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My wife and I arrived in PV for the first time and on our way out of the airport we got talked into scheduling some excursions there. They paid for and arranged our taxi trip and to the airport, and set us up with 2 massages, 2 taco tours, 2 boat tours, and 2 bus tours for $160 USD and they gave us a bottle of tequila. Initially they wanted to charge us more but we kept acting uninterested and getting them to throw more in and lower the price. Idr what they first quoted us at.

The caveat is that we have to go to another hotel for a 75 minute tour tomorrow. Seemed worthwhile and like a great deal but after walking away I’m wondering if we got had somehow. Has anyone else done this?

TLDR: if you’ve been trying MILD or WILD consistently without success, consider trying SSILD.

I’ve been doing Jungian dream analysis on myself for about a year and a half. After becoming so acquainted with my dreams it eventually led me to few natural LDs that were absolutely incredible experiences, especially one dream where my lucidity was literally scripted into the dream. I decided I want to be able to LD more frequently and have been working at it for almost two months - I already did a lot to prioritize sleep hygiene and rem cycles so the main switch was reading Stephen Laberge’s Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, prospective memory exercises and RCs, and some visualization practices. I’d say I’ve been fully committed to learning this for two months without much success until a couple of nights ago.

I’ve been using MILD and sometimes attempting WILD, but the only success I had during these two months was four realizations that I was in a dream and then awakening immediately. One consistency is that these were all at the end of the rem cycle right before I woke up for WBTB.

Two days ago after seeing a post on SSILD I decided to give it a try. I set an alarm for 4 hours after I went to sleep, woke up and did the senses cycling, and boom I went right into a lucid dream. I don’t actually remember entering the dream but I knew I was in one and had a solid 5-10 minutes (I think) of active control. My lucidity certainly waned and I entered a narrative over time, but I noticed another dream sign after a time and became lucid again.

So if you’ve been giving MILD or WILD 100% with no success, consider trying SSILD! I hope this means I can start LDing with some frequency. It was such an incredible experience so I’m more jazzed than ever to keep up these habits I have created.

SSILD instructions I followed