Thread: Wtf happened (possible WILD)

Possibly. Congrats!
Was this a nap that you just had last night?
If the finger the palm technique doesn't work try something else to check. A Reality test will fail from time to time, this is why you probably want to try more than one reality check here too.

You could try
1. Remain mindful. During your lucid dream remain mindful of the clarity of the dream. Should you feel the dream fading, either visually or in any other sense, move to step 2.

2. Engage with the dream. If you feel as if you are close to waking, especially if the visual sense of the dream is fading, start to engage with the dream with all your senses. Sing, shout, dance, spin, touch the environment, do whatever it takes to stay engaged with the dream scenery. One of the most popular techniques is to spin around within the dream.

3. Continue the dream. If all goes to plan you should find the dream stabilizes around you. However, be careful, often dream stabilization techniques will result in a false awakening—a dream in which you believe you have woken up. Therefore, always remember to perform a reality check whenever you feel you have woken up!
Tips:
Get creative, try to engage with the dream with all your senses. There is no "right way" to do this, so be imaginative, if you can?

Remember that the idea is to involve yourself fully in the dream space. This is in order to avoid your physical senses becoming the more dominant force and pulling you into wakefulness.
-There are reports that rapidly moving your eyes within the dream can help maintain the dream.
-Avoid staying still. Lack of activity within the dream will increase your chances of waking.
=Remember to reality check if you believe you've woken up. Don't be fooled by a false awakening—a dream in which you believe that you have woken up.

Yeah it was a nap. If my finger through palm doesn’t work, I usually check my phone. I understand in WILDs, you enter a dream by like, hypnotizing yourself(?) But I wasn’t even meditating (ADD prevents me from that). I just saw images, started spinning through limbo, and “landed” on my kitchen floor. That’s never happened to me before. Usually my brain is like “screw that, I don’t like this channel” and stops me from entering dreamland.

I hope my dream self can remember what you said about “engaging”. I was surprised that I remembered to take another guy’s advice and jump off my stairs to see what would happen (I floated up through my pillow into sleep paralysis).

Lol I love false awakenings. That’s my usual vessel into a lucid, but lately my technique of getting into a FA hasn’t been working, got lazy about reality checking at random points in the night. I keep going back to sleep | If I use the same technique too many times, does my mind just get too used to it, and that’s why it stops working? Cause I was really on top of it a few nights ago but still didn’t recognize my FA.

(Btw, thanks for all your great answers, I’m learning a lot!)