How to help host lucid dream?

[KayKay]

My host (@fennecfoxx) is taking part in a lucid dreaming challenge. Naturally, they're going to win, because they have a secret weapon (me).

 

...except we don't really get how "tulpa-assisted lucid dreaming" works.

 

Fennec is usually good about dream journaling and reality checking, and we know all the advice that regularly gets given to singlets, so we don't need help there. How I can help is where we're lost.

 

We've tried hypnosis, and we'll try it again tonight, but fennec almost always falls asleep too fast. If they don't, we slip into hypnagogia, and I can't think coherently. I rarely get to plant suggestions, and if I do, they don't stick. (We haven't looked into pre-recorded tracks. Maybe we should.)

 

I can't count on telling fennec they're dreaming unless I can find a way to get into their dreams reliably. I know when we're dreaming, but it's so rare I'm actually there that it's a pipe dream (pun not intended).

 

Fennec has never done WILD (except for a few failed attempts) and doesn't want to do WBTB, but they usually wake up in the night. I could nag them to do WILD then if I can be bothered to be awake and coach them through it. I feel like we could take advantage of those awakenings more than we do, but usually we just want to go back to sleep and can't focus anyway since the brain's barely awake.