Thread: Adam's WILD Technique!

Nice tutorial.
I'll try this tonight.

i find it hard to feel the sensation of my body moving, i end up just visualising it, is it right to visualise it? or do you have to go by the sensations you feel?

Initially you have to visualise it, then after you get the tactile sensations

Tried this technique last night, and it was the closest I've gotten to an LD. I got to some fairly strong vibrations, then a possum fight outside my window awoke me. I'll try again tonight.

P.S. I'm loving your avatar.

Thanks lol.

Good luck again tonight

Ok I tried this for my first time today during an afternoon nap. I focused on my back sinking into my bed, and within minutes I felt like I was spinning out of control . After about a minute the sensations just stopped and I felt like I was just lying still in my bed again. I tried to get the sensations back, but failed. It seemed so easy the first time. This might be a dumb question, but could you maybe explain a little bit more on how you visualize yourself sinking into your bed?

man, when i wild. i just think about anything at all. then, when my body feels its time, it will shake like crazy for about 3 seconds, then i dont even have time to think and im all of a sudden in a dream. i dont think WILDs need to be so complicated. just lay absolutely still

Originally Posted by burton_bean

Ok I tried this for my first time today during an afternoon nap. I focused on my back sinking into my bed, and within minutes I felt like I was spinning out of control . After about a minute the sensations just stopped and I felt like I was just lying still in my bed again. I tried to get the sensations back, but failed. It seemed so easy the first time. This might be a dumb question, but could you maybe explain a little bit more on how you visualize yourself sinking into your bed?

I don't know if I can really explain it any further. It kind of just happens. I try to focus on my eyelids and then push the focus beyond them, and use this to stimulate the sensations of felling like I am sinking

Originally Posted by LittleBuddy

man, when i wild. i just think about anything at all. then, when my body feels its time, it will shake like crazy for about 3 seconds, then i dont even have time to think and im all of a sudden in a dream. i dont think WILDs need to be so complicated. just lay absolutely still

There is nothing complicated about WILDs - This technique for one is not complicated. Not everyone can just lye there and get straight into a lucid dream. Most just fall to sleep, hence the need for techniques like this to help.

Hey adam, I had a quick question...for weeks I've been trying this technique...

now, I can fall asleep after wbtb without trouble (just not lucid at this stage!). But something I always wonder is....

These sensations...am I feeling them on my real body...or do I kind of put myself in another body?

i.e...i can still feel my sheets usually...so do I acknowledge that feeling and keep "sinking".....or do I pretend Im in a different body with no sheets?

because when I try other tactile things...like spinning in my bed....I find sometimes im watching myself from 3rd person...as opposed to being in my real body...even though I still may be getting the same tactile feelings

have I explained this adequately? any tips?

Yeha that makes sense what you have said.

I would say when I experience the sensations I am half asleep already, I usually don't notice the sheets there or anything else, and it feels like it is my real body, although I know it is all in my head.

Does that help or need me to explain more?

mmm, so you dont imagine yourself in a new body in a different place.

you just try to induce these sensations on your real body?

I've tried this twice.

1st time I was under the effect of a very small amount of thc. However, I did not do a WBTB so I wasn't expecting LD entry, it was just kinda "practice". Now that I think of it, this is actually just like malacs breathing high induced technique, except with thc instead of the high you get from hyperventilating. Well it worked. Upon laying down I was immediately aware of my body. I ran through my blue meditation technique in seconds(usually takes like 10 mins) and was fully relaxed. I achieved getting into sleep paralysis and the sensations easily and they came quick as I was able to fully relax quick as well. No Ld entry though, not the right REM stage. Closest I've ever been though. Btw the thc only made it easier, I can get the same sensations without it, it just takes more time/practice/concentration.

2nd time was this morning, aiming for WBTB time of 5 hours. I went to bed late and woke up randomly(I still had about an hour an half on the meditation timer). Tried to recall, no luck(I believe I didn't remain still/keep my eyes closed/hold no thoughts about the day long enough). Tried to induce your WILD tech, no luck. Could not achieve the sensations and enter sleep paralysis. Went back to sleep for the remaining hour and a half. Awoke, tired to recall, got a very few images and it was gone(same thing as 1st time, its just working out my habit/procedure). Got up went to bathroom, laid back down. Couldn't enter sleep paralysis and couldn't start the sensations. If i did feel my back sinking it was very little/not drastic. I specifically remember how difficult it was to push my vision away from me to aid in the sinking sensation, I just couldn't visualize the blackness going away from me, it just remained flat and near. I gave up and passed out because I was still tired.

I have a question for you though. All that really seems to be separating me from my first lucid dream from forum based practice is the process of relaxing, entering sleep paralysis, and then transferring into a dream scape. Can you give me any advice, based upon this and the 2 paragraphs above? Thanks for your time.

That weird sensation you mentioned about focusing beyond your eyelids makes perfect sense to me and I often get this when going to sleep.

But the weird thing is, I can get this feeling with my eyes OPEN, 100% of the time I try, in a matter of seconds...like if I am reading in bed and I hold the book about 10 inches from my face and I focus on the book and the words inside, it happens almost instantly, and whatever im focusing on slowly gets further and further away.
If i divert my attention from the book my vision returns back to normal, but if I look back at the book it starts to get further and further away again.

