Ok you guys, i'm not promising that this is a "new" technique, or that it is the end all technique, or even that it will ever work for you.

So don't get prissy and tell my I wasted a whole night that you could have been lucid trying this stupid technique of mine =P.

Anyways here is my poor way of describing my technique...unlike most other techniques that have you "clear your mind" or whatever, this one has you focus on a set story line.

This is how it works. You must come up with a story line before you go to bed. The point of this story is for you to think about every time you go to bed. You continuously dwell on this story, from start to finish, preferable it is a long story, maybe watch Titanic and steal that plot line. The point of this story is to focus your mind on what your thinking. If you see any thoughts arise that you didn't think yourself, which I know sounds like a perplexing proposition, but none the less I know you understand what I mean, then you know your either already about to be dreaming, or you are dreaming. But you have to be on the look out.

Some things I'd like to note. After a while a fixed storyline will become pointless, you should be able to spot your thoughts change fairly easily at that point, and really this method will help you DILD more often as well, it is my theory that we are always a inch away from knowing we're asleep, it is just a matter of realising that your thinking something that you wouldn't normally be thinking. Because of this technique, for me I often simply realize during some random moment, hey wait, i'm actually in bed sleeping...then things go off from there? Also I said Titanic because that's one of my favorite movies...right up there with legally blonde. I actually developed this method skipping the fixed storyline method, but oh well.

Please let me know if any of you try this out, or if this has been put up in the air before.