Testing SSILD for a month

Going to have to have to stop my attempts of SSILD for the next 3 nights as I have exams.

I've been studying so much that I don't have too much time for lucid dreaming, I'll get back on track with everything in 2-3 days once the bulk of it is done. I won't count last night as an attempt either, since my efforts to actually get lucid at the moment are quite low due to exams, haven't done a reality check all day :shock:

Anyways, good luck to the rest of you

Total Attempts: 12
Semi-lucids: 1
Lucids: 2
FA: 1

Day 10

Didn't even try last night because I was so tired. I ended up just setting my alarm for school.

Attempts: 10
FA: 2
LD: 2

I'm guna jump in I know I'm a bit late but I think I'll give ssild a good run and post up my results as well because this is a seriously underrated technique, I'll post tomorrow as I'll start tonight.

Hardest part will be being awake enough for the cycles I sleep like a rock usually I'm going to have to do star jumps or something after getting out of bed haha.

Day 11

Uncessfull. Waking up and getting a drink of water obviously dosent wake me up enough to do the cycles completely. I'm just gonna stay awake longer than usual.

Attempts: 11
FA: 2
LD: 2

Wow! Sounds like a good idea to record our progress on ssild here!
The last time I practiced ssild was 2 weeks ago with a little modification. As I always felt too sleepy during the cycles, I raised my arm during the cycles to avoid falling to sleep. The results were vivid dreams. I am going to combine ssild with rolling my eyes toward the 3d eye (on forehead) to be more alert during the cycles! It worth to practice it for 30 days!!!! Wish me luck!

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Originally Posted by yaya

Wow! Sounds like a good idea to record our progress on ssild here!
The last time I practiced ssild was 2 weeks ago with a little modification. As I always felt too sleepy during the cycles, I raised my arm during the cycles to avoid falling to sleep. The results were vivid dreams. I am going to combine ssild with rolling my eyes toward the 3d eye (on forehead) to be more alert during the cycles! It worth to practice it for 30 days!!!! Wish me luck!

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Wow that actually sounds like a good idea with the raising your arm. Hopefully this will help me out because I have the same problem with staying awake. Good luck.

Day 1

went to bed kind of late but I still gave it a go, I woke up stayed awake for about 5 minutes then started the cycles I think I only made it to around 3 cycles and fell asleep.. I have a vague memory of trying to roll out of my body (that's how I do it sometimes) but in the end FAILED! :(

Attempts:1
FA:0
LD:0

I'm moving to a different thread that was recently started. It was created as Matt1, who created this. Anyways they're testing ssild in combination with fild. Bye

Day 1=

I am practicing 2 different LD techniques. I only post the ssild results here.
Although I was awake while doing the cycles but my mind was blank and it was in dullness! After some seconds of practicing the cycles, my mind stopped and It was frozen. But I had very vivid dreams.
I hope it gradually increase the awareness day after day!

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Originally Posted by LDleader

I'm moving to a different thread that was recently started. It was created as Matt1, who created this. Anyways they're testing ssild in combination with fild. Bye

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Bye

Day 2

Woke up did the cycles, had vivid dreams and became lucid for a moment but it was all black I could get tactile sensations like touching things but couldn't hold onto it long enough and lost it -_- dont think I can count that as a lucid dream I'll keep my tally nice and simple and only count full lucid dreams for the sake of showing the effectiveness of ssild.

I have had good success with ssild but i think it relies heavily on wakefulness and also hitting rem quickly after cycles, I have faith! During the weekend I may not be able to post results or attempt it if I have late nights so might have to continue next week.

Attempts:2
LD:0
FA:0

I'm going to move to the other thread which is using SSILD + FILD together, will give me a chance to test another technique.

Good luck to everyone :)

Day 2=
Just vivid dreams.
To avoid the dullness during the cycles, I tried to count every stimuli which resulted in higher awareness.

Good luck werty52!

Day 3=
Super super vivid dreams
I noticed something is wrong about the dream but I wasn't aware enough to do a reality check

Day 4=
Vivid dreams and FA

Doing this technique is only possible if I raise my arm to not fall sleep. After 4 cycles I allow my arm to fall and then after doing 2 more cycles, I pass out.

Day 5=

More vivid and longer dream than ever.

