Alright, I wanna try this
I'm Conscience and I have already tried learning lucid dreaming 2 and a half years ago. I never had a lucid dream before
I was close, I think... I tried WILD and MILD (DILD not so much, coz I forgot to do RC and I never heard of Daytime Awareness back in 2011)
WILD was the closest. My body was sleeping and I was trying to "enter a dream", but at my first few attempts there was too much fear, because the feeling of sleep paralysis crept me out. I got used to that, but then the feeling of enthusiasm stopped me from falling asleep... I was always thinking "It's finally happening", then my heart rate got high and I got nervous (positively) and yea, that's it... I just "woke up" then, instead of falling asleep

but this thread isn't about WILD... it's about my new DILD plans
I just read KingYoshi's All Day Awereness Thread and I thought that's perfect for me... I think I would be good at WILD too, but only if I knew what a lucid dream feels like... and I can't just start with WILD I think


Day Awareness
I'll try to observe my surroundings and be aware of everything when I'm outside... in my dreams I'm normally not in rooms, so I'll focus on the outside world.
Of course I wanna question everything and see if something looks odd... if there is something strange, I'll do an RC.

Reality Checks:
I kinda like most RCs... I wanna do them while I'm doing something else, to remember them (eg: before brushing my teeth, when I'm looking at my phone, when I see a bird). My biggest problem with RCs: I always forgot them... this time I wanna remember them so I'll link them to some everyday-activities
My favorites are:
  • Counting Fingers
  • Thumb-through-Hand
  • "How did I get here? What was I doing 5 minutes before?"
  • "If this was a dream, I could levitate"
  • Books/Clocks


Mantras:
I still have to think a bit about mantras. Yesterday I used the Mantra "When I fall asleep, I'll raise my hands, stare at my fingers, count them and realize I'm just dreaming"... it didn't work
I'll probably try different mantras every day. But I definitely wanna avoid words like "will" and "not".
"I'm dreaming", "I have a lucid dream tonight", "I remember what I'm dreaming", "My dream today is vivid and intense", etc
I should really try WBTB too, combined with those mantras.

Dream Journal:
I've already had a DJ in 2011/2012... I started dreaming more, but not much. I had a few very intense dreams and around a dream every second day. I consistently had this Journal for 3 months, after these 3 months my dreams were clearer and I could remember them fairly good.
I hope I don't have to start all over again... If I'm lucky those skills come back after awhile, so I don't have to train for 3 months again, but we'll see

My entries are going to have:
  • Date:
  • Length of Sleep:
  • Techniques I've used:
  • Dream summary:
  • Vividness/Awareness/Length:
  • Emotions:
  • Dream Signs:
  • Tags:


oh, yea, I wanna use tags. I don't think I'll have much time in the mornings to write my dream down. I'll write some tags down, at least 3, but as many as possible, and then I'll try to remember the dream with the tags in the evening when I have time. It might not be the best way, but I'll try to write the tags as detailed as possible and think about the dream during breakfast...
I figured thinking about the dream might be just as good as writing it down. (But I'll write it down later that day anyway)


so that's it, that's my plan... I'll use this and read my plan until I know it by heart, I'll try to keep me motivated for a few months.
Feel free to criticize anything you want.