Thread: DILD - Dream Initiated Lucid Dream

Would you say that DILD works if you can't remember any dreams you have?

I've started doing reality checks since yesterday, and I understand that I won't start becoming lucid right off the bat. I have a mantra and my own RC (Humming a tune and tapping the back of my left hand with my right index finger according to the beat. If I fail this, I will know I'm dreaming), but the only thing that concerned me is that I never remember any dreams I have.

Is this not a problem or should I try another method?

Originally Posted by RisingSerperior

Would you say that DILD works if you can't remember any dreams you have?

I've started doing reality checks since yesterday, and I understand that I won't start becoming lucid right off the bat. I have a mantra and my own RC (Humming a tune and tapping the back of my left hand with my right index finger according to the beat. If I fail this, I will know I'm dreaming), but the only thing that concerned me is that I never remember any dreams I have.

Is this not a problem or should I try another method?

1. You can get a lucid dream on day one. Don't think it will take a long time. It might, but it also might not.

2. Why do you feel that RC would fail in a dream? I sing like Pavarotti in my dreams, yet can't carry a tune in waking life. In your dream, what you expect to happen is what will happen.

If you want to keep your RC, that's fine. But I would add a classic one, like looking at hands/counting fingers, thumb/palm, nose pinch.

3. Start a dream journal. Write down everything you remember, even if it's just a tiny detail. If you don't remember anything, write something like "my memory is great and recall getting better every day". Then start thinking about your dreams and remembering them. Set an intent to remember them. Use mantra, like "I wake up after every dream and I remember it". Know that we naturally wake up between sleep cycles, after REM is over. We just don't notice these microawakenings, because we never before cared for our dreams or sleep in general.

4. Lucid dreams are more like daytime events than dreams. Because they happen while we have access to our daytime memory part of the brain. So they are much easier to remember than non lucids. Just make sure if you wake up from a lucid dream, you get up to write it down. If you decide to sleep some more thinking you will remember it in the morning, don't rely on that.

5. Once you practiced one method, it's ok to start practicing for another one. To give yourself better chance to have LD. Since they all happen at different times, they will not clash.

Good luck and happy dreams!