Thread: Am I close? Felt tingling while trying DEILD

Originally Posted by Secret Neo

Last night I was having a dream with myself and someone I know who I haven't seen for like a year, we were doing stuff and hanging out. But anyway, when i started to wake I realized it was all a dream but i tried to re-enter using the DEILD method. I felt a tingling sensation and an overwhelming euphoria of vibrating. Sadly I was still holding onto a single thread of consciousness and it was if I got pulled back into my bed.

This a sign of progress?

YEP. You were almost in SP, a doorway to WILD.

ah.

i found aout about lucid dreaming a week ago, i had a full sp that night, got scared and kicked myself out of it.
i found out what it was, that it was a gatway to a wild, and several nights after that i would lay there motionless, get emersed in a thought, forget about my body and start to slip away,

then suddenly BAM, i would become aware of my body, i would get a tingly sensation all over as if my body is being kick started back to life. im very sure it was a sleep paralysis i was entering but coulnt quite get there.

i think i am experiencing the same thing as you did secret neo.

the big question is, what state of mind does one have to be in to fully slip into a SP.
the problem (i think) with me and neo here is, how do we stop ourselves snaping out as we start to enter the SP, how do we maintain the trail of thought?


here is a quick idea which i might try, u should try it to.
ok, so i find that if i can keep my mind deeply emersed in one thing i could enter a SP, it is when my mind jumps betwen different topics that doesnt help (with you you became deeply emersed in the previous dream and thought about that for ages, correct?) so try watching your favorite film before you go to bed.
possible effects;

1) because you love the film so much, you will get DEEPLY emersed in thoughts about it.

2) because you love the film + you just watched it, nothing else will be in your head, so you are less likely to jump to different thoughts.


i think the key to SP is deep concentration on one thought to distract from the body, can anyone else give any tips as to how to achieve this deep concentration?

Originally Posted by Secret Neo

Last night I was having a dream with myself and someone I know who I haven't seen for like a year, we were doing stuff and hanging out. But anyway, when i started to wake I realized it was all a dream but i tried to re-enter using the DEILD method. I felt a tingling sensation and an overwhelming euphoria of vibrating. Sadly I was still holding onto a single thread of consciousness and it was if I got pulled back into my bed.

This a sign of progress?

Well you were in SP if your body was vibrating. When that happens you need to lay down and forget about it and just let it happen.

First few times you get it, its scary, but you being to get used to it and after a while you look forward to it

Well I tried to let it just happen, i never found it scary, i knew what was going on sort of but i think i was just over-focused and trying to hard to re-enter.

Originally Posted by pond weed

here is a quick idea which i might try, u should try it to.
ok, so i find that if i can keep my mind deeply emersed in one thing i could enter a SP, it is when my mind jumps betwen different topics that doesnt help (with you you became deeply emersed in the previous dream and thought about that for ages, correct?) so try watching your favorite film before you go to bed.
possible effects;

1) because you love the film so much, you will get DEEPLY emersed in thoughts about it.

2) because you love the film + you just watched it, nothing else will be in your head, so you are less likely to jump to different thoughts.

thanks for the advice and ive tried it but it never works out for me. nearly every night b4 bed i watch reruns of Lost and I never have dreams or anything with it.

I don't know what SP feels like, but I know that when I AP I feel vibrations throughout my entire body. That's what you may have been experiencing, or at least the begining of it.

I think that anything that differs from a normal dream is progress. Even if it's not a full lucid, the fact that something new is happening is a good sign.

I haven't watched Lost for a couple of months but I keep having bloody weird dreams relating to it!

Not lucid, mind...

Originally Posted by Secret Neo

Well I tried to let it just happen, i never found it scary, i knew what was going on sort of but i think i was just over-focused and trying to hard to re-enter.



thanks for the advice and ive tried it but it never works out for me. nearly every night b4 bed i watch reruns of Lost and I never have dreams or anything with it.

me to, ever since i had the first sleep paralysis, i REALLY want to to happen again, and i think im trying to hard to get it again, im worried iv forgotten how to do it, because it only happened since i heard about LD.

-though it what was wierd last night is i decided to listen to my dream journal in bed (i use tape recorder) and as i listened to it, keeping my body motionless, i felt very submerged in the thoughts of pervious dreams. i think it was working as i started to feel a bit wierd, but i had to stop the tape recorder which meant moving my body