checks or by recognizing dream sign .

I nearly allways become lucid without a proper reason.
I don't even RC regularly.
I just know I'm in a dream...

training self-awareness and prospective memory and other techniques till they reach a good amount, and by then, the idea of lucid dreaming would be firmly fixed in the unconscious brain. Then it's all about motivation for having lucid dreams and experiencing amazing events. Hope I've helped

[QUOTE=ZippLord47;2064183]I go lucid every time with Senses Initiated Induced Lucid Dream(SSILD)]

Same with me. SSILD is starting to get me lucids and will probably get me many more to come. <:

I went with dream sign, because there's usually something that just tells me that I'm in a dream. I don't always have consistent dream signs... it could be anything. Something just tells me that I'm in a dream. Sometimes I'll do a reality check after that, but normally it's easy to tell that it's a dream after the thought pops up. Never really put much effort into it since it has always happened. I think that's because I'm always asking myself if I'm in a dream or not, so the thought comes up in dreams frequently.

Different - what seems to work best at the moment is WBTB and trying to do a WILD - which I didn´t manage yet - but in the following dream then comes along a DILD sometimes - and a better controllable, longer and clearer one than the spontaneous DILDs.
Especially I seem to have quite good day-time memory access like this - probably because of being awake shortly or directly before that dream.
There was once a FA from the first dream-part of this next dream - at a friend´s place.
Then came a real awakening - then the next dream with once again waking up there - and that made me lucid then - thinking no - not again waking up at my friends place - this is a dream!!

I had some pure DILDs as well lately - all different - either out of the blue or once now with finally recognizing one of my most persistent dream-signs - the house I spent my youth in, and which does not stand any more. And once because I was making huuge leaps and realizing, this I usually can not do.
As said above - these are usually mini-DILDs - I don´t remember full stabilization technique or TOTMs before they fade on me.
Plan for tonight - once more WILD try and with SSILD.

Dont suppose anyone can clear this up for me?

I think I WILD... Would that mean for instance what I normally do... I set an alarm to wake me up in the middle of the night normally a couple of hours before i would actually wake up in the morning... So I wake up and drift myself back off again, however I drift into a lucid Dream this way. Again however recently when I attain the Lucid Dream feeling to secure it I would Jump up and down and see if I can float in the air or punch my hands out.

So am I WILD'ing? Or doing a reality check or a bit of both?

Also another question (Sorry still new at it all)

...I find it very difficult to attain a lucid dream at my normal nightly sleep hours. Instead (I work split shifts through out the day) ...I almost always get them when I have an afternoon nap and I need to be lying on my back and also almost always have sleep paralysis when sleeping during the day.

Is there any reason for this?

Thanks guys.

Mostly by entering "awareness" mode: something catches my attention and reminds me to "feel" the world, ending up lucid. I use WBTB with WILD + MILD when I want to do something specific. If WILD fails, MILD usually kicks in during the dream because all the visualization I did while falling asleep.

Originally Posted by Mckellion

Dont suppose anyone can clear this up for me?

I think I WILD... Would that mean for instance what I normally do... I set an alarm to wake me up in the middle of the night normally a couple of hours before i would actually wake up in the morning... So I wake up and drift myself back off again, however I drift into a lucid Dream this way. Again however recently when I attain the Lucid Dream feeling to secure it I would Jump up and down and see if I can float in the air or punch my hands out.

So am I WILD'ing? Or doing a reality check or a bit of both?

That would be a WILD. for instance, if you where in a dream and saw a dream sign, you would know that you are dreaming, and would do a reality check to make sure, that would be a MILD. but if you did a reality check because of your habit, and realize that you're in a dream, that would be a reality check induced lucid dream. The WILD is what made you feel in a dream, and you know you're in one, so you do a reality check just to make sure.It's definitely a WILD

Originally Posted by LouaiB

That would be a WILD. for instance, if you where in a dream and saw a dream sign, you would know that you are dreaming, and would do a reality check to make sure, that would be a MILD. but if you did a reality check because of your habit, and realize that you're in a dream, that would be a reality check induced lucid dream. The WILD is what made you feel in a dream, and you know you're in one, so you do a reality check just to make sure.It's definitely a WILD

Thanks a lot for clearing that up for me great stuff.

WILD = Wake Initiated Lucid Dream
It's where you fall directly into an LD while awake.

MILD is similar but using a mantra.

DEILD or WBTB is where you wake up, then fall directly back into the dream from a semi-waking state.

Originally Posted by Mylynes

WILD =

DEILD or WBTB is where you wake up, then fall directly back into the dream from a semi-waking state.

Previous member says I WILD.

However This is exactly how my process goes for lucid dreaming. I simply wake up by an alarm semi awake and drift back to a dream which I turn lucid.

Originally Posted by Mckellion

Previous member says I WILD.

However This is exactly how my process goes for lucid dreaming. I simply wake up by an alarm semi awake and drift back to a dream which I turn lucid.

It is a WILD, but if you want to be more specific, a DEILD. Also, in your case above, did you have that lucid dreaming feeling from the start of the dream (directly after the DEILD) , and made sure by reality checking? if so ,its definetly a WILD( DEILD to be specific). If you felt like the DEILD didn't make you enter a lucid dream, but rather it was a normal dream but you felt that lucid dreaming feeling, and knew you where dreaming, then that would be a DILD. Either way it wasn't because of the reality check since what made you lucid was that lucid dreaming feeling (Either from the WILD or you are used to it), not a spontaneous reality check because of force of habit. Hope I cleared that up for you, if not, feel free to ask any question that you feel would clear your confusion. Happy LDs

When I didn't understand what was happening to me (as a child and until I found Dreamviews) vibrations would always wake me up out of my sleep. Now that I have access to all this knowledge on DV, I usually become lucid through WBTB & WILD method (King Yoshi and Gab method). I have to place my intent to have a successful WILD then I have to sleep for awhile then do a WBTB. I then have to stay up for at least 45 minutes and then lay back down with intent on WILDing. It is tough because sometimes I'm just laying there for thirty to forty minutes. Success usually (or should I say always) comes when I have the chance to sleep in and I always practice RCing.

Note: I read and re-read the tutorials here on DV and I always find something in them that I have missed or I can perfect on. I believe my true success comes from reading the posts from everyone else and the support I get here on DV .

Wild ;3