Fake WILD??

[littledreamer]

Kinda had a humorous dream last night, though it was quite interesting in nature. Thought I'd share. You see, I was in a room this morning lying down on the floor trying to sleep. There is a window directly in front of me, and it is quite bright outside already. I close my eyes, and in just moments I see the most vivid imagery on my eyelids. I try "looking" out the window and see extremely vivid imagery of birds flying over, the wind blowing around the trees, etc. I almost forget my eyes are closed, so I open my them and see a similar environment, though some trees are in other places plus some other slight differences. It clicks to me then, "Hey! If I can visualize this vividly now for some reason, I should be able to enter dreams consciously easily!" So, I try it again by closing my eyes. After a few short moments, I am seeing the most brilliant, vivid imagery again. Everything has a true-to-life nature to it. It is truly mesmerizing. I then notice my other senses start to step into the world that I see, plus I have some distortions and vibrations. I realize that I must be dreaming now, and I do a nose plug reality check that that confirms it. Now the dream becomes unstable, the extremely vivid imagery starts to go in and out of focus, and when I try to move my arm, the entire dream falls apart. I am now awake. In my bed. Not on the floor. That entire ordeal in a windowed room, eyes "open" or not, was a dream. I then slap myself in the forehead in a "could've had a V8" way for not realizing it in the first place. In short, I became lucid for a short time in a dream within and dream. Has this ever happened to any of you? Weird. LD

[Texture]

Haha no it hasn't happened to me, but I've read about plenty of other people who have had the same experience

[fOrceez]

Technically this is a DILD :3 but i have had it happen to me once ^_^

[ludr]

I once became lucid by trying to WILD in a non-lucid and teleporting myself into...a WILD within a non-lucid! Well maybe we can call it DIFWILD (Dream-Initiated Fake Wake-Initiated Lucid Dream) ;D

[faceonmars]

Nice post. Visualization is what its all about for me. It is the simplest method I know of to enter an LD in non-REM dreaming.

[Shadow27]

This HAS happened to me before. Several times I've tried to wild in a dream while I was unaware I was dreaming. For me the vibrations happen almost instantaneously. But I always end up getting nowhere with it and eventually wake up.

[Kitties]

Hahah yeah, that actually happened to me a few nights ago. Then I had a false awakening and "woke up" on the couch in my cousins' house, where I was actually sleeping. [...] Then my aunt was talking about how she could lucid dream, and I was like "me too!" I started trying to WILD, still in the dream, and managed to get partly into another dream a couple times, but kept getting 'woken up' by my cousins (not sure if I was actually waking up irl but I don't think I was). Finally I made it into a dream within the dream and was lucid in the new one. I was at a shopping centre in my city near a movie theatre, and my aunt was there as well in her pyjamas, and it was just sort of accepted that we could and were sharing dreams. She ran off, and I walked around the corner, touching walls and stuff and inspecting them and doing RCs. Then I thought of what I read in the School of Out of Body Travel book, about how it was guaranteed that whenever you stared at something very closely for a long time in a dream, it would start to warp and change. I stared at my finger closely for a while but nothing happened, so I started to wonder if I was really dreaming for a moment, but another nose RC confirmed that I was. Then I saw N was there [again :| get out of my head dude lol] so I gave him a hug. I then "woke up" back into the FA at my cousins' house, and they asked about the dream I'd just had, so I told them what happened.