Trying my first WILD Tonight!

I've been mostly using a MILD and DILD technique, but have had little success with actual lucidity, so tonight I'm going to start trying WILDs! I've come close to them when I've tried before, but I've usually freaked out!

This time, I plan to remain calm, visualise, and try to guide any hypnagogic hallucinations I might experience, but I know that sleep paralysis and scariness won't necessarily happen, and I tell myself that I can likely remove myself from anything if I feel too uncomfortable.

Does anyone have any good advice for a beginning WILDer?

Thanks!
Liolar

Ohhhh, how exciting!

You plan sounds great, I have nothing to add : D

The HH you mention, you may/may not get any. And SP you will get but only after you already fall asleep, and by then you will not notice, care or even think about being in SP, because you will be lucid. Woooo!

Well, after tonight, about the only advice I can honestly offer is that you read through my DVA WILD class sometime soon, and take some time to settle into the notions of what is involved in a successful WILD dive... even if your WILD dive tonight is successful, I hope you will still check it out!

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Thanks for the bits of advice folks. My WILD dive tonight wasn't successful, as I kind of ended up rolling over and falling asleep naturally, but even so, when I stayed still I managed to experience a certain amount of muscle tensing, this odd feeling as if the darkness behind my eyelids was expanding and puddling, and some vague distoritions in the white noise of an electric heater I had going in the background, so it gives me confidence that I will manage it with some practice!

Good luck if you decide to try again. Do keep in mind that you can try all the WILD techniques known to man, but if you wake up at the wrong time, all your effort will be in vain..

Tonight or morning?

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Originally Posted by mimihigurashi

Good luck if you decide to try again. Do keep in mind that you can try all the WILD techniques known to man, but if you wake up at the wrong time, all your effort will be in vain..

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That would explain to some extent why I remember absolutely nothing, then! My mother barged into my room at about 8:30 in the morning ranting about something my Aunt had been saying. :P

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Originally Posted by yaya

Tonight or morning?

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I'll be trying again tonight! :D

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Originally Posted by Liolar

I'll be trying again tonight! :D

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Then it's already doomed to fail..

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Originally Posted by mimihigurashi

Then it's already doomed to fail..

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Why so? Should I be doing a pile of mental prep or something first? Or should I only try it in the morning?

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Originally Posted by Liolar

Why so? Should I be doing a pile of mental prep or something first? Or should I only try it in the morning?

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One of the basics when it comes to WILD is that you need a few hours of sleep first. Ideally you would wake up in the morning during REM and try it. There are tons of tutorials on WILD, both on this site and others. Have you read any?

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Originally Posted by mimihigurashi

One of the basics when it comes to WILD is that you need a few hours of sleep first. Ideally you would wake up in the morning during REM and try it. There are tons of tutorials on WILD, both on this site and others. Have you read any?

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I see; Reading through one right now! I'll have to remember to set an alarm, then; I often have a tendency to sleep right through until getting-up time.

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I see; Reading through one right now! I'll have to remember to set an alarm, then; I often have a tendency to sleep right through until getting-up time.

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..Yeahh, reading a tutorial before attempting a new technique would help.
Set a gentle alarm if you must. Use a chart like this to figure out after how many hours to wake up to be in REM. It's not an 100% accurate thing, but it's a start point.

Thanks! Yeah, since it was my first time trying I kind of just figured "Oh, WILD, that's that one where you lay really still"; since I'd already been practicing self-awareness quite successfully for about a month I figured I was set. Most likely not. =P I'm sure there'll be no harm in giving it a shot every few awakenings while I'm learning the ropes. Since my dreams have steadily been becoming more vivid and involved more things I consider dream signs more often, I'm quite confident that I should manage it at least during the coming month.

I see that you're very motivated to have a lucid dream which is good as this can result in spontanious LDs on it's own. Like others already said it's best that you do WILDs after atleast 5 hours of sleep, think of normal sleep as you pouring gas into your car and WILD the key starting the car which will take you on an adventure.

One thing I'd like to ask you though is this, what do you expect from the next time you'll be WILDing?
Will it take long, be difficult to stay awake or do you fear you might not fall asleep at all?

Many people see WILD as one of the most difficult induction-category, yet the most rewarding because it gives you direct LDs. Without any experience of meditation like me I'd go for (CAN)DEILD, look it up and study it, it's a type of WILD that can take you from awake to an LD in less than 10 seconds if you practice it for a while.
And most importantly, don't give up! I don't want to sound like a pessimist but the reality is that you'll likely not experience a lot of LDs in the near future as you're still learning. It took me roughly 2 years to get to the point where I'm at now and I'm still not ready. However don't panick, most of those two years I didn't really focus on LDing so I think I only spent 3 months of active training.


Some last things I want to mention:

Get a Dream-journal, I know it might sound boring and/or a lot of work but it's actually fun when you have a DJ here on DreamViews and you can discuss your dreams with people. ( You should atleast be able to remember 3 dreams per night.)



Good luck!

Thanks for the advice, LDMan! The DEILD sounds incredibly useful; I've found that since I've been going to bed earlier I often briefly wake up a few hours before I actually get up (this had never been the case before, and it's only really been happening much over the past couple of weeks) so hopefully once I've finished getting to grips with self-awareness I'll manage to do some dream-chaining.

In answer to your tip, I keep a very regular dream journal; it dates back to the beginning of 2012. It must be about 100,000 words long by now (with no exaggeration :P); maybe I should post some of my zanier dreams from the past on the forum!