WILD Dream Journal

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!