WILD Dream Journal

9/17 - 3 consecutive WILDs

Today marks the first day in months that I woke up feeling like I made significant progress with WILD.

The night started normal. I told myself to wake up around 6am after my REM cycle. I found myself awake around 6:30. I made my way down to the computer and browsed the web for about 40 minutes. Went back up to bed and put on my sleep mask and put in my earplugs.

Tonight I decided it would be my focus to attempt multiple dream stabilization techniques. After a moderate wait I felt HI followed by a white transition. Remembering my focus I opened my eyes right after my transition and looked at my hand. My hand was very clear. I traced the outline with my eyes and began shaking my hand. Shortly after shaking my hand I found myself awake inside my bed.

My body was deep in SP. My thoughts remained passive and shortly after awakening I began experiencing a second round of HI followed by another flash of white. I opened my eyes and found myself in a very groggy state. I held my arm up and examined it. My arm was very clear but at the wrist there was a thick transparent line followed by a very blurry outline which resembled my fist. I tried to focus in on my fist but my attempt was unsuccessful. I soon found myself awake again with a strong feeling of SP.

I stayed calm and clear minded and experienced a 3rd round of HI followed by another white transition. after this transition I opened my eyes and found myself laying in a bed inside a room a didn't recognize. I walked over the the window, the sun was shining and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I looked at the ground which I guessed was around 4 stories below me. Then jumped out of the window and began flying upwards in a slow spin. After reaching a comfortable height I paused and looked at the ground. I was in a neighborhood that consisted of multiple houses and a road connecting them. While I was pausing I remembered my intention when I fell asleep. I decided to spin. I dove at the ground as fast as I could, spinning as quickly as possible. I imagined I was a drill and upon hitting the ground I began tunneling into the earth. My speed slowed down significantly after reaching the ground but my drilling remained consistent. I was dropping foot by foot into the earth and upon reaching a depth where I could see little sunlight I burst back into the sky.

I stopped at a treeline and saw what appeared to be a helicopter. I began flying over to the helicopter in hopes that I could find a pilot I could speak to. As I began approaching the helicopter it became clear that it was a car that was driving down a hill. As I got closer the car began shooting objects at me. I began dodging them and saw a man inside the car who was aiming at me. The inside of the car was lit up with neon lights and was filled with gauges. I flew back to make dodging easier and began launching projectiles out of my hand trying to hit the car.

The projectiles that were coming out of my hand were small but after hitting the car a couple times the car exploded into a massive fireball. As the explosion approached me I closed my eyes and imagined Paris. I opened my eyes and found the explosion even larger and still coming in my direction. I remained calm and began humming a song. I imagined Paris again and after opening my eyes I found myself in a black void. It was peaceful and shortly after opening my eyes I found myself awake in my bed. This time when I woke up I had to much excitement to remain clear minded. I found thoughts racing through my mind so I got up.


In the future I am going to try to remain calm when my dreams end and transition back into them. The experience I had last night gave me a nice motivational boost.

Notes: Sleep mask, earplugs - no background noise. WBTB 40 minutes @ 6:30am

9/15 - Short WILD

Used WBTB for about 45 minutes after waking up at 6

After laying down it took awhile to reach imagery. After reaching imagery the first time I paid to much attention to it and set myself back a bit, the next couple times the same thing happened but after a few tries I made it to a transition. My transition was a flash of white followed by the pattern that is on my blanket. I kept my eyes closed, letting the imagery fade and tried to let my dream stabilize before attempting anything. After waiting for about a minute in a black void I opened my dream eyes and found myself in a bed wrapped in covers. The images were very groggy, as I stood up I kept repeating clarity and my dream became noticeably more vivid but nothing like the level of detail I've experienced in the past. Next to the bed was a large bay window and outside of the window sat 4 empty beach chairs fully reclined on a concrete patio that was surrounded by trees. I decided I wanted to go outside so I tried to walk through the window. My attempt was unsuccessful so I walked back and ran into the window trying to pass through it. This time I slammed into the window, again failing to pass through it. As this happened people appeared outside of the window and began walking towards me. They were nonthreatening and seemed to wonder why I was running into the window. As I began to think about how to pass through the window my dream faded without me noticing and I could hear the familiar sound of my bedroom fan.

After this WILD I attempted two more. Both attempts failed and I slipped into non-lucid dreams that were very odd. One involved a FA that I never acknowledged until waking up and the other involved a group of people and a car pulling up to me demanding that I get in. After declining and walking away I had a small child tell me it was time to go on my journey and that I needed to go with the car.

Both the dreams were very thought provoking and while I did not experience the best WILD the dreams that came following the WILD were well worth the effort put into the attempts.


Notes: WBTB 45 minutes @ 6am, sleep mask, ear plugs, fan

9/4 - WILD inside house

Woke up this morning around 7 and worked on homework for roughly 2 hours. After I finished a section I decided to attempt WILD so I made my way to bed and tried to fall asleep.

