I have been trying to Lucid pretty hard over the last few weeks, doing the dream journal etc yet the only thing so far to pay off my efforts has been a small, tantalizing glimpse at lucid dreaming that I had in a five second dream the other night. It's only made me more determined, and so I decided to give WILD a fair crack, with some promising results, but a few problems.

When I tried it this morning I got closer than I ever have, yet there seemed to be a few things stopping me. I live in the country, which I guess is pretty lucky as it is the ideal place for sleep, yet in the morning the birds are particularly loud (I know, I know at least I don't have to put up with traffic) but not too loud to be distracting. The problem was that when I tried to WILD, I heard the birds and other noises, and it was kind of like an 'anchor' that stopped me from dreaming, and kept me in reality...

Also I have found that when I do the little chant (I've found simply "lucid dream" to be effective) I find that it disrupts my HI. I can either do the chant, or let HI take hold, and if I do the latter I wake up an hour later wondering what happened. I know it's mainly a case of balacing them, but has anyone else had this problem? I'm almost there, I'm staring at the door, so to speak, but I just need to be able to open it and walk through into dreamland. If you get what I mean.

Cheers.