Finger Induced Lucid Dream

The FILD (Finger Induced Lucid Dream, or Hargarts' Induction for Lucid Dreaming) induction method is a more advanced Lucid Dreaming technique that is based off of the Wake Initiated Lucid Dream method. so you might not want to try this unless you know what your doing, but you can always try anyway.

You should first read part one of the WILD technique and part two of WILD inductions if you have never WILD'd or FILD'd before.

You should try this just after waking up from about 2-4 hours of sleep (you should be tired still).

1. First, relax, close your eyes and get comfortable (follow the WILD induction above).
2. Now move both your middle and index fingers in an alternating pressing and releasing motion *practice this: place your index and middle fingers on your computer keyboard X and Z keys while alternate pressing them, but try not actually press the keys down, just flex and release the muscles--you should see the muscles on the top of your hand move slightly, but nothing should be typed).
3. Do a reality check every 15-20 seconds. Take your other free hand and plug your nose with it and try to breath through it. If you can still breath through your nose then you are dreaming!

FILD Tips:
-Try not to think about the motion, do not count, try to keep your mind blank.
-Try not to scratch or cough, but  if you have to then just continue the technique right after--yes this interrupts it.
-DO NOT roll over. Try to fight the urge to roll over or move your arms/legs (except for RC)--this means your body is almost asleep, don't stop now!

Let me know if this works for you?

Free Lucd Dreaming Quickstart Guide & Mp3's

If your still struggling to get lucid dreaming under control, or have your first dream while your awake, then you might benefit from Lucidology's  FREE 8 Step Lucid Dream Quick-start Guide to trick your body into falling asleep.

Also included with the free guide is: a set of Lucid Dream timer Mp3's that are excellent even on their own!

This Free Lucid Dreaming guide with tips, tricks, techniques, and even free MP3's will help you get Lucid Dreaming quicker than you thought was possible.

Inside the Free Lucid Dream guide:
-Complete, concise, instructions on how to have a lucid dream
-The 7 biggest mistakes people make while trying to lucid dream
-How to tell how close you are to having a lucid dream
-Lucid Dream Induction Mp3's
-Many charts, diagrams, tricks, tips and techniques to help you master lucid dream
-Lots of information about having OBE's (I'm not really interested in OBE's though)



You might benefit from this free LD guide even if you are an advanced Lucid Dreamer because some of the information is incredibly insightful.

You will need a valid email address to download the free lucid dream guide, but it is defiantly worth it.

Lucid Dreaming and Medical Marijuana

Many people that are suffering from terminal illness can gain a greater quality of life from lucid dreaming. People that are too weak or unable to move: are able to walk, run, jump and fly in their lucid dreams. You could also use the time to visit places you have always wanted to visit, or people you have wanted to meet or haven't seen in awhile. There is even the possibility of trying to reduce, or even cure, the damage done by talking directly with your subconscious and asking your body to make the repairs.

Many people that are suffering  from Cancer, AIDs, and other terminal illnesses take medical marijuana as directed by their doctor to help with nausea, loss of appetite, pain, and many other symptoms.

I am NOT advocating the use of such substances, but people that are unable to function without it should NOT be denied the known, and potential, benefits of lucid dreaming.

Many lucid dreamer's have excellent dream recall before the illness hits, but after they started smoking marijuana they could not remember their dreams nearly as often or even at all (lucid or otherwise).

This is not a new claim, you can find a lot of people online talking about the positive and negative effects of pot on lucid dreaming and dream recall. Most of these say they you need to quit smoking for around a week in order to regain your former dream recall.

Lucid Dream Tips and Techniques for Medical Marijuana Users:

The truth is that marijuana inhibits your regular R.E.M. sleep cycle by a few hours; so you just need to adjust your sleeping schedule accordingly.
The offset is usually about 2-3 hours, so if you usually sleep 7 hours a night, then just try to sleep for around 10 hours and you will have your R.E.M. cycles start in the 8th or 9th hour.

The other problem is short term memory loss, which will often effect dream recall. You can curb this by stating your intent to remember your dreams as often as possible--especially right before you go to sleep.

Dream Drugs? Can you do drugs in your dreams?
Can you smoke marijuana or take other drugs in your dreams? Yes! Do they help? Actually, yes, kind of. You could take drugs while dreaming and when you wake up you can feel some of the euphoric effects--especially if you take a drug that doesn't exist that helps with exactly what you need fixed. Sometimes the drugs don't work, but that happens in real life too!

