WILD: I suck at it

Last night, when I was in bed, I closed my eyes and focused on one thought: "I will remember I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming" over and over and over again. I watched the light behind my eyelids as I went. If my attention wandered, I returned it back to remembering to remember I'm dreaming.

And I succeeded... at keeping myself awake, and nothing else.

I was about to fall asleep once, but I snapped myself back awake - really awake. My heart was beating very fast, and I couldn't get back to sleep. That always happens... if pull myself out of unconsciousness like that, I'm absolutely wide awake afterwards, no matter how sleepy I was before. So, I can't turn around and try again. That's happened many, many times to me, but I've never seen anything written about that kind of experience.

What am I doing wrong here? I've tried counting, but if I stuck with that I'd probably get to a thousand before I fell asleep.

yeah, the same thing happens to me. somebody put some advice here

I was going to bump this thing, glad you saved me the trouble and made me look that much less desperate. :D

haha no problem. anybody who reads this should help us out

WILD seems crap to me..MILD works much better for me..and performing reality checks all day..and meditation..and of course..being obsessed with becoming lucid at the end of the day

Cannot help you with WILD since I cannot even do that myself.
Reality checks are about the only thing that works for me. I've only had a couple of successes with MILD.

I think the key to wild is to sleep before you do it...for example I will set my alarm for 4:30 and when I wake up I'll be dead tired..so I start counting to myself...1 Im dreaming 2 Im dreaming in my head..this usually doesnt work except it seems to help for the next part. I then imagine a simple action that either I am doing or someone else, it doesnt seem to matter..for example I will imagine my first Tae kwon do form or a very cool goal in soccer...over and over and over in my mind...all this time I am breathing deeply and trying to focus on that image. Then right before I fall asleep thinking about that think I loose it and think, shoot, Ive gotta regain that thought and suddenly I am entering a WILD..I feel a falling sensation and then a kind of disorientation and then thats it, im dreaming and I know completely from the very second it starts that I'm dreaming..no need to rely on reality checks..which i always forget to do.

WILD does work. Today I had three WILD dreams. Woke up around 5AM, went back to sleep by imagining I was walking around a very familiar environment, watching and feeling things with my hands, since tactual imagery is quite powerful. After a couple of minutes I was no longer imagining it, but continued as a dream, and I was of course, lucid. You then need to stabilize the dream as it is not super-crisp.

Follow that and see yourself becoming lucid.

I've gotten as far as the falling sensation, but either the falling sensation wikes me up, or I fall into a non-lucid dream

Maybe you can pretend you are skydiving to generate the sensation, and then you won't want to "fall sleep" anf hit the ground!

i fully know wot u mean about the Really awake part
its almost like you snap into awakeness
i think its all just to do with your levels of sleepiness
try doing it when your more tired

i know what you mean, i hate being "really awake" i especially hate it when you can feel it coming

I wonder what that "really awake" feeling is? I swear, I've never read anything about that anywhere. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one.

It makes my heart beat so hard it's distracting to feel it up against the bed. I can't relax like that, let alone get any sleep.

I tried WILD today(i usually use MILD) and I woke up in the middle of the night as I always do and then after 20 minutes of journal entry I went to try WILD. I pictured myself in a park in the summer like walking around touching things,birds flying around.After a while I tought I heared birds in my room,but I think this was the begin of a WILD,but I think I fell alseep cuz I kinda lost consious and it didnt work,I should ve remained consious

I've had a similar problem with WILD.. if I attempt it after 5-6 hours of sleep, I have trouble falling back asleep again.. with 3-4 hours of sleep, I lose consciousness too easily. My body seems to either be "too sleepy" or "too awake" with no happy medium..

yeah me too. i have that exact same problem

For me when I wake up at like 4 or 5 I fall asleep way to fast. Im to tired/lazy to even get up at that time.

well, what works for me is taking a nap (3 hours?) in the evening, before i have dinner and stuff...then after staying awake for a while i go back to sleep again...because i cant possibly wake up at 4 in the morning. i don't try to wild or anything (i cant maintain my concentration and all), but i occasionally slip into a lucid dream. :roll:

let me get this straight.. You need to be awake yet fall asleep to get a wild? Bizzare...

Have any of you checked out what starman wrote in the newbie forum?
I'm gonna give it a shot tonight.

The "Really" awake feeling.... aah I know it well.
Whenever I have a bit trouble to fall asleep (when I did not know about Lucid Dreaming or forgot about it) I imagined myself sinking trough my bed and falling. Often that did not work, It felt like my mind was made out of bricks (whenever I think of it, I associate bricks with it...) and couldnt sink trough it... It felt heavy, bulky, unable to push it trough...
Is this the same feeling you guys get?

You people are so interesting to watch. I cannot WILD or MILD. And really I don't see the point. My boyfriend tried explaining that there are different types of LD's involved but really I am happy with the way my LD's are and I am sticking to them.