WBTB + MILD, a few questions

Hey everyone.

I've recently started to attempt to get back in lucid dreaming - I used to be able to do it regularly around a year ago but stopped. I chose the WBTB combined with MILD method as it's always seemed to work very well for me personally. I've spent the past week improving recall and whatnot and tried the method for the first time last night. I actually succeeded on my first attempt.. well, sort of. I noticed how text on my iPhone changed every time I looked at it in my dream, which sort of caused everything to surge in to focus, before I found myself lying in my bed, unable to move. I tried to move around and after a few minutes managed to sit up in the bed, performed an RC which confirmed it was actually a dream. Then I suddenly got this awful prickling sensation all over me, felt like I was on fire. After this I woke up..

My questions are, I was unable to see anything during this.. it was like my eyes were closed in the LD; I could open them for a split second and see my room but they'd close again. I only stayed up for around 7 minutes during the WBTB, so could that have anything to do with it? The burning sensation, I assumed was a hallucination because my dream sort of went from being a DILD to a WILD. :cheeky: That's my other question, DILD or WILD. Because it seemed like both - I had to physically pull myself away from the bed before being able to move and perform an RC.

Excuse my amateur knowledge - it's been a year since I've done this!

I would say still a DILD, although you did a WBTB you never skipped from wake to dream and remained completely aware of what was going on. You became aware by looking at your iPhone in the dream.

I heard on the radio about iPhones being used to bring about Lucid Dreams, so it is good to do.

WILDs that begin with the hallucination of being in bed are notoriously messy. Lots of people report some partial paralysis, or insurmountable lethargy. You can think of it as having two bodies, your dream body, and your sleeping body. It can be easy to confuse the two, like they are sticking together. Maybe you are still a bit aware of your real body in bed, so you feel some of the wackiness that accompanies the onset of REM sleep.

I like to start my WILD or MILD by imagining myself somewhere other than my own bed. This helps move my attention away from my real body, so I don't feel any overlap.

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Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

WILDs that begin with the hallucination of being in bed are notoriously messy. Lots of people report some partial paralysis, or insurmountable lethargy. You can think of it as having two bodies, your dream body, and your sleeping body. It can be easy to confuse the two, like they are sticking together. Maybe you are still a bit aware of your real body in bed, so you feel some of the wackiness that accompanies the onset of REM sleep.

I like to start my WILD or MILD by imagining myself somewhere other than my own bed. This helps move my attention away from my real body, so I don't feel any overlap.

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With some experimentations with Lucid dreaming the person has to get up and write about the dream.

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Originally Posted by quassom

I would say still a DILD, although you did a WBTB you never skipped from wake to dream and remained completely aware of what was going on. You became aware by looking at your iPhone in the dream.

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no thats not a DILD. technicaly you can say that but it's nothing like what we usually define as a DILD. WILDs usually start in an area similar to where they fell a sleep which is sometimes confusing and hard to tell if they are dreaming at first. once they notice something wierd, they realize automaticaly that it's a dream. Never losing consciousness is the defining trait of a WILD while in a DILD, that sort of awarness is subdued to the bar minimum. just because you don't realize you are dreaming for the first few seconds of a wake induced dream doesn't mean it's a DILD. WILDS have no laspe in consious while DILDs do.