主题:Ssild, Had My 3Rd Lucid Dream!I just had my 3rd Lucid Dream!
I woke up pretty early, I was feeling really tired and wasn't looking towards doing the cycles but I did anyway. Forced myself to do the cycles, dragged through them. It took me about 10 minutes or so to complete the whole cycles since I like to take my time doing them.
After that, I kept rolling around in bed and I was like "Aw shit, so hard to sleep now." My mind was pretty much wide awake due to the cycles. I laid still and got bored, my mind just blanked - I was legitimately bored. All the sudden, I had the sudden urge to open my mouth and breath deeply in and out. It just felt like an intuition.
Cue a few more shallow breaths and being relaxed, a sudden wave of shocks went over me. Wow, so it felt like my chest was being pressed!
Noises rung all around me and it stopped. Suddenly, I just saw my bed. It appeared in my vision so I got up to walk and everything was so life-like that I had to do a double take. I clapped my hands but I didn't do a RC because I knew it was a dream. My mom was in the living room in real life (I know cause I saw when I was awake) but in the dream she was in the living room and then disappeared. I saw her disappear in my dream when I walked out to the kitchen. It was just like she was there and the next second she wasn't. That's how I knew this was a dream.
Anyways, I was fully awake and the house was half-dark. All lights were off. I went to bathroom to turn on the switch but the fucking lights wouldn't go on. I even tried to imagine it really quick but it still wouldn't go on and even verbally commanded the lights but nothing happened. I think I did it too fast and that's why it didn't work. Maybe you need to do everything slowly?
Anyways, I accidentally opened my eyes for some reason and saw real life and then, I was really awake.
nice i'll try one tonight.
Thanks for sharing that. I am encouraged. I'm going to learn this method ...
Dude I know exactly what you're talking about. The best way to describe it is being in the other dimension from Insidious. Next time, just chill in bed a little longer and it should be all good.
I think I'm some rare oddity. Every time I have tried SSILD it has made me so wide awake that I end up fully awake at 4am unable to sleep at all.
Next time expect a different scene to be on the other side of a door then open it and walk through.
Yup, you cant wait around or doubt yourself just open the door and expect / start acting like its there.
Just go up turn light on and it can work, its when you think too hard or doubt yourself. Same thing as running through walls etc you cant have that doubt it wont work.
That brings up a point for me..
all my lucid dreams are always dull lighting / half dark. And mostly ALWAYS night time outside.
How many times have you tried it and at what hour?
Let me know what happened!
I think it's because it's the closest to the last thing your eyes saw before you slept or it's an expectation that it's dark, because you know...sleep.
I have been trying to lucid dream for 5 months now. I attempt 3x a week by doing wake back to bed. I allow myself to sleep for 4-5 hours. Then get up for about 20 minutes to journal my dreams. Then I do SSILD.
Generally this results in me being wide awake at like 3am after have been doing cycles for 45minutes and just get bored so I get up and start doing g chores or read.
I have also tried doing it first thing at night before bed and while it has never given me a lucid dream I did get 1 false awakening.
I have since switched to trying WILD for about 2 months now but I have had no success with that either. Every time I try to WILD my body goes into sleep paralysis and I lay there awake for over an hour with no images or hypnagogia.
I suggest you don't get out of bed and instead lay in bed and do the cycles right away for about 10 minutes instead. 45 minutes seems a lot, YMMV.
Weird, says all 5 of my temperary alarms (5 seconds long) went off, yet I don't remember waking up at all. Try again tonight.
I don't know about you. But I always use the snooze feature, I stopped using the timed-auto-snooze alarms because they don't wake me up most of the time since I seem to be a heavy sleeper.
Now I use snooze-alarms and they wake me up a really good 92% of the time.
Also, I just had a semi-LD by the SSILD method again ;D
With SSILD you do not to wake up too much, unlike traditional WILD methods. Try waking up yourself only slightly -- a quick bathroom visit usually is sufficient.