Senses Initiated Lucid Dream (SSILD) Part II

Cosmic, are reality checks necessary with this method?

It’s not mandatory, but why not? Please try to read the entire thread as there are a lot of valuable information buried inside.

Last night I set my alarm for 4am. I stayed up for twenty minutes. I went to bed and did the SSILD cycles. I lost my place a couple of times. At the end I was sort of half asleep, half awake. I drifted off to sleep. I woke about three times, did an RC each time and each time I was awake. I had zero dream recall. What now?

After a few nights of nothing with this method I extended the WBTB time, and something strange happened. I had two dreams and sort of analysed them while I was still asleep, I thought, these seem weird, then I woke up a bit into sleep paralysis before going back into the dream but when I tried to speak there was only a static sound. The next few dreams were a series of false awakenings where I was at home (I’m at university now) and I noticed strange things, but in each one I tried to change the scenery, so it was like a dream inside a dream, before I came back to my bedroom again. I even told a dream character I was dreaming. So was this low level lucidity?

Getting close actually. Try wake up one hour later, reduce wake up time by 5-10 minutes, and see how it goes.

This is quite common with SSILD and no need to worry. It indeed is a low level lucidity.

I woke at 5am and did the cycles. I felt quite awake during the cycles - mind didn’t really wander like it has done when I tried SSILD at 4am - and after I was too awake to get back to sleep. Waking at 5am is quite unusual for me so I’ll keep trying for 5am (unless you advise otherwise).

Last night I think I was on the verge of an OBE again: I felt this energy and ringing in my head, I tried to go with it but nothing happened. Am I doing anything wrong?

Last night I had a burst of awareness but the dream collapsed almost instantly, and I ended up in a fuzzy state between sleep and being awake, only aware of my paralysed body. Am I getting closer?

Just something I wanted to share with you all:

Last week a very good friend of mine died, and I really couldn’t accept it. There was just so much I wanted to say to her. So I then I thought of lucid dreaming, and I wanted a quick result. So I thought, let’s try this easy sounding technique, SSILD.

And it worked better than I could have imagined. Woke up at 5, did the cycle 5 times and fell asleep straight into an LD. I called my friend and there she was. We had a good conversation and said goodbye. She really comforted me, told me I was the one who was sad, and that she never had any pain. Now I can finally move on. I promised not to go to her again.

I really want to thank the person who started this thread. I recommend it to all of you.

And, this is a great example of how LD’ing can help you with dealing with problems.

Really sorry for your loss. Congratulations with your success though!

Wow… Thank you for sharing this wonderful experience with us. We spent a great deal of effort to develop this technique, and your post single-handedly made all that feel worthwhile!

That’s a nice story. Thats pretty awesome, Wings.

Would a good way to awake the brain is use the bathroom and stare into the mirror for 30 seconds?

It’s hard to say, you need to try it and see. Maybe you’ll need to stay longer awake if this is not working…

Okay will try

Success! I had my first lucid dream. Only problem I experienced was going to sleep after getting up for the first time. I think it was caused by look outside my window which has a view of a bright lamp post.

EDIT: It was a DILD

Congratulation! :happy:

I wish I had’ve found this technique earlier. Very reliable, hassle free, always throws me into a dream in an interesting way.
I’ve only tried it for the past two days, but it’s worked both times. First time I just kind of appeared at the start of a dream, lucid, and thought “huh that’s weird”
Second time (last night) I did some weird OBE thing where I floated out of my body then was stretched and distorted. That was fun.

Just one problem. Though it’s not really a problem because I can still use this technique with it, but… when I get to the stage of doing the steps, concentrating on the things, I keep getting distracted. I always get a song stuck in my head and/or get really twitchy and have to move a bit. Any good ways to clear my head completely?

It’s 5 o clock in Hong Kong now and I am trying WBTB at this moment (not joking), what can I do?