Thread: Weird issue with WILD (surprise surprise)

Hi there,

The most important thing is to ALWAYS do a reality check every time you wake up. Not just the times you are trying WILD, or when you think about "maybe" being a dream. I mean always. When you wake up in the middle of the night to have some water, when you wake up, check the clock and go back to sleep, and even after the alarm clock.

I had this as a routine and catched many false awakenings. Lately I stoped doing it for some reason, and missed some. I even had a short lucid a couple weeks ago, woke up while feeling sad it ended, and while I was doing some things, I woke up for real.

I also experienced those frustrating FA when trying WILD some times. You think you failed, even if you wake up in your grandmothers house, which also isn't her real house, and still feel you're awake...

Maybe you already do RCs, but just wanted to give the advice. It takes some time to get used to it. Several days of "arrggg... I forgot the RC again...". But eventually you get to it.

Hey Jesslet, Irreo has a good point: make sure to do some kind of RC upon awakening. Just glancing at a clock will not always work, simply because we usually expect the clocks to function--at least on some level--and if they don't, we make up an excuse (it's broken, or whatever). Much more difficult to explain to yourself why you can breathe if you have your nose pinched

As for increasing lucidity, do you mean your overall awareness that what you are experiencing is a dream? Or the level of dream vividness?

If you mean the former (lucidity), then it is often enough to just pause, remind yourself that everything you are experiencing is a construct of mind, and then proceed mindfully. That's fairly lucid.

If the dream is simply not vivid, WILDs can be like that at the very beginning (but not always); I think it has to do with the dream generators still getting "spun up" (I think Sageous mentions this somewhere, and it is a point with which I definitely agree). Just proceed with things as normal, and often the scene will become more realistic as you interact with it. It is probably a good ideas not to worry about vivifying the scene, as this could turn into an obstacle (fading or receding dream scene, FAs, etc.).