Thread: Adam's WILD Technique!

I'll be trying this tonight.

I have trouble WILDing because I can't keep my eyes closed. It seems like they are trying to force themselves open.

Originally Posted by Axel

For me, it seems as though as I get closest to WILDing before a WBTB. But i'll try anyway. I was gonna try because I woke up at like 4:00 and decided not to try because I have to go to the dentist at 10:00.

Cool, let me know how you get on.

Originally Posted by ArtfulBodger

Well.... Fate was unkind last night.

Didn't get to try the technique sadly. I went to bed at 10:30 pm, planning to wake via my alarm at 4:00am or via having myself automatically awake after any dreams (I'm apparently very good at that.) ... ...... Woke up at 12 am. The wind outside was insanely noisey and it was incredibly hot. I opened up the window in the bathroom expecting it to cool things down, but did it? No, it made whoosh noises from the wind in the alley. I layed there thinking i was about to get to sleep and my brother stumbles through the front door at 1 am. Still i lay there, now feeling incredibly hungry. At 1:30 i realise im not gonna get to sleep in these conditions, so i take my sleeping bag downstairs and my bed cover to lay on. I can't drag my matress downstairs so the Cover will have to do. Once I get downstairs and try to sleep I still feel an incredible hunger, so around 1:45 I get some water and a Chicken Tikka Sandwich ( ) and 'Nosh' for a while. Then, after settling down for one last try before I nearly decide to stay awake all night, I realise that if i Sleep in the living room, i can hear the Rain on the conservatory window, and the wind from the chimeny. And the fridge. And the clock. And the fusebox under the stairs. And the crickets my brother feeds his lizards. I didnt get to sleep till around 3:30. I woke for college at 6.

I THINK at some point between 10:30 and 12 i had a dream, but i forget everything about it. And i remember forgetting it when i woke up at 12.
...
Last night sucked.

Oh no! Sounds like you had a right nightmare trying last night! Good luck if you try again

Originally Posted by aceboy

great tutorial! i've always been wondering were yours was. (ive seen clairity's ,seekers, billybob) you pretty much explained everything, i thought i had some questions for you but i reread it and found them. ill tell you if i get any results.

Thanks I have never really posted this. I did have another rechnique but this one works so much better because you don't have to focus on HI like so many other techniques. So good for those people who get more physical sensations than visual.

Good luck and let me know how you get on

Originally Posted by Terrorhawker

I'll be trying this tonight.

I have trouble WILDing because I can't keep my eyes closed. It seems like they are trying to force themselves open.

It sounds to me like you are trying to focus on something and by doing so your eyes wanting to open. I would try relaxing them first. Are you trying this in the dark? Also if you are trying to focus on something more than likely it is as if you are looking up, I think a lot of people naturally look up with their eyes closed. This sometimes means we are struggling to keep our eyes fully shut.

I would try looking down, if you have to look somewhere, this should make it easier to keep your eyelids fully closed. However I don't think it is too much of a problem having a little gap at the bottom of your eyelids, providing you are in a dark room with nothing to distract you.

Hope this makes sense? If you need anymore info/help let me know

Adam.

Great write up, Adam. I like how you brought attention to the fact that you actually have to fall asleep during a WILD. Lots of tutorials I've read forget this or take it for granted and confuse people into staying awake for hours.

I've had lots of success with tactile sensations also. I don't sleep on my back, so I will stay on my side and imagine I'm swinging back and forth like a hammock or bouncing up and down on the mattress. I like the repetition/ rhythm.

I'm going to try this tonight.

as clairity said earlier. it would be nice to WILD without WTBT, which is able to do if you're very tired.
Nice guide to. It said quite much the same as i read before, but it was some new and usefull stuff. Thx m8.

For the second time i have been so unbelieveably close to WILDing.

I keep blacking out during some point between the sinking feeling and weird noises, to the actual lucid dream.

It seems im lying there, having weird SP sensations, and then i know that i lost conciousness for a while, but as soon as my dream starts, i know its a dream.

I had a great lucid last night, but i guess this only counts as a DILD, so ill keep trying =]

I tried this last night. My girlfriend was sick and being very noisy, so I only did a short WBTB so I would not have problems falling back to sleep while she coughed and snorted.

I underestimated, and ended up just falling asleep. Good news is, I had a freaky hot orgy dream followed by a false awakening that turned into a badass lucid.

Here's the lucid dream:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=53762

I'll try again tonight. I'm sure my optimism about this technique was what triggered the lucid.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Great write up, Adam. I like how you brought attention to the fact that you actually have to fall asleep during a WILD. Lots of tutorials I've read forget this or take it for granted and confuse people into staying awake for hours.