Many people with Cancer, AIDs and other terminal illnesses can benefit from the increased appetite, loss of nausea and pain relieving effects of marijuana, but the effects of lucid dreams can be even more powerful.

(You might check out the Lucid Dreams for Healing bonus ebook included in the Lucid Dreaming Made Easy package under the Featured Product Links if your interested in how to heal your sickness with lucid dreams.)

Your thoughts?

Visiting People and Places in your Lucid Dreams Tips

Tips on visiting people and places in your lucid dreams.

I though I would expand upon the places and people that you can visit in your lucid dreams after talking about Dream Guides in the last post. You can meet anybody you want in your lucid dreams: Relatives or friends that have passed away, currently living or dead celebrities, all-knowing-beings, people from other planets and times, coaches and personal trainers that help you improve yourself, and more! You can have in-depth conversations, ask questions, or even get them to show you how to play that lick, shoot that basket, or run that fast--you can even do physical training with then that will convert to real world results (google: mental practice). Imagine doing martial art training in the Matrix dojo, sitting down at a table with Einstein, John Lennon and Beethoven, or even flying over New York with the super hero of your choice (or all of them).

The world is a big place, but your imagination is bigger.
Imagine visiting an exotic location (e.g. Paris, Rome, Caribbean, Pyramids, Jungles, etc.).
You can visit any place you can imagine in a Lucid Dream, even places you would not normally be able to travel to; like Mars, Saturn, or distant planets and galaxies. You can even go to fictional places that are from books and movies--wouldn't it be cool to go to Alice's wonderland, or Avatar's pandora, or training grounds in The Matrix. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination (but improved with better dream control).

What are your ideas for places and people to visit?

Lucid Dreaming Tips

Lucid Dreaming Tips

After an overly extended hiatus; I'm back and ready to give out more great lucid dreaming tips and techniques. Sorry for the delay, I was in full time (9 classes a term) college (classical music) and work.

But now I'm back to talk about more Lucid Dreaming Tips, Tools and Techniques.

In my last post I introduced Lucid Dream Ideas which aims to give you ideas of things to try when your having a lucid dream. Things like: going to a different planet, talk with a historical figure, become somebody else, or meet your dream guide.

The Dream Guide Tip.
Sometimes a dream guide might be how you got lucid in the first place. Sometimes you'll be none lucid dreaming and won't know it, and a voice will shout from your dream: "Your Dreaming!" or you'll ask a character in a dream: "Hey, is this a dream?" and they will answer, ever so nonchalantly, "Yeah" or "Sure is", and Boom! Your lucid. Thanks for the tip dream guide.

The dream guide appears differently for everybody though, and I would imagine that everyone has a dream guide. The dream guide might appear as somebody you know, or a family member or a celebrity you admire, or an animal, or a god or a "presence", or almost anything; you probability won't know it's your dream guide at first, but they will recur in your dreams (maybe in different forms, but you'll eventually be able to feel/recognize them).

The dream guide seems to be a direct dialogue with your subconscious, allowing you to get deep and profound knowledge you didn't even know you knew, or discovering your true desires and how to actually obtain them.

Your dream guide can allow you to make profound changes in your life though your lucid dreams (which opens up the future planned section of Lucid Dream Training Tips).

The next Lucid Dreaming Tips and Techniques will continue to talk about visiting different people and places while you are lucid dreaming, and more info about the proposed Lucid Dream Training Tips.
 

Glad to be back.
Please comment.

Wake Initiated Lucid Dream (WILD) PART 3

WILDs are best done while being fairly alert, so best not to do it at the end of a day, maybe half way through the day or if your doing a WBTB maybe you could double up and try to do a WILD and if it fails and you fall asleep you can try your DILD in your WBTB.

Firstly lie down and relax, check out the Forced Relaxation article for more info.

I put two pillows under my head as to cut down on my want and need to swallow.
Now remain passively active.

There are many things different people do to remain passively active during a WILD here a a few:

• Imagine walking up or down stairs
• Count your breaths
• Count to or from 100
• Count and sing to yourself

The last one is the one I have found works best as counting interacts with the analytical side of the brain and the singing interacts with the creative side.
I usually do it like this:
1...I'm Dreaming
2...I'm Dreaming
3...I'm Dreaming
etc..
all the way to 100 and then back down if needed.
all the time singing "I'm Dreaming" in my head after every number I count.

