Thread: Anchoring Trials

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Originally Posted by Julius

Success!

BillyBob, you helped me to focus on something I couldn't define, the Anchor.
This was the last piece of advice I needed and tonight I had my FIRST complete WILD.

These days I was trying to fully undestand what my different incomplete experiences had in common and reading this thread everything made instantly sense.

For three months I practiced my routine every single time I went to sleep.
Yesterday I re-read your old WILD tutorial followed by the new one. Due to my schedule I slept at 2am and had to wake up at 6:30, but after 8:30 I could come back to bed for an hour -- a "forced" WBTB.

After a brief dream I woke up and felt calm, clear and ready to try my usual routine except this time I knew what was important and what was unnecessary. It all went so smoothly in less than a minute.

Suddenly I felt the most intense and realistic spinning sensation -- I had to actually make sure that I wasn't really moving, then I felt a wave of powerful electric vibrations and pop! I was standing in my mother's room fully aware of my dreaming condition. The LD is OT here but it was the most long and vivid I ever had. I even remembered to try a lucidity test I devised some weeks ago.

I understood on a whole new level that the counting or the visualizing, the awareness of breath or pain are merely tools to achieve a simple goal: they must keep awake only a tiny part of the mind, an anchor to reality lodged in the waking mind. I gave too much importance to those tools, they were too central, I was putting an exaggerated energy in my concentration exercises.

Well, I mightly suck at concentrating, I have trouble remaining focused on something for more than twenty seconds, so belive me, If I WILDed, anyone can do it.

Again, thanks for your great work BillyBob and sorry if my english is a bit rusty.

hmm now I am interested in this

Try tying your hands together with a rubberband