I just had a WILD. It happened completely on accident...I don't know if this constitutes a "technique" or not, but I remember exactly how it happened, and you can decide for yourselves if you want to give it a try.

Last night I was falling asleep, and randomly thought, "It sure would be nice to lucid dream again, I miss doing that." I say 'random' because I haven't done much lucid dream practice in several months. But I didn't bother even trying to WILD, because it never ever works for me, and I have already psyched myself into believing I can't do it.

Over the past 5 or 6 days in a row, I've only gotten a few hours of sleep. I've been extremely tired, but so busy that I never wanted to go to sleep, so I stayed up. Every once and a while at night I play an online MMORPG. Last night I spent several hours on it, because I was really into it. Finally, I had to sleep, my eyes were closing against my will. So I went to bed. I instantly felt myself falling asleep, and sort of like spinning. HI set in within one minute, and perhaps 2 minutes after that, I was seeing full scenery before my eyes.

I began to see the game I had just been playing, and someone was sending me an instant message. Even though I wasn't quite asleep, I was seeing sketches of scenes, but I was still half-aware. I thought I was still playing the game, so I focused on the instant message window and instinctively made the words big so I could see them. They kept shifting.

"Turn right" and "Bean soup" and then something in what looked like Russian symbols. I realized that I heading into being in a lucid dream, like phasing or something, but I was SO interested in what I thought was the game, that I IGNORED the impulse to focus on a WILD. (And I think that's why I was about to have one). After several moments, the scenes went to blackness. My whole body became numb INSTANTLY. It wasn't gradual at all. I couldn't move. I felt as though my mattress was slowly sucking me in. I was sinking through it, when I felt as though I was all the way through it, I rushed downwards very fast and there was a VERY VERY loud rushing sound in my ears. It scared the SHIT out of me, and then I saw the dweller. At that point I figured I was either about in AP or the trans phase of WILD, but either way I was WAY to freaked out to let it continue. I tried to move but couldn't, obviously...(noobies, don't panic if you can't move...your movement returns easier if you just relax) so I waited for my consciousness to shift back and I woke up, kicking myself. LOL.

I think the trick was noting that it was indeed turning into a WILD, and focusing on something else half-way. Your mind must stay awake, that's why I say half-way. I was concentrating on something my mind made up, but I thought it was really happening, because I had just been playing the game 5 minutes before that. I let my logic go away. Obviously if words are changing you are either dreaming, or about to be dreaming. But I declared to myself that "sometimes words change", and my brain accepted it, and continued trying to read the words. By NOT focusing on the WILD itself, I was allowing it to happen.

The other part of it was that I was reading something. I was specifically focused on a specific thing, that my body thought was external, so I was half-dreamy/losing focus, and half-awake/still focused.

Just thought I'd share with everyone. I have never ever had a successful WILD and I've been trying for years...so if I can do it..on accident, chances are you can do it too. Different things work for everyone. There is NO right or wrong way to do it. Whatever works for you. This just happens to be what worked for me! (Maybe next time I won't pussy out of it?)

-Rain