I've had lots of success with tactile sensations also. I don't sleep on my back, so I will stay on my side and imagine I'm swinging back and forth like a hammock or bouncing up and down on the mattress. I like the repetition/ rhythm.

I'm going to try this tonight.

Excellent, let me know how you get on

Originally Posted by Terrorhawker

When i'm doing it i'm afraid that if I move my eyes, swallow saliva or ANYTHING that it'll ruin my chances of SP.

Also, i'm kinda scared of SP. I had the intent of doing it last night but when thinking about it I decided to turn my alarm off cause I got freaked out. The other day I woke up with a jolt and there was this little girl sitting on my bed. Scared the shite outta me.

Okay don't worry about swallowing etc, thinking about not doing that is just going to put you off, and it is important you are comfortable and relaxed, and you cant be if you need to swallow, or if you move etc, just be comfortable, that's the main thing with this technique okay

I'm not going to lie to you, these sensations get pretty crazy! You don't really experience any SP as such, but you do get some really weird movements and drops etc. Give it a go, if it gets too intense you can always stop. The good thing about this technique is you can usually control the sensations, so can do this to something which is more comfortable for you

Originally Posted by psychology student

I tried this technique, it worked. I stayed lucid for like three seconds, then I got caught by a False Awakening. But its a good technique, because thats nearly my first WILD.

Awesome news!! Well done Let me know how you get on if you try again. I have found sometimes I loose lucidity when doing this, but I just switch back to the sensations again and start over, it's pretty easy when you get used to it. It's important to learn to control everything

Let me know if you need any more hints etc.

Originally Posted by adraw

Hi adam. Really nice tutorial. I made some tryes in my past with wild, but wasnt succesfull, so I decided to give it a little time and rest for a while from LD. Now, as i read this tutorial, I will give it a try. It seems, that REM phase is a catalyst for any sensations {visual, auditory or tactile}, so it shouldnt be a problem.

As I readed your tutorial, it reminded me , how people invoke astral projection by falling out of their bodies. It seems, that the important aspect about WILD is to concentrate more on mind body, then on physical body, which is easier when entering REM. Maybe the problem spot could be to move into REM state aware, where mantaining an illusion of movement goes from itself. So I guess. First I should learn, how it feels like to approach REM phase, withouth falling asleep. And then, when I feel i am entering REM, i should start this movement visualisation using the momentum approaching REM gives me.

It seems, that:

REM + Effort > Effort

Good luck I hope it works for you, it should do! If you have any questions let me know.

Originally Posted by Xallie

as clairity said earlier. it would be nice to WILD without WTBT, which is able to do if you're very tired.
Nice guide to. It said quite much the same as i read before, but it was some new and usefull stuff. Thx m8.

No problem, yeah getting really tired before and doing this works well

Originally Posted by Dizko

For the second time i have been so unbelieveably close to WILDing.

I keep blacking out during some point between the sinking feeling and weird noises, to the actual lucid dream.

It seems im lying there, having weird SP sensations, and then i know that i lost conciousness for a while, but as soon as my dream starts, i know its a dream.

I had a great lucid last night, but i guess this only counts as a DILD, so ill keep trying =]

So close! Sounds like you were almost there

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I tried this last night. My girlfriend was sick and being very noisy, so I only did a short WBTB so I would not have problems falling back to sleep while she coughed and snorted.

I underestimated, and ended up just falling asleep. Good news is, I had a freaky hot orgy dream followed by a false awakening that turned into a badass lucid.

Here's the lucid dream:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=53762

I'll try again tonight. I'm sure my optimism about this technique was what triggered the lucid.

Awesome!!!

It's so weird that I stumbled upon this technique because just the other night I was doing almost exactly what you described - more or less by accident though. I was just very tired, but I wanted to have a lucid dream and I mused about how cool it would be to just sink through my bed and right into an LD. The more I concentrated on that, the more I felt that it was actually happening! I fell asleep before I got too far though. Phooey. With this technique all nicely written up though, I just have to give it another shot tonight.


Thanks a lot!

I just thought of a question after I read one of your replies, Adam.

Once my body feels heavy and numb, I can induce some physical sensations pretty easily. I feel like I'm being swung on the horizontal, or rolling around. They feel rather strong (maybe not as strong as you describe) and I'm not in SP. How far along does that mean I am? Should I try entering a dream then?

Just wanted to say, this guide is extremely well written! I can't wait to try this out. I'll post back any success/questions. Thanks for sharing!

