Long time lurker, haven't posted in awhile. Found the "Lucid Sleep Dreams Self Hypnosis & Guided Meditation" iPhone app by Erick Brown couple of days ago and thought I'd share about it. It didn't have any ratings, and at $3.99 it's a little pricey. I tried it, and had success the second night. I managed to float, push through a wall like I was a ghost, and change the scenery a little before I forgot about being lucid.

You start the app by choosing a theme (Stream, Ocean, Rain, Music), what you'd like to happen at the end of the session (Wake up, sleep, delayed wake), and decide if you'd like a long or short induction. After this, Brown leads you in guided relaxation. Once relaxed, he then guides you in visualizing yourself in a comfortable place, and has you imagine yourself doing various G-rated lucid activities. In one of the themes (they have different stories), I summoned a DC, dismissed her, and floated off the ground. I've also started noticing the color red in my waking world, which reminds me to reality check.

Brown is easy to listen to, but he doesn't quite jolt me into real-body awareness most of the time. The only time this fails is when he has me breathe in, smelling the world around me (I usually respond in real life, when I should be doing it with my dream body). Even tired, I am able to stay awake to the end of his story, by which point I'm typically in HH. Because of this, I think some of you who're better than I am at WILDing might find this a good aid for that.

I've used the app four or five times (before bed, and after about 5 hours of sleep). There's a recommendation of using it for three weeks, so that all that suggestion has time to do its work, I guess. I'll keep using it, and let you know how it goes.


-- AMFW