Dreamghost wrote:
Good morning, hope you had very lucid dreams this night

I have 2 questions about the SSILD-technique; First one: I tried it one time in a combination with WBTB. But as I layed down I was very tired and the consequence were random thoughts. Not the normal ones, my brain felt like a street in NY on Rush hour. The Problem was that I wasn07t able to concentrate on the cycles longer for a few seconds. So I felt in a Normal Sleep. Has anyone hints for that situation? Or is my theory right, that I should07ve waked up myself a bit more before.

Second: This morning I was waked very early and felt tired (8.00 AM on Saturday  ) so I thought why not SSILD. I waked me up a bit, layd down and did 5 very quick cycles. In the slow cycles I thought "Hm on HILD you had this change from tired to wake in a moment and then you was in a dream, maybe it07s the same with SSILD" (The thought was a bit shorter in Real). In the 3rd slow cycle I felt, that my arms had something like a warm aura around and so I thought "Cool LD07s near ".  Then a bit later I had this sudden change from tired to awake. (it needed 2 seconds for that, on HILD it was under 1 sec.) I opened my eyes and stopped the cycles because I thought I was dreaming but every RC showed that its reality. Did my own expectations changed my feeling into awake? But it were just one thought. Or did I just stopped to early with the cycles?

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I was experimenting with SSILD in the past and it's a very interesting technique. In my believe your first assumption is correct. If you feel you are to sleepy then you most probably are and you should wake your self up just a little bit more.

Once you start to experience HH's like aurora around your hands each and every thought might become reality. What I wanna say is that if you thought let's say about dragons in HH state you might experience something similar or something that is connected to dragons - caves, fire, birds or even the dragon itself. So if thought of wakefulness crossed your mind in this state then it's no wonder that you experienced it. As you can see mind is a very powerful over body. Try and use that in your advantage.

I always preferred observing thoughts in this state rather then interacting with them. It might seem difficult not to think about something directly but mindfulness meditation might teach you how to do it. The secret is to acknowledge the thought and let it go away just like observing it and not giving it to much attention because then thought will become reality which you will experience at the end... The advantage that I was talking about is exactly that. If you wanna focus on thought and expecting it to became reality incubate the thought of becoming lucid. You were lucid before and you know the feeling, in this transitional state think about that feeling.

Well all this might or might not work for you, one thing is for sure, you need to experiment with it, see if it works or not but give it a try...

Good luck!  
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