It sometimes actually feels like im in the back of my body, moving slowly away, when it happens; like im looking at myself looking at the book. If that makes any sense.
Very strange.

I will try this method tonight, with eyes closed, and let you guys know how it turns out

Originally Posted by Adam

Adams WILD Technique


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.

I love the tut Adam, but I can't understand the above words. If you want to feel like you are sinking back into the bed, wouldn't you want to visualise back further into your eyes not further away to give the feeling you are sinking backwards?
Or are you sort of faking the back of your eyelids are moving further away by looking beyond? That would make sense.
Great job.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

yeah basically using looking beyond the eyelids is like instead of looking beyond use that to feel you are moving away from the eyelids, if that makes sense?

Originally Posted by Adam

Thanks for the feedback guys.

yeah basically using looking beyond the eyelids is like instead of looking beyond use that to feel you are moving away from the eyelids, if that makes sense?

Then I would feel drawn forward or upward, not back into my bed.

Thank you! Such an amazing walk through

Even though I'm very new to this the first thing I ever tried was a WILD. The furthest I got was a numb body (not sp I think) and I started to hear music at will while listening to Binaural beats.

I think I'll try this method tonight.

However, there is something slightly scary about the prospect of SP but I guess it's perfectly normal. Also, would you suggest I do this with the WBTB method? I don't think I could do it otherwise. When my mind drifts I merely fall asleep.

I've been away from LDing for a few months now (screw schoolwork), but this seems like a pretty good place to start again. I'll try this tonight and hopefully more than that. I'll post any results. :-)

Yeah I'm am soooo exited to say that I had my first two REAL Lucid Dreams this morning using the W.I.L.D. technique. They were two short, yet, incredible experiences that I will never forget:

The first Lucid Dream was an O.B.E. which ended rather quickly after I tried 2 maneuver my 'Astral Body,' if you will, away from leaving my room and ended up moving (well at least trying to move) my body.

The second Lucid Dream was just indescribable. Well actually, it is, but the feeling it gave me is not. It took me a while to fall asleep again after waking from the first L.D., but when I did I found myself placed at the elementary school in which I like to play basketball at (I was there yesterday, in fact). I heard/saw a black SUV approaching to my right side and quickly dismissed it as my fan causing the sound produced by the engine, hence the SUV itself. But I had to do what everybody does at least once in a Lucid Dream... FLY BABY FLY!!! The feeling that hit me when I began to fly was AMAZING! It was soo real, unfortunately I couldn't control it and was headed into space. I tried to maneuver to the left to stay in the atmosphere but once again woke myself up, lol.

I was too happy at my accomplishments to be mad at myself for messing up both of my very first official Lucid Dreams, but hey this was just the beginning for me. I can't wait until tomorrow and that's when the fun is really going to start!!! XD

WolfeDreamer, congratulations and may this be the beginning of many wonderful lucid experiences!

Thanks Clairity, I had another one (actually quite a few that didn't last a second) this morning using the W.I.L.D. technique once again, but now I am having trouble controlling them

But I did manage to get to the 'scene selection stage' after spinning around (rather violently, lol) to maintain Lucidity. But I need to train myself to remain calm when trying to control what happens next. I always rush into trying to make something happen and end up startling my paralyzed body. But I know it takes time and practice... then I can know what its like to be in 'the matrix'

WolfeDreamer, every failure is "learning experience"!

It sounds like you know what to do (i.e., slow down).. you just have to remember to do it!
May your lucids only get better and longer!

I hope for the best too.
Remember on a realistic note too....
Your mind doesn't want you to Lucid Dream.
I found this after first having a few lucids.
You seem to go stagnant. Change tactics and get tricky with your mind.
Start thinking of clever ways you would not normally think of.
In reality you have the sense to be obscure and tricky...
your mind will try trick you in LDs, so you need to train yourself to trick it too.

Thanks guys... Yeah you're both right about how the body 'AND' the mind alike both seem to do everything they can to prevent your consciousness from staying aware and alert in a dream state. I've read you're WILD technique Clairity and have noticed in my short journey (I'm on day 5) of Lucid Dreaming that one's body will do certain 'tests' to determine whether or not you are awake when entering the waking stage.

Like yesterday and this morning when I was attempting a WILD, I noticed how my body continued to itch in a trillion different spots at different times, the pains in my heel (calcaneus fracture) were on !BLAST! when I was laying on my back forcing me to reposition myself, and that I was overwhelmed with urges to just move/stretch my arms, legs, ect.

I've also noticed that when in a dream the mind tries to 'absorb' you into it. Like when I mentioned the black SUV in my 2nd Lucid Dream, I failed to address the fact that there was a very small thought in my head telling me that the SUV wanted to do me harm. But since I was about %99.99 (soon to be a %100) sure that I was dreaming, I ignored the SUV and proceeded to fly. And a lot of times I do enter a dream state through one of my 'abstract' thoughts and have trouble determining wheter it is a dream or a thought b/c of how fast I entered the dream state.

But I guess, even with practice, the mind will still keep you on your toes at all times when attempting to Lucid Dream...