Any tips of staying calm during a WILD?

**Soapz** · 04-30-2005 06:43 PM

Well, i attempted my first WILD last night. (Slept, about 5 hours later my cell phone alarm awoke me. After awhile, I started to relax. I started saying "1, I am Dreaming. 2, I am dreaming.. " so on and so forth.

I also thought about the next step, and soon enough, my whole body felt numb, and I couldn't move.. (sleep paralysis).

I continued counting... all of a sudden, everything just went pitch black. I remembered in the tutorial, that opening your "dream eyelids" when it becomes pitchblack ends up with you seeing your dream.

Well, that's what happened, I started seeing images, my dream etc.. and said, "hey, I'm dreaming, I'm lucid" ( or so i thought) However, this got me excited and the whole dream vanished.

Are there any tips on staying calm? Is it just practice and getting used to Lucid dreams? Help!

**Hate** · 04-30-2005 09:11 PM

I think you hit the nail in the head in your last sentence

For me it was pretty much practice and getting used to lucid dreaming. At first my lucids were only several seconds long. I guess the same goes for staying calm in WILD though I'm not very good at them.

**Scotty G** · 05-03-2005 10:00 AM

I used to be in your boat. I would WILD, then upon entering the dream, I got all excited and would think of 10,000 things I wanted to do right then and there. Then it would end.

I got sick of the super short dreams and i thought to myself, "next time I'll be lucid, but im just gonna go with the flow." It really worked! When I WILD now i usually have a series of dreams (anywhere from a few to like 10...) I always try to just flow thru the first or second and see where it takes me, then by the 3rd or fourth and so on i can control em really easily and i don't wake up.

Its worth a shot