Hello, many years ago I posted occasionally on the alt.lucid.dreams forum and kept a dream journal etc. I lost the strong dream interest and my dream recall is not fantastic but I now routinely have lucid dreams and have played around with some different techniques.

I only ever had a couple of WILDS back in the day, those were of the type where the whole body and mind would feel like they were vibrating with a building intensity.

This may be a technique that is already common or discussed but I have found that if one wakes up in the morning while still in the 'I could go back to sleep zone' you can induce a WILD by this method. Imagine yourself doing forward rolls (you probably don't do this too often as an adult but I'm sure you remember the sensation from your youth).. When I say imagine doing forward rolls I mean focus on that motion of the roll, imagine yourself in the first perspective doing roll after forward roll, you should find this upsets your equilibrium. I simply imagine myself forward rolling several times until I am unbalanced with my eyes closed and then I imagine myself standing up jumping in the air and opening my eyes. At this point I enter a dream state, usually lucid.

Will not work all the time, but I find if you wake yourself up for some reason (pushing the boundaries of your lucidity) this is a great way to return to the dream state. I often have mornings now where I can recall segments of lucidity spanning much of the morning (hours) applying this technique to return to lucidity after waking up.

I think maybe this technique could be used in other ways, like imagining yourself on a rollercoaster or spinning because I think the trigger is the sense of being unbalanced without visuals and then changing the action combined with an 'eye opening' (dream entering) combination.

I never usually bother to sign up on forums, more of a lurker but I am curious whether anybody else uses or has used similar methods.