Good luck. I'd be interested if it works for you. I never used the technique but it seemed odd.  

Cool
Everyone can join. More participations - better results.  

I will give it a go as well, been too dormant from lucids for too long haha ill be sure to post results  

Nice. That's a good start, DAY 1:
I had similar results. As I laid there I began watching the different colors behind my eye lids and then started hearing a sort of buzzing sound and felt slight vibrations. As I continued to repeat the steps I began doing them all at once and started to get that spinning/falling feeling mromgwtf experienced(I have experienced this feeling many times a lot of times right after I lay down.) I kept repeating the steps until I was basically doing them subconsciously until I fell asleep. It did not induce a lucid dream however, I had a fairly vivid dream considering I haven't been able to have much success with recall lately(on behalf of my laziness lol). But I feel it's a good start and by the end of the month I will induce more than one lucid from this method. Good luck to the rest, ill be posting more results tomorrow  

Day 1
I also tried SSILD while going to bed, and let me say, if nothing else, this technique is GREAT to make yourself fall asleep quickly.

While i had no success at bedtime, i woke up about 5 hours into sleep. I went to the bathroom, drank some water and returned to the sheets.

After what felt like 5-6 reps, i think i dosed off, suddenly finding myself wide awake again... Only this time, i could not fall asleep (dream).

I felt like i was laying there for 40 min and then, I was suddenly jolted awake 2 hours later (real time).

I feel bad for getting tricked like that. :'(    
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Lucids: 0 FAs: 1  

I also hope this technique will bring forth some DILD's for me, since i have only ever had lucids during a nap, and i would really like to 1: have lucids more frequently and 2: experience what it is like (if it is any different) having a lucid during normal sleep.  

Originally Posted by Buhl:
Day 1
I also tried SSILD while going to bed, and let me say, if nothing else, this technique is GREAT to make yourself fall asleep quickly.

While i had no success at bedtime, i woke up about 5 hours into sleep. I went to the bathroom, drank some water and returned to the sheets.

After what felt like 5-6 reps, i think i dosed off, suddenly finding myself wide awake again... Only this time, i could not fall asleep (dream).

I felt like i was laying there for 40 min and then, I was suddenly jolted awake 2 hours later (real time).

I feel bad for getting tricked like that. :'(    So you had a FA?

I had it too

If we practice SSILD, we have to know how to detect FAs, because there will be TONS of them.  

Day 2
Not much to say. Few cool things happened though. First was that when I was doing the SSILD, it felt like I was doing it for hour. The 4 series took SO LONG to complete I don't even. I think I felt asleep after second repetition, and then woke up a bit. I don't clearly remember any FAs, but again, I had trouble falling asleep, which could be FA. I think I did the RC and it failed, when I couldn't fall asleep. I think I woke up then. I remember also that I woke up and I heard high pitched noise. It synthesised it so you can hear what I'm talking about. It wasn't loud, it was calm, and soft to my ears. I started concentrating on that noise, but as I concentrated on it, it went away.

Here's the high pitch thing: Zippyshare.com - hi pitch.mp3

Lucids: 0 FAs: 1

WTF? Why is my post here? Shouldn't it be at the bottom? O.o  

Day 1

I'm also going to be trying this over the next 30 days. (very neat that there are so many of us doing it at once)

I tried it this morning, after getting up for about an hour after 5 hours of sleep.

I didn't have a lucid dream, but I was astounded by how quickly and how deeply it brought about relaxation. In a matter of minutes my body felt ready for sleep. This usually takes about half an hour, but it happened today in less than 10 minutes.

I continued to use it for the next three hours, on and off with just falling asleep, and letting my mind wander. I fell asleep and then woke up again a few times. During this 3 hour period, multiple times I felt very sudden sensations in my hands and feet, like that of when you're entering a lucid dream using WILD. They came too unexpectedly for me to not become wide awake again, but I remember it felt like my hand had suddenly had a gust of wind lift it up, for a split second, and then the sensation disappeared when I shifted my focus to it.

I also found it extremely difficult, when performing this technique, to keep my mind from wandering. I would literally be lying there, starting the "stare at the darkness behind your eyelids" step, and within 10 seconds my mind will have wandered to some ridiculous, arbitrary concept, and then I'd snap back to going on to the next step, "listen to the noises in your ears", and then start it, thinking how crazily fast I lost my train of thought, and within 10 seconds I would snap back with another ridiculous thought or phrase in my mind. It was so insane, that I started counting how many times this happened in a row, and it was over 10 times. I was blown away by how little I controlled my focus. (note that I probably could have maintained my awareness by repeating a mantra, but I didn't want to, because that would most likely disrupt the relaxation effects)

Anyway, it's a very good way to relax, and I'll continue to try it, to see how it works for lucid dreaming.

Attempts: 1, Lucids: 0, FAs: 0
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Oh also, I had what might have been a false awakening, I'm not really sure anymore. I remembering thinking, "other people have said they have false awakenings with this, so I better make sure". (I had been lying in bed for quite a while) So I did a reality check, it turned up negative, so just to see what time it was I looked down at the clock, and it read, "1:15".

