FILD

I'm starting to search information about the FILD tecnique and I see that many people also use it like MILD or WILD.

I have two questions:

1. How effective is this tecnique for you to gain lucid dreams?

2. FILD causes sleep paralysis mainly like WILD does?

Thanks for the answers.

Lucid dreaming is very heavily reliant on willpower. Sleep paralysis seems to be weakening your resolve to lucid dream. What can Sleep Paralysis do to you? I mean, of course there can be hypnagogic illusions, but they cannot physically do anything to you. You cannot get hurt in dreams. Yes you have senses, yes you can feel a tiny degree of pain, but it really is not anything more than a funny bone kind of feeling. I myself look forward to the night I have sleep paralysis.

I have been thinking about FILD, and I think it would be very effective in combination with DEILD.

Goldkoron wrote: Lucid dreaming is very heavily reliant on willpower. Sleep paralysis seems to be weakening your resolve to lucid dream. What can Sleep Paralysis do to you? I mean, of course there can be hypnagogic illusions, but they cannot physically do anything to you. You cannot get hurt in dreams. Yes you have senses, yes you can feel a tiny degree of pain, but it really is not anything more than a funny bone kind of feeling. I myself look forward to the night I have sleep paralysis.

I have been thinking about FILD, and I think it would be very effective in combination with DEILD.

I know what is sleep paralysis and that it can't actually hurt me but I am a coward xD

That's why I am not using WILD also.

Goldkoron wrote: I myself look forward to the night I have sleep paralysis.

Whenever I had it, it occured after a lucid dream, when it faded, but I refused to wake up and stayed as relaxed as I could to try and re-enter a dream again. Sometimes it would fail, and I'd 'wake-up' to the sleep paralysis experience (in all it's many forms, which are countless). It's like a false awakening, but with fear for some reason, even if it's full of colors and bright. I've heard it has something to do with the Amygdala in our brains, but try and rationalize that to yourself when it's happening! :lol:

I wish a scary episode of sleep paralysis on you too. It makes us stronger and wiser. And you will not be harmed. Ignore the fear mongers out there! 8-)

*Only once did I get it without knowing it was a dream. Otherwise I was lucid, which helps a lot, but lucid doesn't always mean full control!

I just read about FILD a couple of days ago and decided to try. I woke up at 4am and started to do the "finger moves". Like a minute after, i started to sense a little vibration on my body. But then it disappeared. It was the first time, so, i have to practice. But i guess this is a good technique.

What is FILD/ I haven't heard of this technique before

cheer_princess wrote: What is FILD/ I haven't heard of this technique before

Just google FILD and you'll see tons of information about that.

Ok thanks

I heard about this technique a few months ago and only decided to give it a try over the last four nights. I've had some good success so far managing to get multiple lucids three out of the four nights. I've never experienced sleep paralysis before so can't comment on that sorry.

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I very scared of this sleep paralysis shit. I mean who wouldn't be? Feeling someone calling your name and you can't even move. Moving is the best self-defence technique, like running. Can anyone share their experience of sleep paralysis while trying the WILD/FILD technique and maybe give me a little bit of confidence to try

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I tried FILD a while back and it worked a treat. It was done as a WILD and I started with a finger and then progressed to a few fingers on one hard. I seemed to drift from very small finger movement to no (physical) movement and the feeling of moving fingers. Soon after that as I was drifting my hand felt like it was warming up and then I was in the dream, lucid and aware.

Peter wrote: I tried FILD a while back and it worked a treat. It was done as a WILD and I started with a finger and then progressed to a few fingers on one hard. I seemed to drift from very small finger movement to no (physical) movement and the feeling of moving fingers. Soon after that as I was drifting my hand felt like it was warming up and then I was in the dream, lucid and aware.

Since you have suceeded in this method, I want to ask you that how does it feel after the WILD technique? Do you just instantly fall into the dream or you have to create a scenario?

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Just fell into the dream or as I say the dream reached out and took me in. I dont create a scenario but just get in there and then stabilize the dream first. After that If I have something to do then yes I try to set it up in some way or play with what I am given for a while.

Ok Thanks

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I read that sleep paralysis could be avoided with wearing an eye patch? So you don't see the scary stuff (I don't know about hearing things). I am also very scared of it.

I doubt it as its all inside your mind anyway. Before you try to get lucid just repeat to yourself that there is nothing to fear and you will accept anything that comes your way. In time you get to accept all the distractions as part of the pathway to getting lucid