This WILD went very smoothly. Kept myself well anchored and made a nice transition into a dream. The imagery I experienced was from a video game. I "interacted" or influenced it and snapped into my dream in a flash of white light.

I kept still for about 30 seconds to make sure my dream was stable and opened my eyes. I was inside my bed with the covers over my head. I could see the covers and they were well lit. I used this as a reality check because I knew that when I opened my eyes I should see black because I have a sleep mask. As I was getting up from the bed I felt my dog laying by my side. I moved her and got out of bed.

I walked over to the railing (long wooden railing) and jumped up onto it, slid down and at the bottom I did a double back flip off it. There were two ceiling fans at the bottom of the railing that are not in my house, I noted them as I walked around the corner into the dining room. The dining room was empty in the center (has a large table) and it was carpeted. The carpet was maroon in color with a square pattern. There was a hutch in the far side of the wall that I also noted as I walked past.

I went into the kitchen and saw a meal being made. There was corn on the cob boiling inside a pot and two on top of the pot, there were two steaks on top of a broil tray. I thought it looked very good and right as I was about to walk away I decided I've never eaten anything in my dream and Id like to try. I grabbed a piece of corn and took a bite out of it. My mouth was watering and I remember the taste of butter. I thought to myself, this must be hot i'll save it for later! I kept it in my hand and began walking to the porch area and as I rounded the corner my dream faded instantly.

Notes: Light mask, ear plugs WBTB (2 hours)

8/12/12 -> WILD

Woke up around 4 am naturally, went on the computer for about 20 minutes. Started to feel pretty tired so I made my way back to bed.

Decided to put real effort into a WILD attempt. Felt my body go through SP followed by imagery. My transition this time was quite odd. As I went into my dream I experienced a feeling I could best describe as being dizzy. It seemed like my entire body was dizzy.

After a 15-20 second period experiencing this dizzy feeling I found myself with a full field of vision inside my bed. I rolled to my left off the bed and right where I was landing stood a dream character bright yellow and slightly shorter then my bed height. The DC looked very similar to this but wider.

I became startled, closed my eyes quickly and started rubbing my hands. The sensation of rubbing my hands was incredibly strong. It felt just like I was rubbing my hands with my eyes closed in reality. I knew I was still inside my dream and I continued rubbing them. I experienced the hand rubbing sensation for between 5-10 seconds and I felt the familiar feeling of my heart pounding and a familiar black backdrop. I knew I had failed in my dream stabilization and I was awake deep in SP.

I attempted DEILD but failed, shifted positions and attempted WILD a few more times and failed.

This was extremely disappointing. Put a great deal of effort into my first attempt, had a transition and forgot to stabilize my dream correctly.






Just wanted to update my DJ, I've been trying to have lucid dreams naturally with less effort. Here are two backlogged entries, they are not WILDs.




7/29/12 - DILD after failing to notice a WILD transition, first time being able to stabilize my dream after being 100% non lucid.

Quick update since my last post, I've had 3 lucid dreams that resulted in waking up immediately after becoming lucid. I have also been failing WILD a lot. Now to the dream.

I used WBTB at 3am after waking up naturally. Stayed up for over an hour and went back to bed when I began feeling tired. After laying down I attempted WILD in a very lazy manner. A lot of my WILD attempts lately lack persistence. This is due to the way I've successfully had transitions and a lack of effort on my part. Usually when I have transitions I have to 'float' my consciousness into a transition. I've been 'floating' a lot earlier then I normally did and as a result I usually fall asleep into a non lucid dream.

Last night, looking back I experienced a dream transition which I've never experienced before. Usually I have falling or rising sensations, last night however I had a transition which resembled a gunshot. It was very loud and quick. After the gunshot sound I fell into a normal dream. It was a very interesting dream which I decided to write in my dream journal after experiencing it. I began writing on what looked to be some kind of computer screen. I saved it three times and after saving the last one I read the dates and times on the first two, when I got to the third date it was very blurry and unreadable.

At this point I had a very strong realization that I was dreaming. I had a rush which in the past was accompanied by me waking up instantly. This time as I experienced the rush I focused on rolling my body. Rolling didn't seem to work and I was experiencing extreme vibrations that were similar to a dream transition. After my rolling didn't work I tried to rub my hands together and during this my vibrations continued and the hand rubbing still didn't seem to work. I again tried to roll and after rolling failed I switched back to hand rubbing a last time. This time it worked and my dream felt stable.

I closed my dream eyes, cleared my mind and slowly opened them not trying to influence my dream. I woke up inside a home with my girlfriend by my side. We were both naked and I decided to fly out of the room I was in. I flew up and without even thinking I went right through the roof into the clouds.