Skip ahead a long while. I sit up and do a reality check, in the same way, and look down to see what time it is. It says, "1:27", and immediately I'm suspicious because it felt much, much longer than 12 minutes, it felt more like 45 minutes, having fallen asleep and such in between. I look away, and then back, and then away and then back, and then away and then back, and it remains the same, so I know I'm not dreaming. But then it really makes me wonder if the earlier check had been a false awakening. I don't think it was, since my reality check was negative, but I'm not that sure anymore, because I have had false RC results before. So anyway, just putting that out there: be very attentive when you do your reality checks. If that was indeed a false awakening, you may be surprised at how realistic it is.

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Oh, also something I noticed upon one awakening was a very loud and distinct sound of a helicopter right above our house, at some point. This sort of thing has happened before, and I'm not sure how it happens, because it bleeds over like 5 seconds into real life! (I do reality checks, that show I'm awake, while the helicopter sound is fading, but is still being heard, distinctly. I'd say it is a false awakening, except I know it's not, at least not always, because I literally get up after this and get on with the day)  

Day 2
I woke up after 6 hours of sleep and i simply couldn't do these repetitions.
It only took a couple of seconds before i would lose focus and drift into random nonsense thoughts which suddenly led me to regain counsciousness and start over. After trying for what seemed like an hour i drifted off to sleep.

I do have a faint memory of waking up and reading in my journal which i think could be a FA, but for the sake of this test, i will not include FAs without a clear memory of it happening.

Lucids: 0 FAs: 1  

Cool results so far seems like we're all making good progress.
DAY 2:
After getting out of work I was really tired so it wasn't too hard fall asleep. I laid down and manage to get maybe 2 or 3 repetitions before I drifted off to sleep, didn't have a chance for WBTB part this time, but I did have 2 very long vivid dreams. Which is definitely a good sign(basically redirecting my dream recall very fast.) I will try again tonight with a WBTB thrown in.  

Day 2

Tried again, no lucids. I should note, though, that I remember far more of my dreams last night than I usually do. I remember like 5 different segments, when I usually only remember 1 or 2. This could just be because I'm trying a new technique, and so am more attentive, but it also could be because of the technique itself. This will be easier to see as we continue testing it.

Attempts: 2, Lucids: 0, FAs: 0  

Originally Posted by ryman:
I do it at the start of my sleep to keep me thinking about it before i go to sleep, also it helps me fall asleep faster.

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Ah, I know what you mean.

I want to update something in my day 2, I asked CosmicIron and he explained me that I was really close!

When I was doing the cycles, I fell asleep during second cycle, and continued doing them in FA! That's why it felt so long. Then, the high pitched noise I was hearing, was the phase entrance or something like that. Because I misread cosmiciron's post, I started to concentrate on it and it faded away, I should just passively listen to it, wait as it increases it's volume, and then do a subtle RC.  

Day 3

Was going to try this morning, but got distracted trying to do another method. (the Tinnitus one)

Will try again tonight.

Attempts: 2, Lucids: 0, FAs: 0  

I think I may join in . I had a LD the other night after doing SSILD, and I believe that this is an effective method. Ill start tonight!  

Very neat. I'm definitely going to keep trying.  

Congrats Buhl, I had the same problem with excitement during my closest WILD, I don't know if I can ignore this SSILD haha  

Day 4

I got very close this morning! I woke up for about an hour, went back to bed, did 4 or 5 repetitions. Now relaxed, I lay there, but was getting bored. So I started doing more repetitions, (I know I wasn't really supposed to, but I was getting impatient), and I started feeling very strange, like when starting to have hypnogogic imagery. After being in this state for a while, trying to keep my excitement down and fall asleep, my attention snapped back when I heard a distinct and sudden noise of a piano key being pressed, like when I'm playing with my headphones on. I knew without a doubt that this was in my mind, since I didn't have headphones on, this has happened other times right before a dream, and I was expecting it more or less, so I jerked myself up immediately and did reality checks. But apparently I hadn't fallen asleep yet.

I think I would have entered a lucid dream if I had waited longer before getting out of bed, because I felt very close, and I only hear noises like that when I'm getting close to one. (which is why I got up, but apparently a bit too soon)

Attempts: 3, Lucids: 0, FAs: 0, HIs: 1  

Day 4: no success had no time for WBTB, remembered one drem fragment  

Day 4
Absolutely nothing.
Lucids: 1 FAs: 2

Day 3 wasn't only SSILD. If I didn't do the RCs before falling asleep, I think I wouldn't have a lucid. I was just repeating doing those RCs and I did it in a FA. I think a mantra could help here doing the RC while in FA.  

Day 5
Stress at work = no time for dreaming

Lucids: 1 FAs:1  

I'm glad that you it worked for you and it gave you a few FAs!

I'm doing this technqiue for the FAs mainly, so it is good to hear it works for at least one person hahaha  

Day 5: woke up about 4 hours after going to sleep, stayed in bed awake for a few min, then began doing the cycles, got one or two in before I drifted off, had a very deep vivid dream, not very long, but vivid. No lucids yet though.  

How are you losing sleep? This doesn't require you to lose sleep.  

DAY 6:
no success, woke up around 3am got out of bed used the bathroom, and got a drink of water. I laid back down and could not do the steps without getting distracted several times so I just went to sleep.