Woo! I chained my first dreams!
They were both ND’s, but it is still progress! In the original dream, I was in some war, and I was with my squad in a jungle/museum type place, and I woke up as we were fighting a monster, then I stayed where I was, and I fell back asleep and continued my dream! Now I just need to chain into an LD…
congrats!
As for me, my mind’s been really awake \ excited lately… takes forever to get to sleep, and i sleep clean through the night.
But i’ve also been creating my own dreams, Like I wake up and decide to dream about something that’s been on my mind and just somehow sleep and end up in it. Then i wake up remembering everything.
Now… to put that into my advantage.
this sounds like an awesome technique and i will definitely try this in the morning when i wake up. Do you think if i use auto suggestion before i go to sleep like “i will wake up from a dream and not move at all.” Do you think that would be a good idea?
Can’t wait to try this!
I’m back again! Someone posted on this and it reminded me on my email 
I think I finally realized my one enemy–what is preventing me from attaining a lucid dream:
Doubt.
I am not skeptical…I believe in everything until it is disproved (except scientology… i’m sorry, no offense.) But the mere fact that there is a chance in this mundane reality where anything is possible is so mind boggling to me, deep down I’m probably doubting it lol. But I so want it to happen…
I am still able to go back into my dreams after waking, but I just need to make myself lucid somehow. I’ve noticed that usually i’m in third person when in a dream, or when I reminisce about a dream, which makes it harder for me to control myself, you know? I mean how could I control my dream if I’m not even in my dream body…?
I hope you guys are still out there!
I am going to try this technique in combination with U-WILD!!! When I am waking up I will not move and then flash all sort of images in my mind. I will try it tonight and see if it makes a difference!
I keep forgetting to lie still when I wake up… 
yeah lolpie, it IS kinda hard to stay still… I mean seriously, you get up and all of a sudden you’re supposed to remember to not open your eyes and stay still. It’s tough.
I realized that if I go to sleep early enough, I wake up an hour early…haha no surprise there.
I should try it sometime.
But still, is anyone else in third person in their dream?
i always forget to stay still!!! i always open my eyes by accident!! its gonna take some practice!
I’m gonna try this, I just hope my mom doesn’t come and try to wake me up. She’s done that before right when I wake up and am trying to recall dreams so I have to move or else she won’t leave me alone and then I don’t remember my dreams.
I am defenitely trying this! report back tomorrow! (hopefully)
Ya, this i think is a really good idea.
that is pretty awesome i actually did this exact thing last night before i even read this…it was that dream that made me sign up here for the forums.
i dont know how i became lucid in my dream but i remember that i was in my old house lookin for my ex-girl friend and i kept wakin up. frustrated i just layed still with my eyes closed and poof seconds later i find myself in the exact same place i was and just as lucid.
i think im gonna try this method tonite when i go to sleep cuz it seems like it would work better for me then most other methods ive tried.
oh and one other thing that dream i had was the first time i used a RC altho i already knew i was dreaming but i wanted to see if u really could keep breathing while holding your nose shut…next time im gonna try the finger through the hand that sounds pretty kool as well
SUCCESS! Tried it during a nap after class and had 4 LDs…
+rep
I was REM chaining this morning… I kept hitting the snooze button on my alarm and between each 9-minute interval, I had HI (without attempting WILD)… so I could probably try it.
I keep moving!!! is there any way to wake up and just not move??? 
This is something I experience many mornings, and I often try to enter a LD when I do but I don’t actually think much about it. If I combine it with MILD I could probably get it better.
It is very very hard to describe this state of mind, like the dream will begin to appear but you think your still awake etc…very strange but I am really glad I saw this topic. Going to start making it work.
I guess I got lucky before…it’s not working anymore.
When I wake up, I roll around and open my eyes later, I keep forgetting to not move
this technique is AMAZING. i have NEVER EVER gotten WILD to be even remotely sucessful. But after a few nights (maybe even the same day) of trying to remember to wake up with my eyes closed and not move, i did it. i was lying down and woke up. i almost immediately went into hypnogogic imagery for my first time ever. I stepped into the dream as i’ve never done before and entered my lucid dream. I woke up again after a while and it worked again. this morning it ended up ALMOST working again, i got into the dream but didnt have any sight, i dont really know how to explain it but i knew what was going on but i couldnt see it. unfortunately i noticed that these dreams are shorter and less vivid and i was wondering how to fix that. but i think that this technique might work so well because when we are waking up, we are actually in a false awakening and we expect the WILD to work so quickly and thats why it does. i mean we wont really be able to know but even if its not really false awakenings and we really do wake up, this would be EXTREMELY helpful with false awakenings because even if we didnt know we were dreaming, we would enter a lucid dream anyway. All in all, chaining is awesome.
I attempted this last night. I had a lucid dream just out of the blue, while I was enjoying that, i Was midflight flying, and i suddenly woke up, but i made a slight movement with my foot so that probably compromised the tech. But I’m going to try again tonight.