at the request of a fellow LDer, and having already done it in one pm i got already, i guess ill explain my method here.
so here’s what i do:
basically, i can cause myself to have daydreams when im really tired. i just sit back and relax and let myself drift off, while still staying awake, i guess it’s kinda like WBTB, i duno. anyway, so i just kinda drift off, and i think i actually do get to sleep, but because i have no sleep paralysis, i always manage to wake myself up. I end up running or something or jumping or doing a sudden activity, and in real life it causes my body to repeat the action, and i wake up in my chair at work.
so anyway, i do this at night too. after messing around for a few days, i figured out what my REM shedule was and timed when i go to bed (if i want to LD i follow a schedule that gets me to sleep at that time) and i have two alarms, one to wake me for getting ready to “night-dream” as i call it, and the other to actually wake me up when i have to. any time i wake up inbetween then i just close my eyes and fall directly back to sleep. after i get woken up the first time, i get up, have a cigarette, and have something to drink, enough to wake me up so i can have “night-dreams” but not enough to wake me as i can’t get back to sleep.
in order to induce my actual lucid dreams, i kind of have like an incubated dream like pedro does. i can always pick what scenario i want to have when i go into my daydreams, so i figured i could do it at night as well. so I pick my scenario, a big room with some furniture, a nice comfy bed, nice fireplace, and a door at the other end.i normally envision myself lying on the bed and just looking at the ceiling. i’ll get up and imagine myself walking around and suddenly it’s like the two worlds blur. instead of me imagining im walking around, i really am walking around. upon looking around in my room, i see the big rc sign above the far door. says “You are Dreaming” not questioning. Asking. I find that I am more likely to do a RC if I am told that I am dreaming as opposed to being asked if I might be dreaming.
It’s kind of like a mix of everything I guess, I just kinda… wake up just enough, for about 10 minutes, but I’m still reeeeaaallly tired, so I have my “night-dream” type thing and I just imagine that scenario. Soon everything just kind of meshes together and instead of imagining it, i’m in it. I dunno, sorry for the obscure description, I tried. Like Pedro said, his method was for him, this is for me. Go ahead and try it, but I didn’t explain it to well, I just said what I could.