Hey everyone ,

you can probably guess it from the title, but here I am going to write down my experiences with DEILD.
After deciding at the beginning of the year that WILD doesn't seem like the right technique for me, I switched to DEILD, having had a few lucid dreams with it already. It looked like a pretty promising way of LDing to me (it still does) and I got a few LDs rather quickly.
I decided to open up this thread for a few reasons: firstly, I hope to hear of some of your approaches. Many tips and tricks aren't written down in any tutorials and so I would love to learn something new. Secondly, it (hopefully) keeps me motivated to continue practicing . And it might help someone else, who is trying DEILD.

At the moment I am trying to DEILD every day. For waking up at night, I use autosuggestion, as alarm clocks never quite work for me. I try to transition into the dream by vividly imagining the dream I had before waking up or thinking of another scene. Instead of focusing on the visuals, I mostly use the feeling of touching something, because that seems to work a lot better. I also think that some of Michael Radugas separation techniques, like phantom wiggling (trying to move a part of the body without using your muscles) are quite interesting and I had some success with them.

Now, I encountered some problems, mainly getting aware while waking up. Oftentimes I wake up and only get "conscious" after some time. The few times, at which I get aware while leaving the dream are often pretty easy DEILDs. Thats why I try to get those more often, but at the moment I don't know what I can do to increase the rate of those awakenings. This, next to not waking up at all throughout the night, because I need to get up early, are my biggest problems right now.

I am hoping to update this thread weekly and I am looking forward to any tips or tricks you got

Kasy