Shortly after my girlfriend appeared by my side again, she was flying by my side. I accelerated to a high speed. The clouds in my dream could not keep up with my pace and my field of vision was became pixelated. While flying I unintentionally switched my vision into some kind of targeting mode, every cloud had a label with a line attached with a single line description. They were blue and red in color.

After this I decided I wanted to land. I flew down and without thinking I was placed into my parents home with my girlfriend. We were in an embrace upon landing and as I realized where I was I decided to explore my surroundings. I jumped out the window and landed on the ground mid stride. I looked at the neighbors homes while running down the road. The all seemed to have accurate details.

As I reached the bend in the road there was a home with a massive deck that I didn't recognize. I walked up on the deck and found a door that was cracked open. I walked inside the door and found myself in a beautiful roman style home. There was very detailed marble and tile work in the massive foyer. There was a staircase that wound up in a very long half circle.

The handrails were very detailed carved wood. I walked up the steps and as I reached the top I found a doorway in front of me and I stepped inside. I was placed inside another beautiful room with similar style. The walls had very little drywall, most of the wall was covered in marble/tile work but the sections that were drywall were painted purple. Shortly after entering this room my dream ended and I found myself awake on my bed.


Notes: WBTB stayed up until I felt very tired then attempted WILD, had dream transition but failed to identify it. Earplugs, light canceling mask, no background noise.







8/10/12 - Lucid dream, became lucid without recalling any kind of realization or transition.

At roughly 3am I woke myself up in the middle of a dream after having an altercation with a dream character. Upon waking up I was groggy and my body felt extremely tired and heavy. I got up and went to the bathroom to get a glass of water. After drinking the water I laid down and fell asleep very quickly.

The lucid dream I had was very long and some of the details in the beginning of my dream became vague by the end but I can recall the main events that were happening. My dream recall started while I was in a very tall stone and mortar building. I was in a side room by myself with a hallway that had a jail cell door separating me from the main hall. Inside the room was a window that overlooked a vast desert mountain range. I recall thinking that the room was very high off the ground (10+ stories). As I came to grips with my surrounding I floated effortlessly through the jail cell door. The main hall had no roof and a large amount of workers inside it.
They all seemed to be working on the stone mortar joints. I flew around to the different people and talked to them but I do not recall what our conversations included. After carrying multiple conversations with the workers I went back to the room down the hall and looked out the window. After admiring the landscape, I flew out of the window and experienced extreme sensations through my body, it truly felt like I was flying. After a short flight I closed my eyes and thought about teleporting. I recall spinning for a long time.

The spinning sensation was very strong, the strongest I've ever felt and after opening my eyes I found myself outside of two homes with grass in-between. Most of my family was along my side and they were having conversations with each other. I asked them if they were in control of their dreams. They replied no and I began explaining how they were in my dream and they were free to do whatever they desired. They did not seem to grasp what I was explaining and I recall my grand mom asking my sister about what she was eating. My sister explained that one food in particular she stopped eating because she read it was harmful to baby development. They all seemed content talking amongst each other and I decided it was time for me to go. I told everyone I was going to leave and it was nice seeing them. Everyone huddled around me and I closed my eyes and teleported to a new room.

This room had royal purple walls with a white ceiling. There was a stained wood door and a card table with a computer in the room. The rest of the room was empty. I recall being disappointed but the PC in the room was startling me. As I looked at it, the pictures and words were incredibly clear and accurate. At this point I started to lose focus in my dream and felt my extreme level of awareness slowly decrease. After inspecting the computer for awhile I closed my eyes and tried to wake up.

As I opened my eyes I found myself in my room. I was very cold and my girlfriend had most of the blanket. I had a feeling that I was still in a dream but it was unclear. I stood up and walked into the bathroom and noticed water puddles on the floor. The feeling I had when I walked over the wet carpet didn't match the feelings from reality so I became increasingly suspicious. I asked my girlfriend to come look at the water. We went from the bathroom into the dogs room and there were puddles a couple inches deep throughout the room. While we were walking through the lights seemed to be dim and without any recollection of how it happened I had a flashlight in my hand. I clicked on the flashlight and we made our way up the attic.

As we walked through the attic I kept trying to turn on the lights and none of them were working. I thought we must have kicked a breaker. We continued to make our way through the attic and I noted there was no water on the floor. As we came to the end of the attic my girlfriend walked into strings that were hung from the ceiling. They were little pieces of garlic that had been cut in half and hung. She began panicking and I woke myself up.

After awaking I held my nose to confirm I had actually awaken in my bed and my girlfriend was awake. She had been having a nightmare and we discussed our dreams with each other.

Notes: Had a drink of alcohol before bed, went to bed at 11:30, woke up in the middle of dream naturally from occurrences in dream. Very groggy fell back asleep within 2 minutes of waking up. Dream lasted well over an hour.

