Thread: Hello!

Hi Ikkalebob, welcome to Dreamviews!

My cat's run across my keyboard before, but all I got was caps lock and random jibberish. |D

What induction method(s) are you using (or going to be using) to have your lucid dreams? If you're just getting back into it, I'd suggest combining whatever techniques you choose with MILD; it helped me end a long dryspell which might also help people coming back to LDing. Also check out the Dreamviews Wiki if you haven't yet; there's a lot of good information in there.

If you have any questions feel free to ask!

Thanks for the reply!
I intend to use reality checks and a dream journal - which are a bit of a no-brainer - but one technique that has worked well in the past is this: You wake up in the night, and because you are drowsy you can fall back to sleep easily in any position. I can't fall to sleep on my back in the evening, but its easy to do in the middle of the night and I get more vivid and lucid dreams on my back. Like a WILD but a little tweaked. Does that sound like it would work?

Originally Posted by Ikkalebob

Thanks for the reply!
I intend to use reality checks and a dream journal - which are a bit of a no-brainer - but one technique that has worked well in the past is this: You wake up in the night, and because you are drowsy you can fall back to sleep easily in any position. I can't fall to sleep on my back in the evening, but its easy to do in the middle of the night and I get more vivid and lucid dreams on my back. Like a WILD but a little tweaked. Does that sound like it would work?

Hi and welcome to DV..thats usually the way i do it, do you always wake in the night? i do ..everynight i usually wake about 4 times without alarms or anything and this enables me to WILD with a tweak, or usually i wake up to SP which takes me right into a lucid without even trying

Originally Posted by Ikkalebob

Thanks for the reply!
I intend to use reality checks and a dream journal - which are a bit of a no-brainer - but one technique that has worked well in the past is this: You wake up in the night, and because you are drowsy you can fall back to sleep easily in any position. I can't fall to sleep on my back in the evening, but its easy to do in the middle of the night and I get more vivid and lucid dreams on my back. Like a WILD but a little tweaked. Does that sound like it would work?

I've never heard that one's sleeping position can actually affect the vividness (or lucidity) of dreams before! I totally know what you mean, by being able to fall asleep easily in whatever position you're in. If laying on your back gives you vivid dreams and lucidity, although I'm totally unsure as to how a sleeping position can raise your awareness to the point of being lucid, then by all means keep doing it! Maybe it has to do with the fact that, although you're physically tired, you're subconsciously more aware when you're on your back because it's normally an uncomfortable position for you.

Originally Posted by Puffin

I've never heard that one's sleeping position can actually affect the vividness (or lucidity) of dreams before! I totally know what you mean, by being able to fall asleep easily in whatever position you're in. If laying on your back gives you vivid dreams and lucidity, although I'm totally unsure as to how a sleeping position can raise your awareness to the point of being lucid, then by all means keep doing it! Maybe it has to do with the fact that, although you're physically tired, you're subconsciously more aware when you're on your back because it's normally an uncomfortable position for you.

i do not know this, however i have read on the free-falling technique that it is scientifically proven that you are more likely to go into SP when on one's back.
i think that may be what he/she means, but i dunno