Here's a new technique for everyone, its called Ailment Induced Lucid Dream. All you have to do is gorge heavily on heavier foods very late at night and go to bed. With any luck you will wake up writhing in agony and have a couple hours of miserable insomnia. On the bright side, for some reason, this seems to create inadvertently the prime circumstance for having an LD or AP. I have had about 5-6 lucid experiences ranging from being lifted off my bed (AP) to becoming lucid in a dream all with varying success, but everytime it was the result of me having miserable insomnia due to some stomach problem or bad cold symtoms like last night. It has happened now 3 nights in a row, then I become excited at my newfound ease, but then when the symptoms subside, I no longer have success.

I believe this may indicate that at least for me, and perhaps others out there, if you are attempting either the MILD or WILD techniques, it may be better to actually wake up for a more substantial amount of time than 20 mins or so and also, it is important to really wake yourself up. Everytime I've had success (during sickness) the circumstances were
1. I woke up and tried to go back to bed for 1-3 hours (sometimes longer&#33
2. I was very awake (agitated)