What's This?

**BeSomebody** · 09-08-2007 03:37 PM

Okay, this morning I woke up, went back to sleep and had a dream in which I became lucid. However, the dream was blurry and faded before I could do anything, I woke up.

I was annoyed and decided not to be cheated out of lucidity. So I (still tired), visualised a riverbank and imagined walking across it, I stayed focused and soon realised that I was no longer being animated across by my minds-eye, and that my movement centers of my brain where hooked up to my dream body. All this took about 30 seconds and I didn't notice the slip.

This happened to be my most vivid LD yet, for once all my senses were engaged, I could feel the wind around me, hear it to along with the gentle trickle of the slow river. I felt the ground under me and smelled the trees. I bend down and dipped my fingers in the river, cold and wet. It was identical to reality, after another vivid dream I had, I never realised that things could get THIS amazing. The last dream was life-like, this WAS life.

Anyway, my point. What is this induction called?

**Redrivertears** · 09-08-2007 03:56 PM

Congratulations.

Actually, it's called a WILD. Wake Induced Lucid Dream. Basically it means you go from waking to lucid dreaming exactly like you did, without ever losing consciousness in the process.

-Redrivertears-

**BeSomebody** · 09-08-2007 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by Redrivertears

Congratulations.

Actually, it's called a WILD. Wake Induced Lucid Dream. Basically it means you go from waking to lucid dreaming exactly like you did, without ever losing consciousness in the process.

-Redrivertears-

I know what a WILD is. I didn't assume it WAS a WILD because:

1) I felt no transition nor sleep paralysis.
2) It took all of 15-30 seconds.

**Redrivertears** · 09-08-2007 05:30 PM

Hey there,

Neither "transition" or "sleep paralysis" are actually part of the WILD though. It's just something people often report experiencing before the WILD itself takes place. Same thing with the speed that it took, many people report that in their experience it takes longer, but again WILD itself is unrelated to how long it takes to get there.

My guess, in your case, is that you were right at the edge of waking and sleeping. Very likely your body was still pretty much in 'half sleep', perhaps it hadn't fully woken up, or perhaps it was simply very tired. By visualising like you did, you turned your attention away from your bodily sensations, and it immediately fell back asleep, allowing your mind to slip back into dreaming.

Perhaps others have more specific names for exactly what kind of WILD this is, there seem to be a few dozen different names flying out there for what is essentially always the same thing

-Redrivertears-

**BeSomebody** · 09-08-2007 05:36 PM

Well thanks, I always pinned myself as an RC person, seeing WILD as too complicated. Now I think I've found a technique that works. I did it twice, you see.

**Redrivertears** · 09-08-2007 05:39 PM

Very nice! I'm still trying to make that work myself, the way you did. Unfortunately I tend to just lose consciousness and start dreaming regularly

-Redrivertears-

**BeSomebody** · 09-08-2007 06:15 PM

Well, I have no idea how I knew it would work but all I did was imagine a place and imagined walking through it. Seconds later -BOOF! The place became physical.

**The Question** · 09-08-2007 06:18 PM

I think this is DEILD thats what it sounds like!?

**BeSomebody** · 09-08-2007 06:27 PM

Nope, I didn't stay still straight after, this was also in the morning around 7 am. My brain pretty much was saying that it had gotten the minimum amount of sleep. I then went back to sleep and re-awoke. After some rolling over and relaxing I visualised the river.

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