Quote Originally Posted by DragonMaster21 View Post
Just recently I had a DEILD/DILD. I actually tried something that I had read in Xanous' dream journal.

I had just become lucid in a dream, underwater, and everything was black. I felt like I was waking up. Instead of doing what I had done before (visualizing the dream scene I was just in), I did something else. In one of Xanous' DJ entries, I saw that when he did a DEILD, he imagined that he was riding a bike, with the movements and everything, so I did that. I remembered a part of my scene (a few eagles flying around) and imagined I was one of those, and "moved" my arms like I had a pair of wings. After a bit, it suddenly felt real. I feel that if I had done some more visualizing, I would have entered a dream.

Just a suggestion that you may want to try out if you want.
Sounds cool! I'll give it a try whenever I become lucid ^^

Quote Originally Posted by sisyphus View Post
Good luck! I'll follow along though I might not post every day. DEILD is my main technique nowadays, mostly because it's the most convenient way to fit lucid dreaming into my schedule.

Like faceonmars, I really think of DEILD as dream re-entry. The previous dream is the most salient image in my head so it feels natural to just fall back into it.
Thank you! ^^ Alright, that's fine.
I agree.

Day 1/Attempt 1

Went to sleep: 11 p.m.
Awakenings (that I remember): 6:15 a.m.
Time woken: 7 a.m.

So I put a lot of energy into my mantras last night before I fell asleep. Although, I don't remember waking up at all, except for after a pretty long dream (at 6:15), on which I wasn't aware enough to lie still. Before I knew it I had rolled over and opened my eyes.

What confuses me though, is while using the same mantra a while ago, I was able to wake up after every 30 minutes. I'm serious. After the first 5 hours of sleep, I kept waking up after 30 minute increments. This has only happened to me once, though, and was a couple weeks ago. Maybe I'm not focusing enough on my mantra and what it really means. If any of y'all want to know what it is, my mantra is: "I wake up after my dreams and lie still."

I guess I could rephrase it to something different since we do actually wake up after our dreams, we just aren't aware of it.