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?

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Lucid Videos

Hey, been awhile... I've been busy but I just found this last week How to trick your body into falling asleep and having a Lucid Dream 2 great videos on how to Lucid Dream, I tryed it out and the Lucid Dreams are flowing now!
This method really works amazinly well. they did there lucid research for sure, and used technology to present it well.
Give it a look, The first video does a great job of explaining why your body falls asleep and how to keep your brain awake while it does it's thing, and the second goes into Wake Initiated Lucid Dreams (WILD). I myself don't really believe in OBEs (they only talk about OBE a bit) so I just omitted that from the information and had my Lucid Dreams, this worked great for me and I'm sure it'll work for you. Self inducing lucid dreams has become an easy task now for me because of this short series.
Click here to read more...

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...

Increase Dream Recall in one step

This simple technique could help you immensely!

This technique has been reported to; Increase dream recall dramatically as well as increasing chances of having lucid dreams.
You should have at least one lucid dream in one week if done everyday, works very well.

Simple tools needed:

• Fresh new notebook.

Now all that is required is for you to do a free association writing (write whatever comes to mind, nonsensical or not) session for 5-20 min (15 is perfect) every night before sleeping.
When you wake up do another free association session for the same amount of time, if you remember a dream make sure you record it first.

Try this for a week or two and see your results, every report I have seen has had great results.
I hope you enjoy your lucidity.

WBTB (Wake Back To Bed)

If DILD hasn't worked for you then this technique might do the trick.
WBTB (Wake Back To Bed) is a pretty simple technique:

• You set an alarm to get up an hour earlier than normal (do this on the weekend if your employed.)
• Wake up and get out of bed and think about lucid dreaming and maybe have a bite to eat, whatever just get up and hang out for an hour (no coffee) all the time thinking about lucid dreaming.
• You set another alarm to wake yourself up in 3 hours so you don't sleep through the day and then you go Back to bed.

"A 60% success rate has been shown in research using this technique."
- Stephen LaBerge of The Lucidity Institute
(citation found on wiki)

Make sure you think about having a lucid dream, think about what you want to do, where you want to go and as much more as you can. As you may have noticed what you think about effects your dreams. I hope your going to be lucid dreaming by tonight.

Please comment if any of this is useful to you (or not). thanks.

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 ;)

Dream Induced Lucid Dream

A DILD is what I have been building up to, and its simply making use of your Reality Checks.
The way to get this to work for you is to practice your Reality Checks DAILY as often as possible, and do this until it becomes habit. Once a habit is formed it could (and should) carry over into your dreams. So the idea is that at some point you will do a Reality Check (while dreaming) and you will (hopefully) have the Reality Check fail, Meaning that YOU ARE DREAMING.

If it does fail and YOU ARE DREAMING then you have complete freedom to do, well, most anything...