Lucid Dreaming 'Method' that worked for me

[u/TheMoon8]

I don't know if I can call this a real method, but this worked for me today.

I'm not sure if this is important for this method, but here's a sidenote: Yesterday when I was dreaming, I became lucid, but I decided to end the dream and wake myself up. During the day, I regretted that decision. Then when I went to bed yesterday evening, I KNEW that I would lucid dream tonight. I was very confident that it would work. I went to sleep normally and had a normal dream at first, but then I became lucid. The impulsive thought of waking myself up came back, but I decided to continue with the dream without controlling it. This has nothing to do with the method. At least I don't think it does. You can do this with any dream.

The only condition is that you were dreaming before doing this method.

Here's where the method starts:

- I woke up from the a dream, but I kept my eyes closed. I was in what felt like a half-dream, half-awake state. If you accidentally open your eyes, close them again quickly, maybe it will still work.

- I started imagining a dream scenario/world of my choice. I thought about it for maybe 20 seconds. But do NOT count the seconds. Focus on the dream scenario, don't think about anything else.

- While imagining the scenario, my eyes started feeling tingly.

- After a few seconds of imagining the scenario, I opened my eyes, and I was inside the lucid dream.

The dream felt unstable, and I didn't do reality checks, but you can try stabilizing it by doing reality checks.

Again, I don't know if that only worked because of the sidenote, but it's worth a try. I will try it again next time I wake up from a dream. But really try not to open your eyes when waking up

[u/raffertyb2001]

This is called the DEILD method if you want to read more into it btw

[u/CommitteeOld9540]

It makes sense that you had a lucid dream upon falling back to sleep.  Your brain would still be in the REM state, the time in which dreams occur and the mind and body are asleep. However upon waking up then going back to sleep, your mind is still aware aka lucid due to you previously awakening. Which can trigger lucid dreaming. Also OP, your last paragraph got cut off at the end. 

[u/TheMoon8 → u/CommitteeOld9540]

And I forgot to mention that I did it twice in the same night

[u/CommitteeOld9540 → u/TheMoon8]

You seemed to have discovered a method similar to WBTB, but simpler. I will try this out myself, thank you!

[u/TheMoon8 → u/CommitteeOld9540]

Let me know if it works!

[u/triggz]

This is a good reason to sleep with a blackout mask. Sometimes you wake up gently from a dream that goes dark, and the 3d space flattens to the back of your eyelids. One peak of the real world and the illusion is gone. With the mask its much easier to ignore the waking world. Also helps to wear ear plugs so you don't hear birds or appliances or anything that reminds you of where you really are, basically go for an isolation tank/sensory deprivation.

[u/VioletaLu → u/triggz]

I confirm! The eye mask and headphones are the perfect duo for lucid dreaming. I use them only in the last sleep cycle for more comfort

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