主题:First PostCool! There is a subreddit dedicated to SSILD. A few weeks ago I tried SSILD for 1 week. In like the 5 nights I tried it, I had one lucid dream. I don't do this technique during the week because I don't like alarm techniques. I will occasionally do SSILD when I wake up in the middle of the night
That's actually the spirit of it. I don't use alarm either. SSILD uses a relaxed approach, not just in terms of the technique itself, but toward lucid dreaming in general. Make it a habit and do it causally without disturbing your normal sleep patterns, and lucid dreams will sooner or later occur. And they WILL come in abundance! On the Chinese forum I've seen many people achieving lucidity on a daily basis by making this technique a part of their lives!
Hi CosmicI,
I'm sure you get asked this a k'zillion times, so here's a k'zillion and one:
I'm a heavy sleeper and I fall asleep fast, even when I get up for awhile a la WBTB. I rarely make it through the short cycles before drifting off, and I've never made it through a long cycle.
Any suggestions?
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
LOL,. Not doing at least some portion of the slow cycles can indeed be problematic. I recommend the following:
Lie on the bed with a different posture. For example, if you usually sleep on the side, try lie flat on your back while doing the cycles. Better yet, position your hands differently. For example, cross them and place them under your chest as if performing some kind of ritual. Once you are through the "ritual" you can turn to the side and sleep normally.
Normally I wouldn't recommend this, but given your particular problem I say it's possible to skip the short cycles. They are used to help people relax and warm up to the long ones without causing too much tension. But in your particular case you might want do with them. In fact that's what the first version of SSILD was, and it was I fact more "powerful" than the current version (with the short cycles added to it).
Without the short cycles, and assume you have done the long cycles sufficiently, sometimes you will SNAP awake from your sleep. It's a very strange sensation: your mind is super clear, and you feel wide awake. At the same time you cannot feel your physical body and you know right away you are in a FA/OBE or whatever you call it. The current version of SSILD no longer produces this kind of effect because the short cycles somewhat "dilute" it. Anyway, if falling back to sleep isn't a problem it might worth trying :)
Hope this helps!
Hey, cool to see there's a subreddit for this now, I actually searched it up a few days ago, only to see their wasn't any posts. SSILD is the main method I'm using right now. After a while of practicing dream recall I moved on to trying to induce LD using this method. About a week in so far, first few nights I fell asleep too quickly, so I'm still trying to adjust the amount of time I'm awake in order to not fall asleep too quickly; or not stay awake too long. No LD yet but I am remembering many more, and an occasional extremely vivid dream. Looking forward to seeing more on here!
Thanks so much! I will try that tonight.
I say you're well on track because you have been observing changes in dream qualities. Usually it means you are getting closer: try wake up a little more or apply a little bit more focus during the long cycles might just do the trick. Also make sure you allow sufficient amount of sleep first. Without them you could end up forgetting those LDs even when they do occur.