By far the most stable I've been inside of a dream. I'll dive right into it.

I experienced a light amount of imagery and a very small transition which fooled me. My transitions in the past had been very strong and lasted over 5 seconds every time. When I transitioned into this dream the falling sensation lasted for less then a second, it was fast and convinced me I had tried to stabilize my dream to quickly. I remained still in my bed and continued my WILD technique. Weird things started happening, I had a full field of vision with my eyes closed. At the time it seemed normal. As i realized i could see i thought some how I had opened my eyes, I closed them quickly and continued WILD. After thinking about what had happen I opened my eyes and got up in my bed. I looked around and everything seemed normal. I had the feeling that i had waken my self up. As my gaze lowered to the floor i realized there were things missing. Things that would be impossible to move as quickly as they had. I began becoming suspicious. I thought to myself, this seems real but there is no way those boxes could have been moved without me waking up. As i thought this i looked at my hand and began trying to push through it, at first nothing was happening. I tried to will my finger through my hand and i had a slight bulge in my left palm but nothing like i had experienced before when doing reality checks in dreams. At this point I abandoned the hand check and was convinced it was a dream. I covered my mouth and nose and found myself breathing naturally and I began walking into the next room. I walked in the hallway and found my girlfriend walking towards me, she had a very blank look on her face. I continued past her into the bathroom and was planning to teleport through the mirror.

At this point I paused and remembered to take time to make a point to my mind how dreams felt. I took in my surroundings and noted the feelings i had while i was non lucid and noted how real things can seem. I thought to myself it is in the details. I continued going through what i experienced and re stated to my mind how real a dream can feel. After feeling like i covered everything i I walked back to my girlfriend and told her my name very loudly. She just gave me a blank stare. I began to notice that even though i thought it was my girlfriend the details in her face did not match my recollection perfectly. The shape of her face was slightly different and many other minor details. I said this is my dream it is monday morning. She continued to stare at me. I bellowed very loudly and clearly and said repeat after me, then I stated my name, the day and said this is a dream. She repeated everything i said and I turned away. I said very loudly as I was walking I summon my dream guide. Nothing happened. I then thought I would teleport to him through the bathroom mirror. As I thought of this I wanted to show my GF how I was able to teleport through the mirror. I walked back to her and there was a figure behind her that I quickly noted and told her to follow me. I think this figure was a result of me thinking about the mirror and not walking directly to it. She followed me to the mirror and I said watch this.

As i looked at the mirror i felt slightly sidetracked, i began looking at the details of my face, while aquick glance looked very accurate the detail in my face was very wrong my jaw was much squarer, my brow was less defined, my eyes were shaped differently and i recall thinking that i did not look like myself at all. Then i regained my thought process, i decided I would teleport to my dream guide.

I dove through the mirror. I fell into darkness and shortly after i found myself clunking in a cabinet. I opened the cabinet and found my self in a very tall room. I looked over my shoulder and there was a huge throne about 5-6 stories in the air. The throne was empty and there was no one in the room. I began walking away from the throne and to my left was a chinese style hallway there were huge banners and other designs that reminded me of chinese decor. I remembered thinking that looks like a very secure location. I walked past the hall and there was an old man sitting down cross legged. I walked up to him and asked him if he was my dream guide. At first he seemed like he would say yes but in my mind I decided I would ask him multiple times and put the truth to the test. After thinking this he gave me an awkward hand shake and would not answer me. I asked him again if he was my dream guide and he said why of course. I did not believe him and thought he was some kind of guard. He was lacking conversation and became very un-animated. It seemed i could influence his speech and gestures which made me begin to lose interest in speaking to him. I walked around a little bit and soon after my dream faded quickly in the same manner it did on saturday morning. I believe my REM cycle ended.

This dream was the longest lucid dream I've ever had, I know, based of times that i fell asleep and woke upthat it was over 30 minutes. The detail was very strong in this dream and the only thing I found odd was the lack of emotion and speech in all of my dream characters. I found I could control them which is somewhat disappointing because I wanted to find/create a dream guide before I began controlling dream characters.

Notes: no nap, Used WBTB naturally at 4:11 AM, stayed up until 4:40, tried to fall back asleep, GF moved 9 times between 4:40-6:00 fell asleep at approx 6:10 and woke up at 6:54.

Wanted to post a quick update before getting into my dream. I've been trying to become a more natural lucid dreamer which is probably why its been 2 weeks+ since having my last lucid dream. Originally, I dove straight into WBTB and had a lot of success with it when I was taking naps during the day but since I have stopped and decided to try WILD on the weekends after the majority of my sleep.
After having 5 successful WILDs and a handful of lucid dreams I've noticed a level of control inside my non lucid dreams that I never had before. It seems like I make decisions and influence dreams understanding that no harm can come to me. In the rare cases that I feel fear any more in a dream I wake myself up immediately. My dreams have become more enjoyable in general and more interesting then the dreams I recall having before trying lucid dreaming.