Soon you should pass through all the stages presented in the WILD part 2 article.
To push along sleep paralyses you can tense and relax your muscles like when
body builders flex there pectoral muscles every 10-15 seconds or so for about a minute.

Soon the imagery should become clearer or more real and you should find yourself in a dream, while fully awake.

Wake Initiated Lucid Dream (WILD) PART 2

When you fall asleep while aware a lot of things happen:

• You have a need or want to roll over or move... DON'T or you will have to start all over
• Insatiable urge to swallow. same as above
• You go into sleep paralysis and are unable to move
• You see hypnagogic imagery (colors and blobs and patterns)
• You hear sounds that aren't in the room (voices etc.)
• You get strong or weak feelings of waves of energy through out your body
• You feel a "Presence" in your room and its frightening

These things all happen every night when you sleep but you will normally sleep through them,
during a WILD you will have to expect them and or ignore them.

Don't be frightened because:

• If you don't move you will be fine the feeling of uncomfortableness will pass soon.
• Your body paralyzes its self every night so you don't act out your dreams in your sleep and wake yourself up.
• Avoid swallowing as it will wake you up, this is a test to see if you are really asleep or not.
• Be passive to the imagery, if not it will pull you into sleep mode.
• These sounds are just warning signs that your getting close to dreaming while awake.
• These waves are part of sleep paralysis they may seem uncomfortable but they will pass.
• This has been called the Gatekeeper or Presence, some people think this is one of the final tests to see if you are asleep or not, you'll be fine just tough it out.

Why this works: Your body and brain are less connected then previously thought, if you lie still with your eyes closed and relaxed enough your body will think your brain has fallen asleep.
so your body tests the brain (with above tests) to make sure you really are asleep, and if you pass them all your body will go to sleep and engage your subconscious mind while your still conscious... A Lucid Dream.

Wake Initiated Lucid Dream (WILD) PART 1

The Wake Initiated Lucid Dream (WILD).

The WILD technique has many slight form variations but the general theme is the same: Go from an awake state directly into a lucid dream state without loss of awareness.

This sounds WILD in its self, so it's no wonderthat the most sought after skill in lucid dream inductions is the WILD technique.

It is considered a very hard skill to acquire, which is only half true.
It is more difficult to a beginner than DILD or WBTB but unlike the others with a WILD you don't need to become aware, you just need to stay aware while relaxing and not fall to sleep, and not be startled awake or else you have to start over.

Why would you be startled awake? well there are things your body does to test if your brain is really asleep and other things that your usually sleeping through that could frighten you if your not expecting it.

A basic rundown of doing a WILD would be:

• Get somewhat comfortable, not enough to fall asleep but just enough to relax.
• Close your eyes prepare yourself for your induction.
• Trick your body into thinking you brain is asleep
• Maintain awareness and shift your consciousness in to your lucid dream.

I will walk you though what I do and have found works best and explain the stages you go through so you will be less likely to be surprised and wake yourself up.

coming in PART 2 of Wake Initiated Lucid Dream...

DILD via Dream Signs

I'm now going to give an example of the using Dream Signs you have collected to help you have your first Lucid Dream.
First things first; You should have at least a weeks worth of dreams in your dream diary and the more the better. Okay get out your Dream Journal and go through every dream entry looking for obscure or strange things that could only happen in your dreams (or for the most part).

For example; I have a dream where I am in a field and I have a metal baseball bat and there are cinder blocks on pikes all around me and I know I'm supposed to smash them and well, usually, I do.
I seem very angry and want to destroy them very much.

And another one I have I'm in a house that is haunted or something and cooking things float around in the kitchen allot. I'm frightened and excited.
My last dream is very vague as it's new and not lucid (as well) as I been having non-lucid dreams as to try to go through the whole process to get a good beginners view.

These are not the best examples for dream signs but they will work.
So some of my dream signs could be to:

• Do a Reality check every time I feel angry or feel destructive.
• Anytime I see a baseball bat or cinder block (even in buildings walls, be creative if possible) I do a Reality check.
• Anytime I'm in a field, forest or open area I would do a Reality check.
• Anytime I feel afraid or excited
• Anytime I enter or leave a kitchen.
• Anytime I hear or think about hunting's or ghosts, or see something related to that I would do a Reality check.

Next up the WBTB (wake back to bed) technique if you haven't had a Lucid dream yet then this could be the best way to get you lucid tonight. (coming tomorrow night ;)