Apparently TILD has many different meanings. There is another thread about Toilet Induced Lucid Dreams (the only TILD I will be referring to in this thread), but it is not quite the same as what I'm talking about.
The TILD method I am experimenting with here is all about those times when you literally fall asleep while sitting on the toilet. Maybe I'm the only one who does this, but working a 10 hour shift, and biking hard to and from work, all on an average of just 6 hours of sleep makes it unfortunately common right when I get home from work.
I have had two dreams that I remembered long enough to log here so far using this method. Just today, I had 4, but only remembered 1 of them. The purpose of this thread is to track my progress and experimentation with this method until I get a lucid dream this way, or until my sleep schedule changes and it is no longer convenient to practice the TILD method.
Observations:
- All this generally occurs within 3 - 10 minutes
- I am totally relaxed, usually resting my head on my hand
- Eyes open or closed, doesn't matter
- My thoughts begin to wander much more outside of my conscious control, while still being within my conscious awareness.
- Thoughts link to other thoughts through recognizable associations from my personal experiences, but the associations are unconscious until back-tracking moment to moment after the TILD event.
- The thoughts change from one to the other very quickly, not lingering on any particular one for much elaboration or further fleshing out of the details.
- I generally think in a particular direction, about a specific thing, on purpose, until I get distracted by random associations. Once distracted, other distractions arise and I usually don't even notice I've lost my focus.
* One of the thoughts becomes a dream at some point, and I directly experience it with all my senses. Just like waking life, I am at the place and time, surrounded by the characters and events that support that thought.
- As soon as I realize I'm seeing my thoughts, "dreaming", I think about how cool that is and wake up.
- The duration is historically quite short, just long enough to see a few scenes / hear a few sentences, and then notice I am dreaming. That recognition of "I'm seeing my thoughts" has occurred at the exact time I've woken up most times, but not every time.
- My head falling off my hand, leads to my body falling forward, the falling sensation then wakes me up before I biff it head first, pants down, off the toilet.
- I notice the process of what happened after waking up, or while waking up. (The whole distraction by random association, followed by random thoughts, and eventually a dream that spawns directly from the thought)
Hypotheses to test:
- My method of recognizing that I am dreaming is waking me up because I'm framing it from my awake perspective of, "I'm on the toilet, and seeing my thoughts right now"
- There is a way to relate to the thoughts as they are chaining to each other quickly in such a way as to expedite the "dream" experience.
- Too much conscious control of my thoughts prevents the dream state
Experiments to conduct during a potential TILD session:
- - - - - Note: None of these have to make sense to you, I can elaborate if it works, or requested.
- Relate to all my thoughts as "me" (doesn't have to make sense to you, I'll explain it more if it works)
- Purposefully do not focus my mind on just what my mind is thinking, not on a specific thought
- Fully imagine using all my senses the dream I wish to have, while being very flexible to let the specifics be unconsciously created. Consciously only adding the imagined experience to what my unconscious mind is presenting to me.
- Different hand positions that are more stable? Maybe a two handed prop instead of one handed. Maybe leaning back on the toilet reservoir tank (note: clean it first).
Now that I'm seriously pursuing TILDs, I am reminded that they are all really just a subset of WILDs, so I assume some of the specific techniques that work for TILDs will carry over to WILDs. The advantage of a TILD is the limited duration of the sleeping time without needing an alarm clock - making it easier to recall the dreams.
Just think of all the cool stories you could tell your friends if you had some epic TILDs.
The TILD method I am experimenting with here is all about those times when you literally fall asleep while sitting on the toilet. Maybe I'm the only one who does this, but working a 10 hour shift, and biking hard to and from work, all on an average of just 6 hours of sleep makes it unfortunately common right when I get home from work.
I have had two dreams that I remembered long enough to log here so far using this method. Just today, I had 4, but only remembered 1 of them. The purpose of this thread is to track my progress and experimentation with this method until I get a lucid dream this way, or until my sleep schedule changes and it is no longer convenient to practice the TILD method.
Observations:
- All this generally occurs within 3 - 10 minutes
- I am totally relaxed, usually resting my head on my hand
- Eyes open or closed, doesn't matter
- My thoughts begin to wander much more outside of my conscious control, while still being within my conscious awareness.
- Thoughts link to other thoughts through recognizable associations from my personal experiences, but the associations are unconscious until back-tracking moment to moment after the TILD event.
- The thoughts change from one to the other very quickly, not lingering on any particular one for much elaboration or further fleshing out of the details.
- I generally think in a particular direction, about a specific thing, on purpose, until I get distracted by random associations. Once distracted, other distractions arise and I usually don't even notice I've lost my focus.
* One of the thoughts becomes a dream at some point, and I directly experience it with all my senses. Just like waking life, I am at the place and time, surrounded by the characters and events that support that thought.
- As soon as I realize I'm seeing my thoughts, "dreaming", I think about how cool that is and wake up.
- The duration is historically quite short, just long enough to see a few scenes / hear a few sentences, and then notice I am dreaming. That recognition of "I'm seeing my thoughts" has occurred at the exact time I've woken up most times, but not every time.
- My head falling off my hand, leads to my body falling forward, the falling sensation then wakes me up before I biff it head first, pants down, off the toilet.
- I notice the process of what happened after waking up, or while waking up. (The whole distraction by random association, followed by random thoughts, and eventually a dream that spawns directly from the thought)
Hypotheses to test:
- My method of recognizing that I am dreaming is waking me up because I'm framing it from my awake perspective of, "I'm on the toilet, and seeing my thoughts right now"
- There is a way to relate to the thoughts as they are chaining to each other quickly in such a way as to expedite the "dream" experience.
- Too much conscious control of my thoughts prevents the dream state
Experiments to conduct during a potential TILD session:
- - - - - Note: None of these have to make sense to you, I can elaborate if it works, or requested.
- Relate to all my thoughts as "me" (doesn't have to make sense to you, I'll explain it more if it works)
- Purposefully do not focus my mind on just what my mind is thinking, not on a specific thought
- Fully imagine using all my senses the dream I wish to have, while being very flexible to let the specifics be unconsciously created. Consciously only adding the imagined experience to what my unconscious mind is presenting to me.
- Different hand positions that are more stable? Maybe a two handed prop instead of one handed. Maybe leaning back on the toilet reservoir tank (note: clean it first).
Now that I'm seriously pursuing TILDs, I am reminded that they are all really just a subset of WILDs, so I assume some of the specific techniques that work for TILDs will carry over to WILDs. The advantage of a TILD is the limited duration of the sleeping time without needing an alarm clock - making it easier to recall the dreams.
Just think of all the cool stories you could tell your friends if you had some epic TILDs.
via Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views - Attaining Lucidity http://ift.tt/1rSHZDm
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