Does WILD continue through all REM cycles?

**murchizon2** · 04-04-2008 08:57 PM

If you WILD when you go to sleep, do you remain lucid as you enter the next REM cycles?

**Luminous** · 04-04-2008 09:03 PM

Well, you will not be able to have a WILD when you go to sleep in the evening, because it takes around 90 minutes to reach the first REM cycle. But, when you do a WILD, it won't guarantee that you will be lucid in the next REM cycle, too, assuming that you don't do a WILD then.

**Adam** · 04-04-2008 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by Luminous

Well, you will not be able to have a WILD when you go to sleep in the evening, because it takes around 90 minutes to reach the first REM cycle. But, when you do a WILD, it won't guarantee that you will be lucid in the next REM cycle, too, assuming that you don't do a WILD then.

You don't have to be in REM sleep to WILD.

And in answer to the original questions I doubt your lucid dream would last long enough to last through the transitional stages of sleep. You go from REM to non-REM anyway, as I understand it you are saying from REM to REM - which doesn't happen.

**Luminous** · 04-04-2008 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by Adam

You don't have to be in REM sleep to WILD.

And in answer to the original questions I doubt your lucid dream would last long enough to last through the transitional stages of sleep. You go from REM to non-REM anyway, as I understand it you are saying from REM to REM - which doesn't happen.

Sorry, I must have worded myself wrong. I meant that it's not really possible to successfully do a WILD until after at least 90 minutes of sleep.