Is it more vivid vs FILD? (If you've tried that?)

I'm new to lucid dreaming but I had my first super short lucid dream using FILD last night and I'm wondering if it's worth doing this technique since FILD is so easy.  

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SSILD is OK.  It is one way of many to focus your awareness outside of your head and to quiet the inner voice/chatter while you fall asleep.  There are a bunch of different kinds of visualizations if you investigate, for example, dream yoga (which has done pratices like SSILD for millenia).   They all give you a place to direct your awareness while gradually falling asleep.

I find any sort of alternation of center of attention is useful.   Feel free to play with the cycles:

* vision: imagine projecting yourself forwards into your field of view
* hearing (I find this the most relaxing of the 3): totally relax the eyes, keep a bit of unfocused awareness on vision

* body: totally relax body and mind, release all stress from body

Invent new places to put your attention.    I usually do very short cycles and frequently change the focus.   Sometimes I just do vision and hearing, so I can more easily "forget my body", which the body cycle sometimes interferes with.

And through it all: relax, relax, relax, let go.    "Looking hard" with vision like you're trying to shoot lasers out of your eyes will just keep you awake.  

To add to this, a dream journal is very important, that alone gives me at least a dream a week, where before I didn't remember anything for months/years. I may try this technique.  

i find it very difficult not to look hard  

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I tried the WBTB and FILD methods neither worked. I'll look into this and hopefully it works. Thanks for sharing ;)  

LOL. I legit laughed so hard when you said "Shut up you idiot"  

I've never had an LD before, but after the description I realized that I did something similar with hypnosis, and once had a very very close experience, and after reading the whole post, it could have been an FA, since everything was buzzy and such. Kinda cool.  

Everything is a virus or malicious to them  

They're all methods of achieving the same goal, so they shouldn't have an effect on the lucidity of the dream. Increasing vividness is more the job of stabilisation techniques (rubbing hands together, among others).  

I am an idiot because I warned you? Why would I lie about it? A pop-up said 26% of my phone is virus, I should download an app which will clean my phone. Which is obviously a scam. Virus total cannot find it because it's not a virus. I don't understand Reddit. You call me idiot because I want you to be safe? What's the logic in that? Why am I idiot? Please explain it to me.  

How awake do you have to be to this to work after waking up?
I tried for a week and haven't had any success sadly :/  

Actually, it's not DreamViews doing that. Some apps are known to do that. (A MP3 downloader or something popped up fake virus warnings)  

  
If you wanna be REALL safe, root your phone like a pro, get AdAway, and install Avast + MalwareBytes  

Tibetan Dream Yoga's main focus has always been what you do within the dreams, never so much in terms of induction techniques and there isn't a great number of variations. I wonder exactly where in Dream Yoga you read about similar techniques and how you came to the conclusion that this is just a "repackage." I'd very much like to see a quote for that. Besides, lucid dreaming has been practiced for thousands of years in many forms. In a way you can find similarities between all modern day techniques and traditional methods.

SSILD was developed with the sole purpose to help people struggling with lucid dreaming, and no-one is profiting from it. I posted the method into public domain and that's it. I haven't even been online that much ever since I did it. Whether you like it or not is your own business, that has always been the attitude from me. I didn't "want you to think it's a magical Chinese method." The popularity of the method pretty much came by itself. I wasn't pushing it.  

Thank you for promoting it :) I just wanted to clarify it with you because I had previously been accused by some malicious person who claimed that I wanted  to profit from the technique, which of course was not true. We're good. Thanks again!  

Nowadays I focus more on investigating many forms of altered/higher state of consciousness. Lucid dreams serve as a good launching platform for that study.

With SSILD, LD induction has become much easier, even for myself. Prior to SSILD I was able to induce LDs at will, primarily via WILD. However, the effort required to do that was rather high, and there were times I simply didn't feel like doing it. SSILD has changed that. It has become a habit for me to perform a few cycles after a few hours of sleep. Then upon subsequent awakening (for me it's almost always real awakening), I simply shift my focus into the dream state and within seconds I'm in an LD. This process, shall I say, is about as effortless as it goes, for me personally anyway. As the result the number of lucid dreams I receive remains very high without incurring a toll on me physically or mentally.

Yes I am Chinese-American and live in New York nowadays. :)

Cheers  

>Step-by-step

>1. The best time to practice is after 4 or 5 hours of sleep. You could also combine the practice with WBTB for maximum effect but it is not required.

How else would you practice this without combining it with WBTB? Don't most people find it difficult to "naturally" wake up 4-5 hours after falling asleep?