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It can be utilized in addition to Wake Induced Lucid Dreams (falling back asleep physically, while keeping your mind awake mentally) or Dream Induced Lucid Dreams (simply realizing you're dreaming mid-dream)
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or etc.
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WILDs are impossible for me as my brain is incredibly strict about only being 100% awake or 100% asleep (probably why I can't nap as well), but I've trained myself to notice I'm dreaming pretty dang well
Every time i try wild i just get into a weird state of forgetting what i'm trying to do and ending up moving my body qnd waking up
Every time i try dild, my dreams are more dissociative than normal, but nothing much changes other than that
Some people experience hypnagogia/especially hypnopompia (waking up version) so consistently they actively choose to interact with their tulpas in that time
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And then others are like me, lol
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Years of trying every lucid dreaming technique and having zero success outside of training myself to randomly realize I'm dreaming more often, in waking life
One time I became aware while asleep, but not during a dream. So it was just dark and blank ha ha
Kei Wendt
Yeah i'd like to think i'm getting closer since i've been having more moments in dreams where i've done a reality check and gone "huh this is a dream" but it's never led to awareness for me so idkk
Anyways, it sounds like your problem is pretty clearly a lack of discipline/focus when reality checking
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Practice your reality checks in waking life, making sure you become more aware when doing them - become more aware of your environment and senses, and gather yourself mentally to focus on what you would want to do if you just became lucid in a dream
I just wish i could actually succeed at it
But my dreams have always felt less like i was experiencing them and more like they were imposed upon me. For example, i often experience dreams in third person, and every action 'i' try to do (not because i'm aware of ut being a dream, but because i think of what i should do in the dream somehow?) ends up being cancelled out by the dream's course of action
Also, establishing dream signs can help with reality checking a lot, meaning finding scenarios/objects/people/etc. that often occur in your dreams and associating them with remembering to reality check
Reisen
Practice your reality checks in waking life, making sure you become more aware when doing them - become more aware of your environment and senses, and gather yourself mentally to focus on what you would want to do if you just became lucid in a dream
"shifting" makes me cringe though so keep that here
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By the way, talking or reading about dream stuff to the extent we just did has an extremely high chance of causing you to remember more dreams tomorrow, as well as increasing your chances of realizing you're dreaming tonight
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Not placebo, just a time-tested observation
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Guess it's like improving your dream recall, exercising the dreaming-related parts of your brain wakes them up for a bit(edited)
Telling someone irl about a lucid dream I had, gave me another lucid dream just a day or two later. I was saying how next time I'll try XYZ and then, well, I got the opportunity to. Of course, you can't share a lucid dream if you don't have one...
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We like MILD techniques, though, prospecting how a dream might go and become lucid etc
Sorry if I wasn't clear... I'm single handedly speaking a person who's emotions are quite unstable + around here at once along with planning something I gotta do soon..
The CIA experienced with the occult in the 70s thinking they might use it against Russia, realized it didn't work and has abandoned it since then. We're safe
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