Nice summary adraw, now in answer to your questions :


  1. We cannot really 'say' the level of awakeness, we should first figure out (going back to the original goal) what causes us to fall asleep, then we can put them in categories.


  1. I think a WILD attempt that makes you more awake than sleepy is caused by your REM cycles, WILD's seem to only work (for most people) after about the fourth REM period. So if you try to WILD before then (it will be different considering the people) your brain will be almost saying "Oh my god, why did you wake me up, I have been resting". But after the 3rd or 4th REM period it's like "Oh well I have had enough sleep but I might aswell stay shut down and do what they say!"


  1. To answer number three I think anyone who actaully wants to initiate WILD should read Clairity's WILD Technique! http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=37749

And as adraw said, any other questions and we (well atleast I) will ahppily answer them to the best of my knowledge.

Peace, Yoshu!