Thread: Kromoh's VILD

Hello guys. Time to post yet a new thread at the beloved DV community.

This time, I want to talk about VILDing.. What image do you have of VILDs?
When you hear VILD, you'll probbaly think of something extremely hardcore and hard to grasp for the average mind, and a completely effortful technique, right? Well, that's wrong.

VILD is perhaps the most effortless technique I've had contact with (oh the laziness ^^).

Kromoh's VILD

Imagining a whole dreamy scene from scratch and have it turned into a real, full-blown dream might sound ridiculously hard. That is because, with your highly active mind from the daily activities, your brain leaves few space for subconscious imagination. This does not happen, though, when you've just woken up.

This technique is to be done after you've just woken up naturally - not in the middle of the night, but in the morning when you wake up and still have some time to sleep more. Your freshly awakened brain will still be quite imaginative and subject to dreamy thoughts, making imagining things much easier.

Yes, imagining things will be easier... but still not easy enough. So let's move on to a thing I call subconscious stream of thoughts.

You know when you sail for a full day, and, when you set off to sleep, you can still feel your bed shaking to the waves? Or, when you play football for prolongued times, and you can feel your body move as if you were playing as you go to sleep? Or even, when you play some new game, and images of it keep recurring to your mind when you close your eyes?

Those are subconscious thoughts. They are there because no thought is abruptedly vanquished from your brain: something you thought as you woke up may stil be midly active in some isolated area of your brain, so isolated that you don't perceive it. But it's still there, because thoughts are chain reactions.

Now, if you combine that with the dreamy mind you get after having just waken up, you'll have the perfect conditions for a VILD.

Now let's take the boat example: you've sailed for the whole day, and as you close your eyes, it seems you are still moving to the water currents... It seems so real... real enough that it is so easy to imagine yourself in that boat... And it is. As soon as you think of that boat, your subconscious mind will delve more into that shaking sensation, that moving feeling... You'll soon feel your feet to the ground, you may feel the wind on your face or the sun on your head... although it's so weak a thought.
You shouldn't put any conscious effort into this. Just let your subconscious mind do the work for you, and proggressively make that setting more cohesive... more tangible. You can now hear voices of people and the touch of things... At this time you may visualise yourself opening a door, touching a wall, and the similar. Just keep letting your mind make that image more real. At this time you should be barely conscious of what is being done... all you know is that you're at a boat and you can feel things. When you least expect, you can feel your whole body moving, in a completely different setting from that of your bedroom. This gives you a doubtful view.. and you Reality Check.. and find yourself in one of the most vivid dreams you've ever had.

That, my friends, is a VILD. In fact, it's so easy that it barely requires conscious effort... just a bit of common sense to realise you're in a dream.

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Now for direct steps of the technique:

• Wake up naturally (which will probably happen in the morning after you've overslept a bit), and don't do anything special. You know when you wake up early in a sunday and remember you can sleep until late? That's more or less about it. Just to make sure, try a RC before going for the technique.
• Now, get something that seems to be going on passively in your mind: yourself in a rollercoaster, driving, skating.. anything that your mind tells you. There should be no conscious effort to this: your sunconscious mind must do all the work. You need to thinking of somethign initially, and let your mind develop that setting into a dream. You should be just lighting up a match, and waiting for the forest to burn for itself. That's why you'll need an image of something that is continuous/repetitive enough for your mind to perform on its own. Also, if the image from your previous dream is still warm in your head, it serves damn mighty well.
• As the dreamy images become more cohesive, you'll become each time less conscious... don't fight this. Instead, make sure you'll have the chance to remember you're in a dream (which can be done by simply telling yourself to RC during the process).
• The scene will become more cohesive, and at some point, your body image will be fully disclosed from your sleeping body: you're not on your bed anymore, but in a dreamy scene. You are able to move without your real body moving. This is when you know it's safe to take control. The very first thing to do is either a Reality Check or a vividness-enhancing technique (such as concentrating on your hand to see every detail of it). This is very important to increase lucidity, to make the dream steady and more vivid.
• You're in a Lucid Dream.

UBER IMPORTANT NOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BE EXTREMELY WARY OF FALSE AWAKENINGS!!! THESE TEND TO OCCUR FREQUENTLY!! ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU THINK YOU'VE JUST FAILED VILDING!!!

Guess that's it. Any doubt, shoot.