Dream_Hacker♀

Do what works! If LDing is personal, then WILDing is personal to the Nth power.

Pure mindfulness has nothing (directly) to do with lucid dreaming. You need to work in a constant element of reflection, looking out for the dream state. WH

I call this phenomenon a "false still awake"-ing, sort of a companion to false awakening. You're WILDing, and you think you're still awake, but you're actuall

Find a way to consistently work on them in a way that you find fun/rewarding. Because if you don't enjoy a practice, you won't do it for the long-run, and LDi

I can't even remember it's name other than it's named something starting with "R". Look back a couple weeks. There's quite a difference between technique hype

You're taking people's gushing messages as gospel truth of an established phenomenon. Define "a lot." I know personally of a few people who have good luck w

This is the claim. I'm not sure I believe it. It seems much more about raising awareness *while* you fall asleep, like MILD. That people find it useful

SSILD, like anything, is not a magic bullet. People love to hype things way beyond the reality. It is just a technique to manage the process of approaching

If you can fall asleep then it's not an issue. Looking hard was one of the main things keeping me awake. I realized I was holding a lot of tension in my eye

SSILD is OK. It is one way of many to focus your awareness outside of your head and to quiet the inner voice/chatter while you fall asleep. There are a bunch

Both, but I'm a bit lazy about the sitting meditation (which is somewhat odd since I almost always really enjoy it). In general, trying to stay tuned in most o

The main ingredients are: awareness work, critical reflection, dream recall, intent, WBTB. The benefit of awareness work extends far beyond just LDs, and one r

2 successes per week out of how many attempts? In any case, that's pretty good. I haven't heard of any such results from anyone particularly who doesn't do

Who said awareness comes easily? Building awareness is a journey, not a destination. It's wonderful that SSILD works every time for you. So how many LDs

Who says (besides the SSILD author) that SSILD is good for beginners? Why is this "apparent?" I see the opposite: SSILD threads a mile long on the main LD

Yeah, that "simple, idiot-proof" claim is pure BS. The remark about relaxation is ridiculous. The first bunch of times I tried SSILD I was wired wide awake

Yup. But there are (for some reason) some SSILD lovers here apparently, downvoting the responses calling SSILD and the "creator" to task.

I call BS (edit: not on SSILD per se [though I don't like it or promote it, I think at best it's neutral], but on the comments about awareness and critical refl