I tried this again last night, Adam. Great success!

I was on my back imagining my body falling backwards, and that my bedsheets were like a parachute that the wind was pressing against me as I fell. Like I was falling through space while wrapped in a bedsheet.

I hit sleep paralysis and started feeling my body humming and vibrating like mad. My girlfriend kept kicking me, so I kept popping out of SP. Once I was in, it was pretty easy to return, so after about an hour of trying not to get mad at the lady, I finally hit a great bout of SP.

I decided it was time to finally enter a dream, so I started imagining the feeling of floating upwards. I was trying to make it as vivid as possible, and next think I knew, I slammed against my ceiling. I reached out my hands and felt the texture of the ceiling for a minute or two to make sure I was 100% locked in the dream, then I opened my eyes. I then started climbing around on the ceiling like spiderman.

This whole time, I was listening to a man and a woman discussing Tax Law. They were talking about the alternative minimum tax and how it didn't allow for the deduction of wholesale grocery purchases at your farmer's market.

I was crawling on the ceiling trying to figure out what the hell they were talking about. As I turned the corner to climb down my bedroom wall, I felt a huge gust of wind, and looked down to find myself outside, on the side of a tall building above an outdoor farmers market. The two people talking were walking along the street far below me.

what's the point of a WILD? just to achieve a lucid dream while you're awake? is it more intense than if you're sleeping on a regular basis or what?

Originally Posted by maxihaus

what's the point of a WILD? just to achieve a lucid dream while you're awake? is it more intense than if you're sleeping on a regular basis or what?

its not that you achieve a LD while you're awake ..... it occurs when you go from a normal waking state directly into a dream state with no apparent lapse in consciousness...

Originally Posted by maxihaus

what's the point of a WILD? just to achieve a lucid dream while you're awake? is it more intense than if you're sleeping on a regular basis or what?

|My take on this would be that the WILD is more of an controlled initiation into a lucid dream. So you take the DILD for example, whilst there are certain methods to improve your chances of a DILD, it is not very controlled, experiences are often sporadic and you don't have the same degree of control in terms of frequency of lucid dreams.

With the WILD technique you are basically going from wake to sleep (and lucid dream) instantly, as opposed to already sleeping, then relying on your critical faculty or dream awareness to spot irregularities to realise you are dreaming. The WILD technique is used to control the transition into a lucid dream.

So the way I see it:

DILD = Sleep > Lucid Dream
WILD = Awake > Lucid Dream

With both techniques you are still sleeping when you have the lucid dream, but WILD is more controlled, and it's mastering the transition from wake to sleep which is key to achieving this. Once you can control your awareness and maintain a level of consciousness when going to sleep, you can successfully WILD and enter lucid dreams almost at will.

As for the intensity, I find the lucid experiences are usually the same, however the intensity of entering a lucid dream is far different when you WILD - you experience HI/SI or as per this technique very powerful tactile sensations. When you DILD it is more a transition from normal dream to lucid dream and a fairly smooth one at that, the transition when you WILD, and quite synonymous with the name, can be quite a ride!

Hope this explains it a little better?

Adam.

I tried this but when my alarm went off I just switched it off and went straight back to sleep :\ Should I try moving my alarm further away from my bed, and put a piece of paper on it saying "WILD" so I wake up properly and don't do the same again?

edit - moved the alarm to the other side of my room, and taped a piece of paper saying "WILD" to it. also printed off the instructions to the technique and put them nearby.

Good luck

Hey,
Great technique..
Last night I kept slipping into Lucidness and out again.
I knew I was going Lucid but then I came out right before I did then that happened about 9 times lasting about 2 seconds each.

Anyway couldn't remember anything else about last night so i'll try again tonight..
Haah thanks

Awesome good work

Hey Adam, nice technique! I have one question however:

Have you ever tried/had success doing this method without doing a WBTB?


Thanks

Adam: Thanks for the tutorial, I found it very informative. One question if I may? Can you use pain, or discomfort, as the sensations you work with to get to WILD, or does the sensations have to be more comfortable? Do you imagine the sensations, or wait for them to appear on their own? Thanks for the feedback. Best sea bee, (a sailor forever)

WOW sorry for the late replies guys - my work Laptop is being monitored since they found 144 viruses on there so can't get on during the day at the moment lol.

