Thread: Trouble with WBTB

Hmm, can you give us any details about your WBTB experiences? Do you stay up for too long, or maybe too short of a time? I know that you have to find the exact time necessary for your own body/mind in order to awaken your mind just enough to become conscious in a dream, but not enough so that you can't fall asleep again.

it all depends, you have to find what works for you.

sometimes i wake up, and feel like i have a better shot of WILDing if i don't get up like i planned for WBTB. i just go over the dream i just had thoroughly and do MILD.

other times i only get up long enough to write down the dream, then do MILD

others i'll stay up 45 minutes...all have worked sometimes, and not at all other times. mix it up...

i am curious as to how long you've been staying up for WBTB too. what do you do in the time period you are awake?

What I have been trying is to go to bed at 10:00, then I ussually wake from a dream about 3 or 3:30. I then will get up for 30 or 45 minutes and do visuals about an LD, then back to bed. According to Laberge, he says to get up 30 minutes beforwe normal arise time , which for me would be 5:30. Maybe I should try that as he is the ultimate authority.
For those of you that WILD, is WBTB as critical as it is for doing MILD?

Just wanted to add: Wild's, I don't get out of bed, I just sit there and just try to go asleep again.
I don't do anything else.
yet this gives me instant lucid dream effects. (And I just wake up when I do, so it's at random times )

Cool, I think I will try staying in bed and WILD. When I was small I would visualize myself on a building ledge and falling. I would do this when I went to bed; it was a big rush of exitement. I never knew anything about LDing at the time but I guess I was doing a form of WILD.

Originally posted by mike
Cool, I think I will try staying in bed and WILD. When I was small I would visualize myself on a building ledge and falling. I would do this when I went to bed; it was a big rush of exitement. I never knew anything about LDing at the time but I guess I was doing a form of WILD.

thats funny, i tried this exact method last nite. im going to keep trying this, it seems to help me fall asleep faster i think.

I am fairly new to W.I.L.D. but I find that it helps me to stay up with the lights on for about 30 min before I attempt a W.I.L.D. If I try to lay in bed with the lights off I almost instantly fall asleep. I assume once one gets good enough at WILD they would be able to do them at will.