Last night I fell asleep an hour and a half later then normal. I woke up in-between my REM cycles twice and the third time I woke up (7:30) I helped my GF take out the trash. After I went back to bed and began attempting WILD. My body was very tired, which I think was a result of me going to bed later then normal and I found myself very relaxed when I laid down. I didn't have to clear my mind much before imagery came on. The imagery I experienced resulted from my thoughts. I was picturing my cabinets and what was inside, I could not remember what was in the middle shelf and when I finally remembered the imagery became very strong and it was almost like I was looking right at my cabinet. Shortly after this I felt a moderate to strong vibration throughout my entire body, it was like I was bouncing up and down in my bed. I recognized this as a transition and tried to stabilize my dream to quickly and found myself awake in my bed deep in sleep paralysis.



After this failed transition I moved because the sleep paralysis I was experiencing was fairly uncomfortable on my neck. After struggling with a lot of thoughts I tried clearing my mind and suddenly without any imagery I was falling to my right. This transition was much stronger then the vibrations and I slowly tried to stabilize my fall I imagined I was using a jet pack and slowly leaned left then back right and shortly after the falling sensation subsided.

I purposely did not try to visualize any kind of dream scape and just opened my eyes. I found myself laying in a bed inside a room I have no memory of. When I felt stabilized I began trying to say my name out loud. I found myself unable to speak so I began projecting my thoughts very loudly and clearly inside my dream. I stated my name multiple times and I tried to remember what day it was. It took me a second but I remembered that it was Saturday morning. After projecting it was Saturday morning I tried to remember what I had done recently and the only thing I was able to think of was that I had awaken and fallen back asleep.

After stating these I tried to get out of the bed and found myself unable to move. I tried pulling myself out and after failing I decided I would try to transition to a new dreamscape. I closed my eyes and tried to spin, this came very naturally and I found myself rolling slowly to my right and down. After 3 rolls I opened my eyes and found myself in a bedroom very similar to the one I was in but I was floating in the air. I turned to my right and saw a doorway and I floated over to it. As I approached it I noticed there was huge trim on the walls. I decided to float on the top edge of the trim and used it as a guide. As I was floating across it I came to an corner, on the other side of the corner was a set of stairs. I could see a concrete floor at the bottom. I paused at the corner and clinched my legs on either side. I looked at my hand and shoved my right index finger through my left palm at first only a little was coming through but slowly the left side of my top palm began stretching, the part I was stretching was turning red and I remember thinking "this is the kind of stuff you can do in dreams, this is awesome" then I pushed myself down the trim piece and found myself inside of a very large garage. Directly in front of me was a small red and black pocket bike that was taken apart into pieces. to the left of the pocket bike was a cheap card table that had a computer screen on it and there was a chair pushed into the card table. I floated past the computer and pocket bike and saw a really nice bright red car to the right parked in the garage. I do not recall what model or make it was but I turned back to my left and saw an open garage door which I walked through.

After walking through the garage door I was outside and there was a small electric fence I had to hop over. Then I recall looking at the lawn and thinking that I knew exactly where I was, I thought I was in the town I grew up in and the lawn looked very familiar. In the center of the lawn was a bright red jacked up truck. It was a lawn decoration and there was a sign placed on the truck. I did not read the sign and I looked to my left where there was a road. Parked on the road was a huge monster truck. After looking at the truck for a little bit I turned back around to my right and without realizing it the garage I walked out from had disappeared and was replaced by another two bay garage. I remember seeing a really nice road bike on display inside of the garage and I floated over to it. I remember inspecting the bike then as I got to the bag that was sitting above the seat, almost like a backrest it had a logo on it which I tried to read. The logo said in a very nice design New Persona and after looking at the bike a little longer my dream quickly faded, it was nearly instant and it felt almost like my REM cycle had ended. I was not excited and I do not think my excitement etc. was the reason for this dream ending.

The entire feeling I had through the dream was "this is awesome" the dream was full of very high detail and lasted for what felt like 5-10 minutes. It was a lot of fun and a relief after not having one for some time.

All week I have been adjusting my alarms trying to figure out when my REM cycles begin. When ever I was setting alarms I found myself waking up 2-3 minutes before them and instead of finding my REM cycles I think I was interrupting my sleep cycles. I've tried anywhere from 1 minute WBTBs to an hour and a half WBTBs and nothing was seeming to work. Last night I went back to what gave me my success and was rewarded with a brief WILD. From this I've learned its best to use my natural awakenings in the night when attempting WILD.

