Quick Silver
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After a lot of misses and less hits with DILDs, WILDS, EILD, Subliminal methods and everything that I could possibly throw at this every night, I finally found a method that seems to be working for me. I found out about this due to curiosity. At first I thought the first try was just luck but it seemed peculiar to me. But when I did this successfully 2 more times I found out that this simple method actually works! And it gave me more consistent hits then the DILD method alone.

Basically what I did yesterday was I just went about my day and wasn't even thinking about Lucid Dreaming because I was in the stage where I nearly gave up because I was going at it so long. But during a visit from a friend I suddenly had a random thought about how my friend keeps being portrayed in my dreams. Then I thought to myself.... "I will have a LD tonight." and I did it while knowing that I would, with no doubt in my mind. Then I would push that aside and forget about it while going about the rest of my day.

Sure enough, during a dream about Candy and awesome tasting cookies that were put left out on a living room table. And my NJROTC class (which seemed to much more like the military then a high school program.) I got mad at them because I wound up being the odd man out somehow. And I got in a verbal and almost physical argument with one of the higher ups. It seemed to me that a lot was at steak because we were in a parking garage complex and some kind of enemy was out there. After the argument I realized that I wasn't just the odd man out anymore, I now had to get out of there because I apparently did something worse. So I dashed out and I looked around my surroundings which were beautiful. It seemed to me that this was an entire base out in the middle of an awesome grassy field. The grass wasn't ridiculously long it was about as normal as my grass in the back yard. but the color green was more faded with the evening sky. The sun wasn't fully down yet. Suddenly the feeling of being in between awake and asleep came to me, it didn't hit me, it kind of faded in while I was running. Then I said to myself subconsciously, "there it is again! That feeling!" I stopped for a moment and thought, "Alright now I'm going to try running at sound speed!" I closed my eyes and I could feel myself running, (which was awesome!) but I couldn't feel that push or any speeding up. I opened my eyes again and sure enough I was going at normal pace. I thought that if I focused that I'd be able to. Then I consciously, and on purpose, tried to really do a Kamehameha wave, but all I got was a near black out because I really focused the crap out of it and pushed it. Then I thought to myself that I need to ground this dream more. So I ran over to the metal roof that was buried in the ground and that led to the other distant part of the base. It was an outside spot with all of this stuff. Basically I got the impression that this was a small refugee camp or something. I started to feel the metal and focus on it, but it was too much in a hurry because the sub thought conveniently came at the back of my mind that I'm going to lose control again. I could feel the metal on my hands which was a first because I never felt anything in my dreams like that before. I could feel the bumpy surface and everything, but I lost the control. Then some other random dreams followed.

Despite the fact that I messed up. I didn't fail, this was a learning experience that helps me so much now. Now I know it was that feeling that I got when I would wind up in limbo after being knocked silly out of a dream. It was the same feeling from the first Lucid I ever had. I remember it, and I felt it, and now I know this method works! It simply uses the weapon that I'm using already during my waking life, I believe that there isn't anything that I can't do as long as I put my mind to it, failure only happens if I let it. It's because of this state of mind that I'm excelling in my college classes and my art work is looking the way it should, and the way I want it. This technique supports DILD and I think it may support others as well I don't know but I'll check as I continue fooling around with this one. BOO YEAH!!!

I've been waiting and hoping for a new Ipod4g so I could do voice memos. I got it finally and I got my first dream recorded dow on it, the beauty of this is that now I can store and see my recordings.

However I nearly blew it. I had a false awakening this morning and I recorded everything in the dream. I did the same after I woke up a second time. I haven't had a false awakening in a while. And I could hear my radio in the BG in the dream which added to the realism of the dream. The only problem was I found a few things wrong; I was sleeping in a futon in the living room (we used to have one), I somehow materialized a book in front of me and was able to write everything down but the fact that I wrote it down left me in question, and the recording I did sounded differently and that woke me up. I need to do RCs when I wake up from now on, I should've been doing them from the start. And after next week I'm going to dive into WILDs again. In the meantime I have a new toy that I'm going to frack around with. I'm going to try a timmed recorder so I can literally tell my self that I am dreaming from the out side. I'm a light sleeper and I can hear things clearly in my sleep from the outside, so I should take advantage of that. 4:00 should be a good time to get started on.

I can get up to the HIs but it gets tricky after this, I start to fade into sleep and then I kind of wake up again and I'm back to the step before the HI. I've had the transition stage before, but that was before I started looking into LDs. So I should shoot for that same feeling. I'm counting myself into it, and it seems to work, but I trail off after the HI stage and become less focused. This is tricky, but at least this is progress I can actively control. I'll keep trying.

I've done alot of reading up on it and I've been telling myself to master DILDs first. But after this month I've had a change of heart. I'm going to master both WILDs and DILDs I need more control over my sleeping pattern and I'm truthfully (and regrettably) becoming impatient with the results that DILD is producing alone. I would either have an LD and then lose all of the minimal control that I already have by doing something stupid and extravagant (Like a Kamehameha wave). I'd rush the LD, or I'd become too exited and go into a free falling tailspin and get knocked so hard that i'm in twilight. And I have no say about what happens because of my excitement. So I'm going to preform and try WILDs every night before sleep (which I know is a no no; it should be 4 to 5 hours into sleep) until I get it. I already have some knowledge of what a partial WILD is because I've been up to the hallucination level more than once. But I used to get freaked out and wonder if I was going crazy because I'd hear voices so many times. So if anyone has any comments, criticisms, questions, concerns, let me know because I'm going into this head first, and I'm not stopping. Until I can do both or at least one of them.

I didn't obtain lucidity, however, when I get the chance here I'll post up the dreams. I had 3 and a half dreams, which is a record. I want to take it up higher so I can increase the probability of having a lucid. All I did the day before was guzzle a Big Gulp jug that was full of water through out the day. That increased my recall pretty well and I had some pretty well sized dreams. I'm very confident that I can become lucid. All of my hard work and everything has to start paying off. I want to also get to the point where this becomes 2nd nature. As long as I hack away at it then I can start looking into WILD.