Will try answer best all your questions below

Originally Posted by Axel

Ok Adam one more question lol,

When I was trying this 2 nights ago I got all the sensations and then all of a sudden my eyes wouldn't stop twitching! They kept twitching real bad. But like while they were twitching I could see like white dots all over my vision. It was like that when my eyes were open too. Any ideas to why this was like this? (the twitching and the dots)

Seems like you were experiencing HI See original post for link to explanation of this). To be honest I never experience this when I WILD - I developed this technique for this very reason, because I couldn't get to HI when I tried to WILD so needed to reach lucidity another way. Was the twiching so bad it had an adverse affect on your efforts?

Originally Posted by Riot Maker

Worked for me last night.

I just basicly followed the procedure and after about 10 minutes of intense sensations, i just had that feeling that i could roll out of my bed, and i did.

thanks adam, great tutorial btw.

Awesome! So glad it worked for you! How dramatic were the sensations for you? What did you feel? Falling, swinging etc?

Originally Posted by kaeraz

It's so weird that I stumbled upon this technique because just the other night I was doing almost exactly what you described - more or less by accident though. I was just very tired, but I wanted to have a lucid dream and I mused about how cool it would be to just sink through my bed and right into an LD. The more I concentrated on that, the more I felt that it was actually happening! I fell asleep before I got too far though. Phooey. With this technique all nicely written up though, I just have to give it another shot tonight.


Thanks a lot!

Hey thanks for the message and good luck! Let me know how you get on

Originally Posted by Sean999

I just thought of a question after I read one of your replies, Adam.

Once my body feels heavy and numb, I can induce some physical sensations pretty easily. I feel like I'm being swung on the horizontal, or rolling around. They feel rather strong (maybe not as strong as you describe) and I'm not in SP. How far along does that mean I am? Should I try entering a dream then?

Seems you are pretty much there. When you get these strong feelings it is important not to concentrate on your physical body, but your dream body, and go with all the sensations, the swinging like you describe! Its hard to recognise the transition but you get to a point where they are strong enough to force yourself into a dream. I will try this tonight and post my experiences in here, and would encourage others too do so also.

The best way to do this is to just practice and if you try to get into the dream too early, just go back to the sensations and wait for them to get stronger and try again, you will soon get the right balance

Originally Posted by cougarelite

Just wanted to say, this guide is extremely well written! I can't wait to try this out. I'll post back any success/questions. Thanks for sharing!

No problem, good luck. If you have any questions feel free to ask

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I tried this again last night, Adam. Great success!

I was on my back imagining my body falling backwards, and that my bedsheets were like a parachute that the wind was pressing against me as I fell. Like I was falling through space while wrapped in a bedsheet.

I hit sleep paralysis and started feeling my body humming and vibrating like mad. My girlfriend kept kicking me, so I kept popping out of SP. Once I was in, it was pretty easy to return, so after about an hour of trying not to get mad at the lady, I finally hit a great bout of SP.

I decided it was time to finally enter a dream, so I started imagining the feeling of floating upwards. I was trying to make it as vivid as possible, and next think I knew, I slammed against my ceiling. I reached out my hands and felt the texture of the ceiling for a minute or two to make sure I was 100% locked in the dream, then I opened my eyes. I then started climbing around on the ceiling like spiderman.

This whole time, I was listening to a man and a woman discussing Tax Law. They were talking about the alternative minimum tax and how it didn't allow for the deduction of wholesale grocery purchases at your farmer's market.

I was crawling on the ceiling trying to figure out what the hell they were talking about. As I turned the corner to climb down my bedroom wall, I felt a huge gust of wind, and looked down to find myself outside, on the side of a tall building above an outdoor farmers market. The two people talking were walking along the street far below me.

That's an awesome experience, please if you have any more can you post them here, I think I am going to collect these for people to read to see how the transitions work for different people as this seems like a common question so far.

Originally Posted by sea bee

Adam: Thanks for the tutorial, I found it very informative. One question if I may? Can you use pain, or discomfort, as the sensations you work with to get to WILD, or does the sensations have to be more comfortable? Do you imagine the sensations, or wait for them to appear on their own? Thanks for the feedback. Best sea bee, (a sailor forever)

I don't know about pain but sometimes it feels like my body is moving in ways which are not physically possible. For example my back bending in a way which couldn't physically be done. If you are close to lucidity this shouldn't hurt, as we know you don't really feel pain in lucid dreams.

Adam.

Originally Posted by Adam

Awesome! So glad it worked for you! How dramatic were the sensations for you? What did you feel? Falling, swinging etc?

It was the train feeling like you mentioned earlier to me. It felt like was going through a tunnel on a speeding train then it seemed like i fell off the tracks and landed on my bed, thats when i rolled out.

I love this technique because it caters to the sensations rather than the HI or HS, awsome job man, thanks for everything.

