This is a common problem for myself, it is hard to strike that balance between wakefulness and relaxation which is ideal for WILD induction. The problem with trying to WILD too soon after waking up is that one tends to be foggy and unfocused, which inclines the person to slip into the inertia of normal sleep. Of course the other side of the spectrum, over excitation, is bad because it becomes very difficult to get back to sleep, or the person becomes inclined to more immediate sensory gratifications like video games or television.
What I can say is that this is a problem created by the brains natural tendency to equalise itself in one pattern (attractor) or another, it is nearly impossible to stay in-between states for any amount of time, and thus to my great irritation in the morning the mind will unavoidably incline toward either full waking or unconscious sleeping, which are the enemies of the lucid dream state, unless there is conscious intervention. The waking state, the dreaming state, the deep sleep state can all be visualised as competing points of attraction or gravity, the brain is always being inclined toward one or another, and the closer it is to whichever point, the more likely it is that it will fall into its 'basin' or point of greatest stability. The waking, dreaming, and deep sleep basin points are unfortunately for lucid dreamers quite fare apart and thus antithetical, the presence of one metabolic state tends to exclude the other.
I think the best jumping off point is the meditative state, which can be reached by the waking mind, but which is more cooperative and less antithetical in its chemical make-up or constitution in reference to lucid dreaming. I would place its centre somewhere above and in the middle of the waking and dreaming basin points, their relation to each other looking like a Scalene triangle, the meditative state being closer to each state than they are to each other. For brevity I will simply say that their distance from each other in this graph is dictated by similarities or overlappings in their phsyiological, chemical, and/or electric configuration. The more similar (in constitution) and/or the greater the potential for nondisruptive synthesis, the closer are they represented to each other in my graph.
Basically, what I am saying is that it is much easier to go from waking state, (any where along the waking spectrum) to the meditative state, to the lucid dream state, than from any point on the waking spectrum to the lucid dream state. This framework is justified by my personal experience. The ease of movement from the meditative, to the lucid dream state is a result of their association with identical, reconcilable, or at least non-contradictory neural patterns. So the 'space' between the meditative and lucid dream basins are relatively close, and thus easily traversed. By generating a meditative state right after waking, as opposed to letting oneself be carried by 'neural gravity' into one of the extremes of self-reinforcing wakefulness or the mire of normal sleep, one can avoid falling into the two extremes (excitation and inactivity) which leads to the absence of the lucid dream state.
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