Interesting, I might give this a try. It reminds me of a few WILD's I've had where I imagined myself touching something with my hands and then suddenly I can actually feel it, and from there it's simple. When I did this it worked great. My problem was reaching the state of relaxation and calmness (or whatever) for it to become a vivid sensation... Maybe when I focus on my touch I get distracted and fall asleep quickly, and perhaps switching from one sense to another will help keep me focused... At the same time, when I MILD I repeat my mantra a few times and then just go to sleep as quickly as possible, which I understand you do with this technique as well, instead of repeating it until you fall asleep. So this might work for me.

Just to see if I got it right, I focus on what I see for a few seconds, then on what I hear, then on what I feel, over and over a few times. Then I just try to fall asleep.

If I get vivid images/sounds/touch, I should just focus on them and do a WILD (like I did a few times, as mentioned above)? And what If I get some sensations, but not that vividly, I just move on to the next step?

I think I've seen a SILD around, but I don't remember what it was for (Sound-ILD?), or even if it got used a lot. Doesn't make much of a difference to me...

and we've had lots of DreamViews users joining LD4all lately (for unfortunate reasons   ), so welcome!    and thanks for sharing this, I'm sure many more people will give it a try.  

Tried it again last night, and this time I did the whole thing. Problem is I think my sleep these past two days has been deeper than normal (which may even not be a problem as my main problem with LD's is waking up to quickly ).

Anyway, I did it on my back, as I can almost never fall asleep on my back and thought on my side I'd just fall right asleep. After I was done I rolled over and took some time to fall asleep. At a couple moments I wandered a bit and couldn't remember which step I was on . I started feeling vibrations very faintly but had a terrible itch which made them go away. I'll try on my side tonight and see what happens.

I actually got a few low lucid moments, but getting lucid isn't that hard for me, so it's hard to say how much SILD helped there. I'll try it for a few more days and see how it goes. I want to see if this tech can get me lucid more consistently and also see how it affects my LD's in terms of vividness and stability. I did realize better DR in terms of quantity of dreams. I guess I just don't remember that many details because I didn't write them down right away.  

thebotanyofsouls wrote:
By 6-8 breaths per sense I am fully paralyzed, observing steady tingling sensations, and there is 0 hypnagogic imagery behind my eyelids - just pretty colors.

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These pretty colors are probably hypnagogic imagery, but just the early stages. You usually start out with colors and patterns which then start turning into more defined shapes and then full scenes.  

And ok, I guess I should try to find a balance between falling asleep during the process and taking long to fall asleep after ir . I ended up trying it a bit this morning, but I mixed in some MILD too. Plus I did a WBTB and ate a banana, so all of those might have helped my lucidity (I didn't wake up right away, so that's cool!).