Ohh and ps, had another WILD earlier this morning, i hate to get cocky but it's getting easier for me.

Now on to improving dream control, this should be fun ahaha.

Don't worry at all about being cocky! The reason for this technique is because when you can master inducing these sensations, then becoming lucid is easy!

Glad it is working out for you, now let me have some of that lucid fun

hey Adam,

when u talked about the noises/distractions, does that include pattern noises (ex: air conditioner, washing machine .....) cause for some reason i tend to be less distracted when there's a noise pattern in the background ....

cheers,

wa'el

Originally Posted by adraw

May I have one more questin. And that question would be a little more difficult to answer. First let me describe my state. I lie in my bed. And do some relaxation techniques. My body can feel numb and i am loosing my sensations. And now. What should I do. How can I concentrate on feelings I never experienced before.

Actually. What was your learning process? You said, that mastering inducing this sensations is the key, but i cannot find out the process how you do it from start. It could help, if you described this process of induction in more detail. Maybe use some more words or images to describe this. You might start just from beginning, when you feel your body. then you perform relaxation.... And then .... You do induce these sensations. When do you start to induce them and how does the process feel like. {so I am actually asking you to slow down the process and tell me, whats are the sensations from the beginning.}

So in conclusion:

• Before you began doing these induction exercises, what was your induction potential? {so we know, where you started learning}
• What was the process of your learning, what were the difficulties, and what made you improve your tactile visualisation? {so we know your learning process, and so we can adjust it to fit our needs}

And maybe that would be enough for now. You know why I am asking this. Every technique can be only hardly adapted, when we dont know the background information.

Thanx in advance and also thanx for one of the best tutorials I readed so far.

Okay I will do my best to answer this, if you need more information please ask:

Before you began doing these induction exercises, what was your induction potential?

OKay to start with I had tried and successfully achieved a normal WILD - this is where you remain still, drift off into the dream automatically but I found it very hard to maintain any real focus due to the lack ho HI experienced and my concentration levels.

So by chance I stumbled across inducing lucid dreams through physical sensations. One night I had woken up in the night needing the toilet, when I got back to bed I felt strange sensations, like I was sliding backwards, and didn't know why it was happening, but I went with it to see where they would take me, and by chance entered a lucid dream, so this really is how I came across it, because I had this natural ability to induce these sensations. Some people find it easy to experience HI, others find it easier to induce these sensations, I guess for me my potential was high because I found it easy, but for others this will differ.
What was the process of your learning, what were the difficulties, and what made you improve your tactile visualisation?

The process of my learning was fairly straight forward. Having mistakenly stumbled across this technique I began to try induce the sensations myself, rather than waiting for them to happen myself as had done previously. I learnt that one key thing which helped was when lying still and with my eyes shut it was like I was focussing on my eyelids. But soon I tried looking beyond them, and my vision would change to seem like I was focussing further and further away from them. I used this then to feel like it was me moving away from this rather than my sight looking further ahead if that makes sense? So when I am looking into my eyelids, I visualise my back sinking into the bed, and at the same time my vision would look beyond my eyelids further convincing myself I was sinking further and further into my bed. And from here once you get these sensations they pretty much take over.

Some difficulties were my breathing. I found sometimes that if I was breathing too deeply my breathing in would counteract the sensations of me sinking. Because your stomach/check moves outwards when you inhale, so this counteracted my sensations I was trying to induce. So then I would lye still in my bed, waiting till I was tired and ready to sleep and my breathing had slowed right down, then I would be ready to try. Once I had realised this, then it was a matter of using my vision it help induce the sinking sensations, which doesn't always happen at first, but after a while you begin to feel it. Something which helped was digging my back into my bed and holding it there for 30/60 seconds, and then you relax, this gives the opposite feeling that it is in fact your legs sinking, which helped a lot.

I don't think anything made me improve really, it was all about learning ways in which I could induce these sensations, so using my vision and pushing my back into the bed to kick start the feelings, but different people may find other ways to kick start them, and if anyone does find another way I would love to hear about them!

Hope this is a little clearer, I will update my technique to include more of this information, as never really thought about it in as much detail as I have explained here.

Originally Posted by wa'el

hey Adam,

when u talked about the noises/distractions, does that include pattern noises (ex: air conditioner, washing machine .....) cause for some reason i tend to be less distracted when there's a noise pattern in the background ....

cheers,

wa'el

I think a constant background noise can help, but sudden changes to sounds I think might interfere. So I would perhaps see if you could put on some form of relaxation CD on repeat or something if you think a background noise would help.

I personally leave my PC on and the constant noise it makes often helps me.

Adam.