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@Rendar - It sounds like you are making some nice progress from your post in another thread and I think that you had two lucid moments that night based on what

I have a couple of ideas that I think will help based upon what you wrote and my experiences. I use SSILD and a variations of it primarily intending to DILD tho

I'll see if I can assist. How many attempts have you made using SSILD? What specifically do you focus on for the 3 senses? What are your day practices like?

^ Another SSILD success story! Nice job! I have been using it for over 3 years and it is what I used on most of my lucid nights. I usually fall asleep and get a

The most common RC's are motion based and thus could delay onset of sleep. If I am not in bed, my current RC is counting fingers, but your nose pinch RC is a gr

^Yes, very realistic scenarios can pop up in FA's making them more of a challenge to catch. That is good progress to have had enough awareness to question the p

Originally Posted by Raziiel: Hi everyone ! I'm here because I discovered the SSILD technique yesterday and I tried it, first you need to know that I never had

Originally Posted by Oneirin: A questions I had was that of short experiences - is it common for people to wake after 30 seconds, or experience shorter LDs wit

Wow this thread was dead until the one post of 2015 above. That's too bad as I really feel when combined with day practices, SSILD gave me a lot of momentum whe

Originally Posted by ThreeCat: This sounds like great advice to me, but didn't the OP suggest that wandering thoughts were a good sign? Has user experience su

Originally Posted by Elaol: I keep losing focus. I concentrate on sight, then hearing and then touch, just as explained, but on the second cycle my thoughts st

Originally Posted by Avalokiteshvara: Well, come to think of it, because of the ease of the method and powerful effects, SSILD probably has much to offer still

I will chime in and help where I can. Originally Posted by solpic: Also, for you or other people very experienced with the technique, how much extra sleep do

ay 17: Possibly an FA although I'm not sure, felt like a sort of half-awake / half-dreaming state, possibly an FA that I was "dreaming" in? Not sure if I shou

Originally Posted by FryingMan: Not meaning it to be judgemental, but logically, length of discussion thread does not necessarily correlate with "goodness of"

Originally Posted by BaronKriminel: as you wish but I see more people asking for help because not succeeding than people saying it is as easy as you say it is

I currently feel that this is the short answer: -Finding a way to do SSILD while falling asleep (but not so quickly that you don't at least get a few solid cyc

Originally Posted by AstralMango: Whoa, really? I thought it gave short lucids for some reason haha. So it's not the technique but it's the other factors, like

Originally Posted by Elrond: thank's sure hope ill be able to have much longer dreams with ssild, i love this technique. -------- Not sure if CosmicIron will

Originally Posted by VagalTone: After the problem of induction, it's the second one for most people. -------- Agreed As to the second question, i can only te