Thread: "I'm going to try that tonight!"

I think I must have read just about every thread on Dreamviews about new techniques. So often, I read a reply along the lines of, "I'm going to try that tonight!" and the poster never replies on their success with the technique.

What I'd like to ask people is: what techniques have you read about (can be from Dreamviews or elsewhere) that, when applied, gave you positive (and hopefully consistent) results?

Well, I'm not sure of one technique that works consistently for me, but I have had success with the Wake Back To Bed technique WBTB which is very popular among other Lucid Dreamers. However this technique in my experience isn't really suitable for someone who needs to get up for work or Uni the next day.

I'm working on the Finger Induced Lucid Dreaming technique at the moment, I've made two attempts two nights in a row. The first night was unsuccessful, and although the second night was also unsuccessful I did have some profound dreams where I actually become Lucid in a dream I was having inside my actual Dream! I'll be continuing to practice this technique to see if I can actually achieve full Lucidity with it.

Something I've noticed is that in most of my Lucid dreams it's been my hands which have made me realize I'm dreaming. If you look at your hands in a dream it's like a switch to activate lucidity in your dream as a lot of the time they don't look right. It's an almost instant realization in my experience. So my advice? Start doing lots of reality checks, I look at my hands a lot so that if I have a false awakening (which often happens) I'll look at them whether I think I'm dreaming or not.

The NLP Mp3 from Mosh did sth. for me after the second night (yesterday) so lets see how this progresses

Originally Posted by tulamidan

The NLP Mp3 from Mosh did sth. for me after the second night (yesterday) so lets see how this progresses

Hey tulamidan, you don't happen to have a link to that MP3 do you?

A WBTB with reality checks and a lot of reading/thinking about lucid dreaming to help induce a DILD was always what worked best for me. The only WILD induction technique I ever had any luck with was FILD...and only once. All other WILDs have been the result of spontaneously, by virtue of just being very tired, falling asleep and going into REM almost right away. I've also had a few DILDs resulting from WILD attempts, where I "fell asleep" in a nonlucid dream and had a lucid dream. They usually ended in a nonlucid false awakening. I call those faux-WILDs.

Try VILD when you go to bed at night.

I just tried it last night - Got relaxed, and then just started imagining I was washing my car. It was reallly easy to visualise.

It wasn't vivid like a dream, but it was just really easy to do.


Then in wake up like 5 hours after you go to bed and get the Lucid timer.swf going on preset #4.

Now just fall asleep and let the timer do the work. To give you a boost you could do some more visualising while you're falling asleep. This helps alot.

Maybe learn a small yoga routine and visualise yourself doing it as you drift off.

You'll find it on the thread in the induction forum http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=33187. It keeps changing so you better have a look there directly.
Btw. last night it didn't do much for me...

Originally Posted by tulamidan

You'll find it on the thread in the induction forum http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=33187. It keeps changing so you better have a look there directly.
Btw. last night it didn't do much for me...

Well, I'll give it a go tonight and see how it works out. I'll keep you guys posted if I have any success with it.