I naturally woke up at around 2 and 4:30 last night. At 2 I decided just to go back to bed and at 4:30 I decided to WBTB. I stayed up for about 20 minutes and went back to sleep. I almost had a transition then my GF started shifting in the bed and woke me up. So I moved into another position and started again. Shortly after I found myself experiencing very strong imagery. This was the first time I experienced bright blocks of vivid colors. I stayed calm and passive and after about 2 minutes I found myself floating forward. As I was entering my dream it felt very unstable so I quickly tried to stabilize and after feeling comfortable I stated my first and last name very clearly. At this point I was in a black void and I was unsure of what to visualize. I was just observing and in the distance I saw what looked like a picture frame. I tried to pull myself into the scene but was unsuccessful. I decided to close my dream eyes and I do not recall visualizing much but upon opening my eyes I found myself in a kitchen that resembled one I am familiar with in reality. To my right was a sliding glass door, to my left was a hallway. I looked outside it briefly and recall seeing a deck outside. Then I turned to my left and began walking down the hallway. While I was walking down the hall I was thinking about what to do. First thing that came to mind was a reality check. I wanted to remind myself why I do reality checks throughout the day. I stopped and examined my fingers and began pushing my right index finger through my left palm. I looked closely and recall thinking that the detail of my hand was fairly accurate. I placed my palm face up and pulled my finger out and watched my palm heal almost instantly. I turned to my right and there was a flight of stairs. I began walking up the stairs which had a set of double doors at the top. I began visualizing that through the doors would be a dream scene I've been studying from a National Geographic. As I became closer to the door my dream began to fade to black. I was to focused on visualizing to realize I needed to stabilize my dream and shortly after I found myself awake in my bed.

While this wasn't the best WILD I've had it was a relief after struggling through the week. I think I've found what works best for me though and I will be sticking to it.

As I was getting ready for bed I set my alarm slightly earlier then last night and took a mental note telling myself to wake up before my alarm.

Fell asleep, and I found myself awake a couple minutes before my alarm was scheduled to go off. I walked to the bathroom, emptied my bladder then I walked into the guest bedroom laid down and began attempting WILD shortly after. I recall this transition taking quite a long time. I was getting more imagery then I previously experienced and my transition lasted for what felt like 3-4 minutes.

I remained patient and found myself experiencing a falling sensation. As I felt myself falling I focused on closing my eyes and after the sensation stopped I opened them. I found myself laying down in a bed within a log cabin. I got up quickly and remember being very excited to begin my dream. On a bench next to the bed sat my dog. After getting up I decided I wanted to interact with my surroundings in my dream prior to trying the planned events I had. I began asking my dog questions and talking to her expecting some kind of answer. Instead she just stared at me with a blank stare.
After trying to talk to her for a bit I wanted to go outside. I opened the door and found a flight of wooden steps. The steps were fairly long and led to a similar valley that I had experienced last night in my dream. I remember looking around and there was a path to the left of the stairs. When I noticed this path I saw a figure walking down the path and as he approached I remember looking at his top hat in detail. He had papers in his hand and he was happily skipping down the trail.
As he came closer I asked him who he was. As I asked him this question he threw all his papers in the air and I found myself staring at all the papers. Each paper had different things of significance on them and they really grabbed my attention.
Soon after he dropped all his papers the dream transitioned into a fully snow covered ski trail. The dream character had fallen on his skis and there were two people around him trying to lift him up. I recall approaching him and as I got close to him I turned my head to keep him centered and recall seeing an isle behind him. It looked like an isle in a grocery store and shortly after seeing this isle I woke up.

I lost lucidity after talking to the dream character. I believe the papers triggered my focus and made me forget that I was dreaming. Tonight I think I rushed into my dream and when I obtain lucidity again I am planning on stabilizing my dream before interacting with it.

6/3 - WILD w/ two successful teleportations

The last couple nights I've been struggling with WILD after having two quick successes I was beginning to lose confidence. Last night instead of my normal WBTB I calculated when my REM cycles started based off when I would naturally wake up every night. I entered an alarm targeting my second REM cycle because I usually have fairly vivid and long dreams during that period.

I found myself awake with a very odd sensation. At the time I thought my alarm had brought me to waking state and I had very strong imagery. I decided to start WILD right away and about 5 minutes into the technique my alarm shocked me awake. I became wide awake and unable to sleep for about an hour.
The entire hour I was trying to fall asleep but I was unable to become relaxed. Finally I felt my body enter SP and I began attempting WILD.



Soon after I found myself falling into my dream. I became very excited because of how much I have been struggling the past couple days. I felt myself waking up and I quickly attempted to stabilize. My stabilization worked and I found myself in a black void. I closed my dream eyes and began visualizing my room. After visualizing I opened my eyes and found myself right where I envisioned. I was quite surprised and began walking around my house. After exploring I walked back into the room that my GF was in and she began talking to me while she was sleeping. I got the feeling she was trying to convince me this was a dream so I sprinted through the door and went into the bathroom.

