WILD: I suck at it

[Silver Sphere]

Last night, when I was in bed, I closed my eyes and focused on one thought: "I will remember I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming" over and over and over again. I watched the light behind my eyelids as I went. If my attention wandered, I returned it back to remembering to remember I'm dreaming. And I succeeded... at keeping myself awake, and nothing else. I was about to fall asleep once, but I snapped myself back awake - really awake. My heart was beating very fast, and I couldn't get back to sleep. That always happens... if pull myself out of unconsciousness like that, I'm absolutely wide awake afterwards, no matter how sleepy I was before. So, I can't turn around and try again. That's happened many, many times to me, but I've never seen anything written about that kind of experience. What am I doing wrong here? I've tried counting, but if I stuck with that I'd probably get to a thousand before I fell asleep.

[Tim]

yeah, the same thing happens to me. somebody put some advice here

[Silver Sphere]

I was going to bump this thing, glad you saved me the trouble and made me look that much less desperate.

[Tim]

haha no problem. anybody who reads this should help us out

[Lucius]

WILD seems crap to me..MILD works much better for me..and performing reality checks all day..and meditation..and of course..being obsessed with becoming lucid at the end of the day

[Seeker]

Cannot help you with WILD since I cannot even do that myself. Reality checks are about the only thing that works for me. I've only had a couple of successes with MILD.

[Mortalis]

I think the key to wild is to sleep before you do it...for example I will set my alarm for 4:30 and when I wake up I'll be dead tired..so I start counting to myself...1 Im dreaming 2 Im dreaming in my head..this usually doesnt work except it seems to help for the next part. I then imagine a simple action that either I am doing or someone else, it doesnt seem to matter..for example I will imagine my first Tae kwon do form or a very cool goal in soccer...over and over and over in my mind...all this time I am breathing deeply and trying to focus on that image. Then right before I fall asleep thinking about that think I loose it and think, shoot, Ive gotta regain that thought and suddenly I am entering a WILD..I feel a falling sensation and then a kind of disorientation and then thats it, im dreaming and I know completely from the very second it starts that I'm dreaming..no need to rely on reality checks..which i always forget to do.

[Dream-Master]

WILD does work. Today I had three WILD dreams. Woke up around 5AM, went back to sleep by imagining I was walking around a very familiar environment, watching and feeling things with my hands, since tactual imagery is quite powerful. After a couple of minutes I was no longer imagining it, but continued as a dream, and I was of course, lucid. You then need to stabilize the dream as it is not super-crisp. Follow that and see yourself becoming lucid.

[Seeker]

I've gotten as far as the falling sensation, but either the falling sensation wikes me up, or I fall into a non-lucid dream

[Dream-Master]

Maybe you can pretend you are skydiving to generate the sensation, and then you won't want to "fall sleep" anf hit the ground!

[lostanddelirious]

i fully know wot u mean about the Really awake part its almost like you snap into awakeness i think its all just to do with your levels of sleepiness try doing it when your more tired

[Tim]

i know what you mean, i hate being "really awake" i especially hate it when you can feel it coming

[Silver Sphere]

I wonder what that "really awake" feeling is? I swear, I've never read anything about that anywhere. I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one. It makes my heart beat so hard it's distracting to feel it up against the bed. I can't relax like that, let alone get any sleep.

[Lucius]

I tried WILD today(i usually use MILD) and I woke up in the middle of the night as I always do and then after 20 minutes of journal entry I went to try WILD. I pictured myself in a park in the summer like walking around touching things,birds flying around.After a while I tought I heared birds in my room,but I think this was the begin of a WILD,but I think I fell alseep cuz I kinda lost consious and it didnt work,I should ve remained consious

[rogue_noir]

I've had a similar problem with WILD.. if I attempt it after 5-6 hours of sleep, I have trouble falling back asleep again.. with 3-4 hours of sleep, I lose consciousness too easily. My body seems to either be "too sleepy" or "too awake" with no happy medium..

[Tim]

yeah me too. i have that exact same problem

[nightowl]

For me when I wake up at like 4 or 5 I fall asleep way to fast. Im to tired/lazy to even get up at that time.

[blushing_angels]

well, what works for me is taking a nap (3 hours?) in the evening, before i have dinner and stuff...then after staying awake for a while i go back to sleep again...because i cant possibly wake up at 4 in the morning. i don't try to wild or anything (i cant maintain my concentration and all), but i occasionally slip into a lucid dream.

[GestaltAlteration]

let me get this straight.. You need to be awake yet fall asleep to get a wild? Bizzare...

[Seeker]

Have any of you checked out what starman wrote in the newbie forum? I'm gonna give it a shot tonight.

[CT]

The "Really" awake feeling.... aah I know it well. Whenever I have a bit trouble to fall asleep (when I did not know about Lucid Dreaming or forgot about it) I imagined myself sinking trough my bed and falling. Often that did not work, It felt like my mind was made out of bricks (whenever I think of it, I associate bricks with it...) and couldnt sink trough it... It felt heavy, bulky, unable to push it trough... Is this the same feeling you guys get?

[theunknowndreamer]

You people are so interesting to watch. I cannot WILD or MILD. And really I don't see the point. My boyfriend tried explaining that there are different types of LD's involved but really I am happy with the way my LD's are and I am sticking to them.