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the sensation faded away  And I kept on counting and breathing, and my body was feeling numb... But at about 150, I thought that I was never gonna fall into a dream, and since I had to go up for school the next day (which is today), I kind of turned around and went to sleep.
So, O mighty BillyBob  , what is your advice for tonight? What should I do? Just count longer, or is it the wrong time?[/b]
Did you do a reality check before going back to sleep? sometimes the transitions a sneaky mo-fo and it happens without any side affects whatsoever
also you should have 2-3 hrs of the night your ready to sacrifice on WILD, so once you start WILDing never stop until you either pass out, get into a dream, or your alarm clock goes off 
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Hey BillyBob,
Excellent WILD thread – very complete. I just wanted to add a thought or two.
As you have said, it is crucial to be able to get into a very relaxed state as you count yourself to sleep (after WBTB). The mind tends to wander off in various directions: thoughts pop up, annoying tunes start to play, and daytime worries interfere with the calm state of mind we're trying to achieve. All this is distracting, and makes WILDing harder.
I find that what I have eaten for dinner has quite an influence on how deeply calm I want to be: sugar will tend to make my mind more agitated, and it will therefore be much harder to very calmly focus on the “one, I'm dreaming”, etc. (even if I'm doing this counting seven, eight or more hours after my evening meal). So I try to avoid candy / chocolate / sodas & colas / biscuits, etc. I find that simple food like lentils with green vegetables and herbal tea will allow me to be calmer, and therefore WILD better! (I also try to maximise food containing vitamin B6). Oh, and overeating isn't much good, either!
For anybody who might be interested, I wrote an extensive account of getting into a WILD I had a couple of months ago, in my dream journal. It's the last entry, at the bottom of the page.
http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23874
I hope that the above is helpful!
at one point I was WILDing successfully on a nightly basis (quit because it took so much out of me getting up for 2 hrs a night) and I found the only thing that mattered about what i ate the night before was whether it would give me indigestion or not, (that can REALLY mess up your WILD)
and yes, I did actually do tests to see whether what I ate was affecting my WILDs and you just read the result (keep in mind that I've been doing this for over a year now , I've explored many avenues of what might affect it)
anyway obviously my experiences have been personal (I've only been able to tests things out on myself) but I have read many other WILDers posts on here and I've never heard of the night before's meal affecting their conscious state when WILDing (other than the indigestion I mentioned earlier) What I have found to affect consciousness however, is when one goes to sleep and gets up in the mornings, (thus the reason why I told everyone in the tutorial to have a steady schedule)
Are you sure it wasn't just your sleep times that may have effected it?
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