Can't WILD anymore

**mimihigurashi** · 05-04-2014 10:53 AM

About 90% of my lucid dreams have happened via WILD. Now, for about 2 weeks, I've been trying almost every single morning, with zero results. Here is what I do/try, this is what used to work for me in the not so distant past, just several weeks ago when I could WILD:
-waking up 2 hours earlier than usually
-writing down dream keywords
-going back to bed and relaxing
-doing SSILD, or just consciously waiting for my body to fall asleep
-transitioning into a dream

This used to work not all the time, but with decent consistency, now nothing, I just fall asleep suddenly without a chance of realizing it, no vibrations or anything, and I'm dumbfounded, why is this happening? I looked it up and found a couple vague posts about something called a "dry spell"? What is that, and is normal/happening now or?.. What's going on..

**Phased** · 05-04-2014 12:36 PM

This does sound odd. Has anything happend in your waking life that might be causing you to be stressed or tired lately? If so that's a likely candidate for what's causing your dry spell. If I were you I'd probably take a break from attempting WILDs for a bit, maybe a week or less and then try again, that may help.

Feel free to ask questions and ill try to answer them as best I can..

**mimihigurashi** · 05-04-2014 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by Phased

This does sound odd. Has anything happend in your waking life that might be causing you to be stressed or tired lately? If so that's a likely candidate for what's causing your dry spell. If I were you I'd probably take a break from attempting WILDs for a bit, maybe a week or less and then try again, that may help.

Feel free to ask questions and ill try to answer them as best I can..

The only thing that happened is changing my schedule to 3 hours earlier (at 8 am now). But it's not like I'm not used to the new schedule yet, I've been waking up rested for a long while now =/ No stress or anything. I might consider a break, though I don't really like the idea, it's like wasting time to me.