Thread: Practicing illusory body for 30 days

I think Sageous has a good point, and think that is one of the pitfalls of this method. I also think that semi-lucids occur regardless in most lucid dreamers, so if illusory body transforms many of our NLDs to SLDs, I'm not sure if that's really a problem (I'm not bothered by it, anyway).

I would like to point out that RCing every now and again does not strike me as disingenuous; it rather strikes me as a support--the same way counting breaths in meditation is a support. We might experience something truly bizarre during the waking state, and a RC would be a fine idea at this moment. On the other hand, RCing constantly with this method (illusory body) would defeat the purpose. Awareness is what we are cultivating anyway; I think many of us have fallen into the trap of using the RC as a replacement for awareness, rather than a support, which results in some truly foolish dream scenarios. If we are practicing moment-to-momement awareness, with a focus on awareness of dream imagery, lucid dreams will occur. It's just a matter of how often this happens, and whether or not it outperforms constant RCing.

Had a really nice lucid last night. Early on, I thought I could hear wind outside my bedroom, and had thought of competing stimuli from waking and dream world, I really looked into the dream, and found myself saying, "this is a dream, weather waking or sleeping, it's spun by what I pay attention to". Felt like illusionary form practice, felt v lucid and clear...stabilised well by this