Quote Originally Posted by BillyBob View Post
Yes it really did just hit one one morning as I was WILDing, something along the lines of "Oh my god. All you have to do to WILD is fall asleep."
Heh, yeah. WILD is just sleep with a twist =P Of course, its the twist that's the pain =P

The thing that's really got my gears rolling is if there is actually a "mental" block that prevents you from WILDing. You see, WILDing would be contradictory. I had previously thought that staying aware would prevent you from WILDing because in order to WILD you must remain aware/concious. But if you were aware/concious, your mind couldn't delude itself into a dream and you wouldn't become lucid. Of course, if you have one you shouldn't be able to have the other so I explained our ability to WILD by using doublethink. The ability to hold two mutually contradicing beleifs at the same time. Of course, there is no way to conciously use doublethink as the use of doublethink required doublethink to be used on itself thus that was useless XD

But if the thing blocking it is biological and there is not the above described mental barrier then there is no contradiction... you can be concious and slip into a lucid state without doing some crazy stuff to induce doublethink. You only have to stay concious/aware while not being anticipatory/waiting. That sounds a hell of alot easier (and accurate)

I don't think I was very accurate with my "destination" rant. I think I've been wallowing in my own tech too long and have thus grown accostomed to one of the luxuries of it =P After a bit of thought I've concluded that it's not nessasary at all as your head will push you to your "destination" automatically just as it does every night when you dream. Its just that controlling that destination is just so much cooler ;P

Lastly, I'm not the biggest fan of the pain method either. Theres probably a way with more finess. I'm gonna see what I can come up with in regards to that.... I mean, the criteria is so simple! But a method where you conciously induce it such as the pain method has a slight mental contradiction. You have to do ______ (in this case, pain) in anticipation that it will make you lucid but you have to avoid anticipating.... I'm gonna see if I can find a way around that (its pretty all encompasing, though)