A new year can only mean one thing, trying for WILD resolution! |
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I always appreciate your input sageous, thank you. |
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A new year can only mean one thing, trying for WILD resolution! |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
^^ That seems an excellent technique, Ctharlhie. I think it might work well for you, since it is very well organized, refreshingly simple, and is fueled by your strengths and interests. About the only downside I can imagine from it is the occasional FA, false lucid, or full-NLD taking place in your room, but your day-work (aka, mindset, MILD) ought to make that sort of dull dream just a low hurdle rather than a wall before lucidity. |
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actually APs are real. Some days ago one of my close relative had an AP. seen her own body laying on the bed and also seen the silver cord connected with her physical and Astral body. The most interesting part is, she never knew about the AP. after she shared her experience to me, I told her about AP. |
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So i've been continuing my WILD work, getting varying results, but never full successful. My HI has started producing effects like I am quickly flying among trees/people and so I have tried to imagine my flying right into the dream, didn't work. |
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Last edited by 11Greg; 02-05-2015 at 05:28 AM. Reason: some spelling and grammar
First time!! |
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Last edited by StephL; 02-10-2015 at 09:56 PM.
^^ That's great news, Steph; congratulations! |
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Just to keep the success stories rolling, here's a update on my progress with the dive technique posted above. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
Thank you Sageous!! |
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congrags StephL! i was exited when reading your experience specially watching those pictures. very nice! I never thought HH can be that amazing! |
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Not so funny, to me. With WILD you are doing two things that are quite different from your normal wake-to-sleep-to-dream process: You are staying self-aware, which we all know well, but you are also asking your unconscious, your dreaming mind, to assemble a dream very quickly and perhaps a little off-schedule. So, due to a temporary lack of spool-able data, your dreaming mind grabs whatever it can. And, so very often, what it grabs is your most recent waking-life environment. FA's come from this break in the process schedule too, I think. So in your case your dreaming mind "left" your body in bed, probably out of expediency. It was a good thing you had that galaxy challenge in your head (even if you didn't realize at the moment), or else you might have wound up completely in your room... which probably wouldn't have been a problem thanks to your high level of lucidity. |
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Thank you Sageous, yep - like this! |
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Well, I guess my SubC got jealous looking at all of this success. I WILDed the night before last during my micro WBTB. I finished my short MILD, and then tried to fall asleep but couldn't. Lied there for 30 minutes because checked my watch. Then rolled onto my back. Difficulty remembering my train of thought (can't remember technique, but think it was just a sense of "being aware"--not very helpful) but I moved seamlessly from the waking state into a roll-out style transition. No vibration or HH. Congrats everybody! Guess it's a been a "WILD" week . . . . |
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Stephen LaBerge's tips for MILD: (http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-expe...ml#post2160952
Looking behind my eyelids, I saw some yellow specks so I tried to make the ringing in my ears as loud as possible. As soon as I did this, a dream scene of my room formed within a couple of seconds. Hopefully this works consistently! I've been often been seeing HH lately but didn't know what to do with it until now. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
Gave your technique a try, dolphin. Almost WILDed. HA increased: sound of screen door and my dad approaching the bed, telling me to wake up. For a moment I thought the dream was set, and thought about opening my eyes. This, I think, distracted me and the transition ended. I'll give it a shot again, since audio is my primary form of HH. Thanks for the tip! |
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Stephen LaBerge's tips for MILD: (http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-expe...ml#post2160952
It worked again for me last night. I got a DEILD. |
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Today I made my first “real” WILD attempt, though it was a bit of an on-the-fly decision. |
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^^ Pretty cool indeed; thanks for sharing! |
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I actually thought something like that could have happened, though it was hard to say for sure. It would seem a bit unexpected to lose consciousness in such a short period of time when I felt pretty aware, but I would imagine it's possible. In my few previous LD transitions, it was much more clear and obvious when it occurred, so I thought this was a little bit odd. But, yeah, it was still cool that I made it anyway, and remembered what I had been doing. If there was a lapse, perhaps it was a very brief one. |
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Last edited by TravisE; 02-26-2015 at 10:04 AM. Reason: Added a paragraph
I hear you; that is one of my Achilles' heels as well -- that and allowing unwanted daytime thoughts to wander in as the time passes without any. I picked up a nice technique from Alan Wallace that lets those dreamlets (and thoughts) pass without doing too much damage: |
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^ Interesting idea; I've seen that method being mentioned but never considered applying it to dreamlets as well. I recently discovered that I can usually get into dreamlets within a few minutes by meditating just before going to sleep, making them easily accessible for practice. Currently I'm at the point where, as long as I'm not too tired, I can hover in that state for a while without falling completely asleep and recognize and easily recall them immediately after they happen (though I still often lose awareness briefly during them). I find it enjoyable to observe and attempt to manipulate them on a regular basis; maybe doing this will also help me get better at retaining lucidity with them. |
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Last edited by TravisE; 02-27-2015 at 10:14 AM.
I've reread these tutorials recently and have been giving WILDing another serious shot, having changed a lot of things that I was doing incorrectly. Namely I was often attempting to WILD at the beginning of the night. I would almost always experience vibrations and some amount of HI but would eventually settle into a deep darkness. Inevitably I would get bored of staying aware in this state and try to sleep only to be unable to. I've since cut this out. |
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^^ It seems like you did everything quite nicely, BrotherGoose, and made several excellent decisions; except one: You forgot about the dream itself. |
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^^ I've had 'bad' experiences where chasing the dream feeling too long has prevented me from sleeping the rest of the night. I think that upon reflection this is likely back in the time when I was attempting WILDs at the beginning of the night. I'll add patience to my list of things to work on haha! |
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