I tried to do the cycles a little bit faster to avoid my mind to wander. In fact, when there were not new stimulation about my senses, I moved to the next sense. Visual and body senses were more intense than hearing. In fact, I don't hear anything unusual during my attempts.

Day 6=

Very looooong and viiiiiviiid dreams but no LD.
Anyway, these non LDs were even better than LD dreams!

Slept through my alarm last night :( so I wont count that as a 'day' but I'm determined to put ssild through the paces will post up how tonights attempt goes.

Day 7=

1 FA . Also the duration and quality of my dreams increases every day but the increasing in my awareness is not enough yet to yield an LD.
(Ahahaha! In one of my dreams, I was begging money from people in street!!!ohhhhh nooooo! That was very vivid and I could even feel the texture of the bills!)

^ hahaha its funny the random dreams our brains come up with.

Day 3

After doing the cycles I fell asleep and woke up again, got annoyed it hadn't worked but did rc just for the sake of it and I was dreaming! I got up and climbed out the window of my room and started to stabilize by touching everything then my son woke me up crying! Arh! So frustrating :(

Attempts: 3
LD:1
FA:1

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Originally Posted by LucidEveryNight

^ hahaha its funny the random dreams our brains come up with.

Day 3

After doing the cycles I fell asleep and woke up again, got annoyed it hadn't worked but did rc just for the sake of it and I was dreaming! I got up and climbed out the window of my room and started to stabilize by touching everything then my son woke me up crying! Arh! So frustrating :(

Attempts: 3
LD:1
FA:1

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Congratulations! I can imagine how wonderful it was!!!! But..... not at the end!!!

Day 8=
Oh no! I forgot to raise my arm to not fall sleep and after 1 cycle, I started hibernating like a bear!

Day 4

Woke up splashed water on my face and felt like I was fully awake after 5 min, I layed down went through the quick cycles and then began the long cycles, I focused on hearing then focused on vision and after a few seconds dozed off, I woke up again and kept doing the cycles, thinking about it now could have been a FA! Im not sure though so I won't count that, from there I continued the cycles for a maybe a minute before I was dead to the world haha. No LD

A little note that I will add is i might make some little adjustments to the technique like I might try counting in my head while doing the cycles for the first 3 cycles which could mess it up but its worth a try to stay awake and also every single time i doze off and wake up I need to rc!

Attempts:4
LD:1
FA:1

Day 9=
I am tired of getting nearly the same results every day, Although there are some increasing in my awareness.

So I am going to combine this method with alarms! Many alarms!!!!
I will wake up after 4.5 hours of sleep and then after I do the cycles and falling asleep, I wake up every 10 mins with alarm (on auto dismiss mode).
Maybe I can catch a REM sleep.

Beside, I try to DEILD after I wake up. If it wouldn't be successful, then I will continue doing the SSILD cycles. Hahahaha

Day 10=

I had an experience of dreams which I had never before. Great recall and great quality of dreams but not lucid.

Eyo guys, stopped LDing for a while but plan to get back into it as lazily as possible, lol. Life has gotten a little busier but I see no point in not a trying a little to LD some.

anyways

Day 1 -

Did the cycles but couldn't focus very well on them, went back to sleep, starting to remember dreams a little better day by day.

0 Lds

SSILD + FILD wasn't working for me, so I'm switching back to this thread :). I guess I'll start from Day 1 again, starting tomorrow. I also have a little less on my plate to worry about so that's nice.

Daily goal:
1) WBTB after 4-5 hours of sleeping, preferably by naturally awakening during the night.
2) Do SSILD cycles every night during WBTB and every successive waking period thereafter.

I also would like to test something, I had my 4th lucid dream the other night after I did an alternate version of the SSILD cycles.
Basically everything was the same, woke up at 4ish I think, then got up and walked around. I was on a break from SSILD and FILD at the time, and I told myself 'eh, what's the harm in doing it once?', so I laid down in my bed and did a short run through of 1 cycle. 5 minutes later I did the same thing again, then another 5 minutes later. I got lucid in the dream after by just being more aware that things weren't quite right, which is how my SSILD lucids have all gone.

My plan is to try this occasionally to see if it works better for me as an individual.

Good luck to everyone