Thread: Have I reached lucidity? (WILD technique)

My answers,
-Have I reached lucidity during the dream as I feel like I have? I think so.

-I used the WILD technique before going to sleep and not after 5-6 hours of sleep yet it seemed to work even though many say few are able to, am I lucky or willed enough to do so?
-A combination of both, REM wont always occur right before bed, a lot of times it wont, but possibly you can condition yourself for it to happen, but thats above me, I'm not entirely sure if that can happen.

-A rather silly question...do you actually get rest as you would by sleeping during a lucid dream.
-Yes, it's still restorative REM sleep, now if you can lucid dream every night on demand, you may become mentally fatigued, but not many of us can do that. I'm lucky to have 2-3 a week, and I'm fine.

-These WILD dreams lasted almost one hour each, is this linked to the cycles of sleep?
-Yes, I don't know exactly how long the cycles last, but REM cycles are usually 90 minutes or so.

-Can you make such dreams last longer? http://www.web-us.com/lucid/luciddre...Lucid%20Dreams Scroll down a bit and it has a little bit about extending time.

-Can you transition from this awareness in your 'dream' and thoughts to a normal unaware sleep. The kind of sleep one would have without trying to reach lucid dream.
-To actually get some sleep sleep I had to change positions (on my side) and refuse to think about lucid dreaming. Voluntary loss of lucidity? Possibly, but if your not lucid dreaming back to back for extended periods of time, don't worry about not getting quality sleep, I notice feeling more refreshed after lucid dreams, but that may just be me.

-Way of topic: how do you go about talking about lucid dreaming to friends, especially those who have never heard about such things? Or you just don't say anything...
-I try to get as many of my friends into it as possible. I generally just explain it as it is, sometimes they don't believe me, but I've helped a few of my friends to lucidity.

Thanks for the answers!
I've been doing a lot more reading regarding the subject and there is truly an enormous wealth of information on lucid dreaming.

2-3 lucid dreams a week sounds like a good average

Thanks again,
Edeehem

To actually get some sleep sleep I had to change positions (on my side) and refuse to think about lucid dreaming.

i h8 u.

jk.

-Way of topic: how do you go about talking about lucid dreaming to friends, especially those who have never heard about such things? Or you just don't say anything...

its kinda hard to tell someone about lucid dreaming without them think "wierd"
right off the bat, i just told someone about lucid dreaming yesterday and they gave me a funny look but i told them to go to dreamviews.com to really get the picture and today he said he was amazed at LDing and was going to devote himself to it.

I've tried to get frinds interested, but they give up after not having an LD on the first night ot two. Also, how long have you been trying to WILD? You're luck to have an entire LD last about an hour. Are you sure it was really that long?

I've given a few other tries and I seem to getting the technique down to reaching sleep paralysis (I once succumbed to the urge to move and I basically rolled over and fell asleep a few moments later. Seems the change position technique for regular sleep works )

I did have another lucid dream but it was much shorter than before mainly due to the fact I was so mentally exhausted (long day at college) I kinda gave up and let things go and slept)

erik>> I a bit like you friends. I've been trying to WILD on and off over several months. Gave it a few tries a long time ago, no LD's, kinda forgot about it then found the website in my bookmarks. Gave it another try but didn't get anywhere. Seems my third serious attempt was the right one It was probably due to me buying a dream journal to actually force me to record things into it My LD's didnt last an hour, the whole period of the experience described above lasted an hour. That includes the lying down and reaching the sleep paralysis stage, which can take quite a while. I don't have a way to measure each stage as that would mean moving to look at my clock . I can't tell you how much time I felt my dreams took as I was actually rewinding and jumping from different place to place in time
So basically, this is how it went
10h30pm: lie down on the bed
???? beginning to feel sleep paralysis
???? enters sleep paralysis stage and starts seing dream imagery
???? enters the dream and has fun
11h30pm: I wake up rather abruptly, went to the bathroom and got back into bed at 11h35ish or something like that
Repeat process til 0h30

I did manage to bring the subject with two friends of mine today though. Quite interesting. One of my friend was talking about some new medical progress that allowed you to get the healing effect of sleep while staying awake (havn't looked at this but I'm skeptical of the truth in this statement) and how it would be great for studying finals
Well that's when I changed subject and brought lucid dreaming into the conversation. The one talking before had heard a little bit about it but never gave it much though but another one told me he had one a few days ago, in a spontaneous manner. Doesn't know how and when it happens (natural I guess ) but it seems its quite random and happens only once in a while for him. But he was quite interested in learning more about having them willingly as he knows how incredible the experience is.