DEILD - Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dreams

DEILD is an abbreviation for Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dream.

The DEILD technique takes advantage of when you awake in the middle of a dream, but you have not yet moved. When your body is motionless after waking from a dream, it is much easier to fall right back to sleep. The minute you make any movement (such as turning off an alarm), then you lose this dream exit state and you will have to use the WILD technique instead of the DEILD.

Entering lucidity from the waking state into a lucid dream is nearly impossible, because your mind has to wind down through the NREM stages of your sleep cycle. These NREM stages take a while and it is difficult to get through them without losing consciousness and awareness that you are dreaming. The DEILD technique allows you to go right back into REM, bypassing the NREM stages, which makes this technique much more likely to induce a lucid dream.

To perform the DEILD technique, do the following:

Step 1:
Set an alarm clock to wake you up 5 to 6 hours after falling asleep. However, the alarm you set needs to go off only a couple times and then it needs to turn itself off automatically. Cell phones are great for this, because they have vibrate mode. The idea here is that you want to wake up from your dream, but not to the point of having to move or get up.

Step 2:
Once you wake up, the alarm will go off by itself (as you planned). Be sure that you don't move at all (or you will wake up too much and not be able to fall back to sleep as easily).

Step 3:
After the alarm auto-shuts off, begin making a conscious effort to remain lucid and aware as you drift back into your REM sleep. If possible, try to visualize the dream you previously woke up from and see yourself re-entering that dream, but in a conscious state.

Step 4:
As you enter the dream, you will have a greater chance of becoming lucid.

This technique is one of the most popular lucid induction techniques, because of it's high success rate. It takes advantage of your mind still being within the REM wave state. Since you are in this unique state, it's much easier to enter right back into your dream. The crucial part is that remain as motionless as possible when you wake up (which can be a challenge).

Some consider this a piggyback technique, where you are going from one dream to another. This actually happens throughout the night. Each time we finish a dream, we wake up momentarily before diving right back into another dream.

However, we usually go right back to sleep and the next morning, we don't even realize that we woke up. By setting the alarm to wake you up, you are more conscious about this, but not TOO conscious to wake up completely. This provides a great opportunity to fall back to sleep in a state of lucidity.