At this point I began thinking about what I had planned for my next dream. I wanted to use the bathroom mirror to teleport into a land that would begin all of my dreams. I remember staring in the mirror and having a surprisingly vivid image of myself staring back at me. After observing the image I pushed my arms into the mirror. My arms went through the mirror like water. I began visualizing a wooded scene where I wanted to begin my dream. After thinking about trees and sunlight and buildings I pushed my way through the mirror and found myself placed in a valley surrounded by trees. I quickly took in my surroundings and turned to my right and there I found a old building with a wooden door covered in vines. I walked over to the door and tried to visualize a new area inside.

Upon opening the door I found myself in a room with a dirt floor, in the center of the room there was a small door. I walked over to it, opened it and there was about two inches of dug up earth below it. I turned away from the door and noticed there were no walls behind me. I walked outside the building and noticed quite a few abandoned homes that had missing walls and some that were complete with damaged air conditioners in the windows.

As I walked down the path I noticed a playground on the right side of the path. There were 3 dream characters playing on a swing set. As I approached them I said "This is a dream, you are within my dream" They tried to tell me this wasn't a dream and I replied by saying "If this was reality would I do this?" and I followed by ripping off all of my clothing.

I do not recall how the dream scene ended but soon after I found myself back within my room. At this point I was unsure if I was inside a dream. I walked into my bathroom and pressed hard on the mirror. My finger pushed slightly into the mirror and I recall thinking how crafty my mind was trying to make me think I was dreaming again. As I pushed my finger through the mirror I noticed my dog running over to me. I began floating and pushed myself into the next room. I recall interacting with my dog and shortly after I woke up.

5/30 - DILD followed by WILD

Last night I attempted WBTB after my 2nd REM cycle. At approx 3:30 I went on the computer for roughly a half hour. After going back to bed and attempting WILD I fell asleep missing the imagery. I found myself placed in a hallway. Initially I was not aware that I was dreaming but shortly after taking in my surroundings I pieced together that I was indeed dreaming.

As I started to realize I was dreaming I began running. I tried to run down the hallway as fast as possible and soon doors were flying by left and right so fast they were becoming blurry. As I reached the end of the hallway I stopped and In my mind it became very clear that I was dreaming. At this point excitement set in and my dream scape faded to black. As I was losing my dream I remembered to rub my hands together.
Oddly enough I began focusing and could feel the sensation of rubbing my hands together. I found this experience to be weird because within my dreams I never recalled having any type of dream body. When I decided in to rub my hands together in the blackness of my dream it just happened.

After stabilizing my dream I found myself in outer space. I believe this was due to my lack of concentrating on a new dream scape. I saw dots and immediately assumed they were stars in the distance. I recall using a swimming motion to fly closer to the stars (this flying was accompanied by pure excitement and I even recall saying "weeeeeeee"). As I approached the stars began to split. When I got closer to them I began to think they looked like white doves. I flew around for a couple minutes and I do not recall why but soon after I woke up.


This DILD got me very excited and upon waking up I was filled with excitement and as a result I felt wide awake. After writing pages in my dream journal about every little detail I could remember I thought it would be a perfect time to attempt a WILD.
I put my sleep mask on and laid down. Soon sleep paralysis ensued followed by imagery. The transition into my WILD was quick and almost effortless. I recall struggling in my last WILD to enter my dream but last nigh my dream began quickly in a bang of white light.
I woke up inside my dream and found my self laying down on the passenger seat of my truck. I slowly raised my head to find that my truck was driving down the road without any one steering the wheel. After thinking about this for a second suddenly my mind drifted into the beautiful surroundings outside my my window. I looked out my driver side window and there waterfall after waterfall. Above the waterfalls was a perfect blue sky without a cloud in sight and I recall being encapsulated by the amount of detail I was observing.
The colors and images I experienced in my dream were more detailed, colorful and vivid than anything I've ever seen in my conscious life. Thinking about the detail I observed in this dream still amazes me as I am writing this.

