WILD?

[DreamWolfHorse]

Okay, so I do this thing on a constant basis called forum roleplaying. It's pretty much interactive storytelling and make believe between two or more people. Often times I'll start musing over various replies when I fall asleep to reply with in the coming morning. Sometimes though, I think about them so much that I can actually see it happening ablite somewhat fuzzy. Would this be a Wake Induced?

[vasiona]

It's hard to tell from such a brief description so I may have misunderstood, but that doesn't sound like WILD. WILD stands for Wake-Induced Lucid dream: it's when you enter a dream while fully aware that you're dreaming from the start. You find yourself fully in the dream, as though it is your reality, but know that you're actually sleeping. It's a 3D experience, not just a 2D image or faint movie-scene which you're not actually a part of (although those can sometimes come up within the dream, or lead up to it.) What you described sounds more like hypnagogic imagery, which are the images or brief "movies" you might see while falling asleep. When do you see these? If it's partway through your sleep cycle, after a brief awakening, you might be on your way to WILD, but if it's first thing at night it's most likely to stay as imagery (the intense dreaming doesn't happen until later in the night, hence why most only try to WILD after they've already slept for a few hours.)

[ThreeCat]

It sounds like hypnagogic imagery (HI) and perhaps the beginning of a dream. But probably not a lucid dream proper. If you are able to maintain awareness until you've entered a solid, (relatively) stable dream, then you would call it a WILD.

[Sageous]

Just for the record: WILD stands for Wake-Induced Lucid dream WILD actually stands for Wake Initiated Lucid Dream. It describes the transition from wake to dream, in this case moving from wake to sleep to dream without losing waking-life self-awareness. Though you might employ techniques to induce a WILD (i.e., SSILD or WBTB), the WILD itself is not a technique, but the result of techniques. Same goes for DILD, or Dream Initiated Lucid Dream, which is also not a technique but a description of the transition from wake to NLD to LD. This is not about semantics, BTW; I think the difference is important, and if people were able to stop thinking of WILD and DILD as techniques, they might better understand how to achieve them, and know that they have achieved them. Sorry to seem a bit persnickety here, but trying to restore the definitions of these transitions to their original state from what they have become has been a sort of quest of mine lately... P.S.: I forgot to mention, DreamWolfHorse, that you did seem to "just" experience a bit of HI, and not a WILD... next time...