Thread: Post your personal technique to add to a Collective Tutorial

I have read numerous times in numerous threads that sometimes techniques work for some people and not for others. Is this because the technique was faulty? No b/c it obviously worked for others.
This can be summed up by the fact that we are all different and are stronger and weaker in different areas than one another, we react to things different, we think differently, and we learn things differently, for the most part. For instance have you had someone in school/work/social network try to explain something to you that is not really sticking and then maybe someone you know better tries explaining it a different way then it suddenly just clicks. Both people are saying the same things, there saying it differently. The same thing can happen with a tutorial. Your past and memories have an effect on how you perceive and understand information.
Sooo it is my firm believe, and i'm sure others share a similar belief, every technique should be unique however they all consist of basic understandings that get personalized with time and effort.
That's where this thread comes in. If you please, I would like everyone to write there own personal technique and some of the things from other techniques they use that has really helped them. After a while we will see some variety, there will definitely be similarities but maybe someone else has a variation of your technique that you will not have thought to try and try it and it work. Who knows? If this gets big enough people could just choose one technique then build from there with all of the other combinations that work for them. It will be a collective of information that will likely change everyone who put into it's technique, if it gets big enough, b/c it is very likely someone has tried something you haven't and somewhat likely that it will work for you.

Thank you every one that contributes and every one who took the time to read this.

Have a wonderful day.

Basicly it's all about intentions and trying to get lucid. The techniques are there to have something to believe in. Some people are born to be good at this naturally, others have to develop the skill from scratch.

For DILD's, i notice that when I'm not too obsessed with RC every few minutes but instead focus on awareness throughout the day at random times or times when things seem dream-like, my LD frequency in DILD'ing increases dramatically. Stress throughout the day doesn't help at all and also intention setting before sleeping is good. All my DILDs have also been WBTB. My WILD technique is similar to Jeff777's free fall technique and I just let myself fall asleep and try to catch myself before losing consciousness, if i get lucky i end up in a WILD, of course i'm still a beginner and my techniques still need to be refined

Originally Posted by Matte87

Basicly it's all about intentions and trying to get lucid. The techniques are there to have something to believe in. Some people are born to be good at this naturally, others have to develop the skill from scratch.

Very true but even naturals could benefit from a technique or even a trick like saying "I want to remember my dreams when I wake up" before sleep. There are different techniques that basically teach the same thing in different ways, some things work better for some than others b/c it better suited to how they understand information. I think even naturals have a "technique," they just don't know their using one, we can somewhat recreate a naturals "technique" with the All-Day-Awareness technique.

To Lawilahd. Congratulations on finding a routine that is showing results, I'd like to say I'm a little farther than a beginner and I know my technique still needs a lot of refinement, in fact I don't think I will ever stop refining my technique I'm sure there will always be new discoveries and more to learn. Which I think is kind of cool b/c that means I can keep getting better and better.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f49/all-da...gyoshi-113253/

I'm unsure of whether different aspects of techniques can be successfully combined, as some involve WILD, MILD, DILD...

Anyways, I'm with lawilahd. My DILD technique is in my signature; I essentially stop at random points during the day to be aware. At these times I slow down as much as I can. Already I'm seeing a problem with combining techniques, as Yoshi's DILD method involves being casually aware all day, but mine is to be aware more intensely less of the time. That can't really be combined.

Originally Posted by Puffin

I'm unsure of whether different aspects of techniques can be successfully combined, as some involve WILD, MILD, DILD...

Anyways, I'm with lawilahd. My DILD technique is in my signature; I essentially stop at random points during the day to be aware. At these times I slow down as much as I can. Already I'm seeing a problem with combining techniques, as Yoshi's DILD method involves being casually aware all day, but mine is to be aware more intensely less of the time. That can't really be combined.

But see right there now there are two ways of basically doing the same technique. In Yoshi's tut he edited it later and added that people should start with doing sessions of 15-20min to get started. The purpose isn't to particularly combine methods just learn from one another, the combining of technique is just an expected side effect, among others. It also kind of seemed like you were trying to combine the same technique, it is the Awareness technique, you just do it differently, which is to be expected. I have combined MILD & WBTB w/ WILDing that uses anchors, my white noise, and also do meditation in the day that includes the Awareness technique; I always thought techniques were meant to be combined and refined as to learn what works best for oneself.

Actually, I didn't combine my technique with anything, it came out a good eight months or so before Yoshi's. But I do see your point; techniques can definitely be combined. I've been using MILD with awareness and it's a mighty good combination; actually, MILD can be paired with mostly anything because it's mostly a mindset and it doesn't take long to become used to how it works. WBTB with WILD is almost an imperative, too.