After observing the waterfalls for quite some time the waterfalls began to repeat in a pattern of three. Every third waterfall would be the same and they would be separated by a passing tree. I decided that now would be a perfect time to attempt teleportation into a new dream scene. I closed my eyes and began thinking about where to teleport. During my waking life I had a planned dream scape but being in the dream my thought process wandered and I found myself wanting to teleport to my last vacation which was in Las Vegas.
After deciding I quickly said to myself "when I open my eyes I will be in Las Vegas" After saying these words I began a count down from 5 and upon reaching 3 I recall hearing the sounds of slot machines and people chattering. When I opened my eyes I recall seeing a floor pattern forming. The dream scape detail faded quite dramatically but the detail in my dream characters remained vivid. After the floor pattern formed my focus shifted from the flooring to a building I was placed inside. I recall thinking it resembled a college building.
There were a lot of glass windows filled with people and as I started walking I found myself mixed in with a group of three people. I do not know who these people were but they were following me. I decided to explore the building and recall entering a stairwell to get to other floors within the building. As I began climbing the stairs I recall seeing floor after floor of empty space. There were rooms but no people. I kept climbing searching for more places and eventually decided to try to teleport to Las Vegas again. I closed my eyes and repeated "when I open my eyes I will be in Las Vegas" I started a countdown and opened my eyes and found myself in a new area. This was outside and there was a large group of people. At this point I stopped trying to teleport to Las Vegas. I recall thinking about my dog and shortly after I saw her running by. I called her and she stayed with me for the rest of my dream. I recall beginning to walk and I was trying to think of things to do. One of the things that came to mind was a reality check. Even though I was completely aware of my surroundings I became excited at the thought of experiencing a reality check inside of a dream. I looked at my hand, which previously I've never seen in a dream and tried to push my finger through my hand. I focused on it and slowly watched my finger tip disappear and re appear on the other side of my hand. Soon after performing this reality check some kind of authority figure ran up to me and started an altercation. I began to lose my focus in my dream and decided I needed to perform a reality check to bring my awareness back to 100%. I looked down at my hand again and tried pushing my finger through my palm. After pushing for a second I found my finger just sitting in my palm. It would not push through and I recall becoming confused. I returned my focus to the authority figure and recall him bringing out a miniature bat shaped baton. After I saw him pull out a weapon I began thinking this is a dream I know I can push my finger through my hand. I attempted to push really hardly through my hand and after a second I was successful. After doing the reality check I gained confidence and grabbed the baton on the end. I remember squeezing it and my hand began sinking into the bat. I raised my view slightly and began staring at the officer and he slowly began drifting into the air. At this point I let go of the baton and walked away from him. I began thinking about what to do again within my dream and I remembered thinking about my dog and recalling how she just seemed to appear. I decided to attempt to summon my girlfriend into my dream. I closed my eyes and this time instead of saying things I just began visualizing her. My eyes remained closed for a short period of time and I opened then and my girlfriend was staring at me with a blank stare. The level of realism I experienced shocked me and woke me up instantly.

Tonight I will be attempting WBTB again and I am feeling confident about entering another WILD. The lack of effort that it took to enter my dream last night has given me an extreme confidence boost when attempting WILDs. I've noticed my attitude shifting away from conscious anxiousness and towards calm passive states.

This is a very exciting entry for me, I've been attempting WILD for about 2 weeks now, taking naps almost every day for practice only to get halted at imagery, but all the sleepless nights and naps paid off last night

Last night began normally, I woke up after each REM cycle and after my 2nd REM cycle I attempted WILD
At first I reached the patterns and began having conscious thoughts soon after. After attempting it I was unable to fall back asleep. I went downstairs and spent about 30 minutes on the computer watching lucid dreaming videos on youtube and as I became tired again I made my way upstairs and attempted WILD for a second time.

After reaching the imagery for a second time I recall having a few conscious thoughts that passed and soon all my thoughts were remaining passive, the last thought that I had was "this is a wild" and soon after I felt like I was falling through my bed, the feeling was unmistakable and I immediately became aware that I had transitioned into a dream. My awareness remained crystal clear and I recall saying "clarity" out loud continuously. At this point I felt like I had awareness of my body still in bed and during my entire lucid dream I was imagining that I was mumbling in my bed and my girlfriend was talking to me trying to wake me up.

While I had this awareness my feelings began changing from a falling sensation to a rising sensation. Soon after, my vision was encompassed with a vast rolling mountain range that had meticulous landscaping, all the grass was perfectly mowed and there were rectangular boxes that had planted flowers filled with vivid colors all though the mountain range, my vision began rising uncontrollably almost like a Hollywood movie camera that is on a rail.

At some point when I was repeating clarity to myself my dream split into slides and the dream became separated in layers by colors, at this point I had the feeling that I was losing my dream but the slides pieced back together and formed an even clearer picture. The level of detail I experienced in this dream was incredible!

My view peaked and the camera began to roll down and to the left slowly, at this point I began thinking again that I was losing my dream. It took a fairly long time but I after a struggle to stay inside my dream I found myself waking up and talking to my girlfriend about my experience, she was telling me how she could hear me mumbling and attempted to wake me up. I was discussing my experience in detail with her for awhile and after discussing the details I recall moving away from her and there were other people that showed up within my dream.

At this point I instantly recognized this as a false awakening because I thought to myself that I should be in my room and there should not be anyone else in the room. As I realized this I said "clarity" to myself again and my whole dream scape turned to a pure white backdrop (I sleep with a light canceling mask) and shortly after I woke up in my bed and confirmed that I was not talking to my girlfriend previously.

This was a truly amazing experience and I am looking forward to expanding my control within my dreams!