Hi, I hope I posted this in the right area. Oh, and sorry in case I make a lot of mistakes, I'm Dutch so I do have a pretty good excuse. 
I'm 15 years old and I became really interested in lucid dreams about a few months ago. I started writing in a dream journal and doing reality checks. It didn't really work for me though. I'm kind of a messy person so I used to forget about the reality checks and journal half of the time, which is kind of frustrating when you realise it because I did really want to have LD. Besides, and this is kind of hard to explain... I often feel like I do not [I]experience[I] my dreams. More like waking up with memories of what it felt like. As though it never is in the present. So I found it hard to imagine myself realising I'm in a dream when not ever realising anything at all before waking up with these new memories.
Plus I have never had any difficulties remembering my dreams, they've always been pretty clear to me...
So I read more about it and decided to try for WILD. I think this method will work better for me because I know immediately whether it worked or not and because I won't forget it.
I have tried to achieve a WILD for... I think almost ten times now, the results are quite different. (I did always try to get a WILD directly instead of waking myself up because I usually get up quite early and I don't want to be exhausted for school.) Like last night; I was lying in my bed counting 'A - apple, B - balloon, C - cat' etcetera. My body started to feel like I would sink into my bed and two or three times it felt like a bright light shone right into my eyes which disappeared very quickly. I tried it for over an hour. Then I got up and drank some water, tried it over from the beginning. Again for over an hour and finally I decided to go back to sleep because it wasn't going to work.
My question; is it really necessary to get up while trying a WILD? I don't really mind about that, but if possible I don't want to stay up for 30 to 60 minutes. I read somewhere that three minutes is sufficient already, is this true? And somewhere else they claimed that WILDs are all about directly entering the REM - does this mean there is a certain amount of hours you've got to sleep before waking up? I've read three hours, four, six...
All together; are there rules or can you just work out what works best for you, and does it pay off to "practice" WILDs even when you start at it the time you normally go to bed without sleeping first?
Thanks a lot! Iris
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