ld method

Well I’ve been through a long journey of experimentation with lucid dreaming techniques, I feel like this method is the best for me. Try it at your own will, I’m not claiming this method will be as successful for you as it is to me, but I hope it is, I encourage everyone to play with the variables to get it to work for them.
This method utilizes many concepts from the following techniques, WILD (anchor), DEILD (reawakening), FILD (time spaced reality checks), and WBTB (timed awakening), it tries to take the best features of each in my opinion, and make them work together all at once. Sounds complex? No, it’s pretty simple actually. I wouldn’t describe this is any unique technique; it’s merely me putting a bunch of pieces together in a good working order, you’ve probably seen a lot of similar techniques, mine goes into a lot more detail, I also don’t assume that sleep is as easy as just falling asleep then waking up, because it’s not that simple, you go through many bumps and slips of conscious, your brain loves to play tricks on you, this method will not just be useful because a dream has ended, you could find it working randomly after laying in bed for a while thinking your fully awake, you may have just zoned out for awhile and find it working. That’s why I’ve always been against the idea of just staying still, there is so much more to it than that, you really don’t have to worry too much about that here. You can easily dream your laying in bed, in fact I’m guessing people often do without realizing it.

1.	Well falling asleep think about what you want to do in your dream, don’t get too excited, try to fall asleep with an empty mind, don’t eat a lot before bed either
2.	Set an alarm to wake you up 6-7 hours from the moment you begin to try to fall asleep (you should have a good 2 hours of sleep after that too), go to the bathroom when you wake up, splash some cold water on your face too.
3.	Alright, it’s going to sound odd, but try to get yourself aroused for about 10 minutes well laying in bed, maybe imagine being with the love of your life, or something, I want you to do it because it excites powerful natural urges, your body is designed to slow every other bodily urge in anticipation for mating, it will be enough to get you away from being seduced by sleep, well keeping you physically relaxed, this also serves to motivate you into entering a world were all your dreams can come true. I truly believe the biggest reason most people fail at methods like WILD, is because they don’t feel like attempting anything at 3 am, or they do a half assed job because they trick themselves into thinking they want to do it that early, you’ll never be consistent if you can’t hold your motivation together.
4.	When you go back to sleep try to imagine a tactile sensation that is vivid to you, and not too difficult to imagine. I personally like to imagine doing summersaults, because it stimulates a sense of gravity and touch quite well, but also because it creates a spinning sensation which is useful for building a dream, you’ll recognize the spinning sensation if you feel it. You do not need to do this all the time, try to do it every time you think about it, but don’t hit yourself over the head if you haven’t done it for awhile, do it for a few minutes or until you get tired and take a few minutes to relax and do it again, do it every time you think about it preferably. Do not expect to succeed without first zoning out and having a few conscious slips, you won’t until you do, we are just getting you into the habit now. You may fall asleep, have a dream, or lose consciousness for a while, it doesn’t matter when you wake back up, it doesn’t matter if you had a dream or just zoned out for a bit, just begin doing the same thing. The tactile sensation acts as a sort of reality check, because eventually you’ll realize your vivid tactile sensation will feel especially vivid, and a dream will begin, usually this will happen after you slip out of conscious for a moment and come back in a special kind of state, you will also note that you cannot easily feel your head on your pillow in this state, but do not take this as a sign you’re in the right mind state, because your brain will mess with whatever expectations you have of it. In fact you may realize you’re doing the imagined tactile sense in a dream, and if you do find yourself practicing well out of bed, at least take a good look at your surroundings. Don’t worry about swallowing or staying still, you probably want to try not to roll over too much though, because you’ll go to sleep faster. Do not beat yourself up when you start to have your conscious slip away; it’s doing exactly what you want it to, I’ve been told that sleep is like a descent into madness, and I agree.
5.	As soon as you lose your sight in the lucid dream (everything will suddenly go black), begin the tactile sensation again, really concentrate on it this time, despite how difficult it might feel at first, you’d be surprised just how often you can make it back it despite the fact that you think your fully awake, and you should have another one, I can have anywhere from 3-5 lucid dreams if I put my mind on it.


The variables, these are things you should play with if you want to fit the method to yourself, and get it working in the best way possible.

1.	The time you wake up, if you can’t get 8-9 hours of sleep you might want to try waking up earlier, I don’t recommend anything earlier than 4 hours though, because that’s when deep sleep occurs and you won’t dream much.
2.	The time you stay up, if you find that you still have a sort of drowsy feeling and you cannot hold a thought for a few seconds without it running off, you probably need more time, if you find your awake for more than 30 minutes, shorten it.
3.	The tactile sensation, the most obvious variable, this is not just a way to check reality but also an anchor, if you know how WILD works, I highly recommend it be tactile in nature, but you can try visual if that doesn’t work, I’ve had it work with visual
4.	The amount of time you practice the anchor, as well as the amount of time you wait to do it again, if you find that it is keeping you awake to practice the anchor too long, do it for shorter intervals of time, or less often if you must.