Thread: (WILD-1) Crimson's Workbook

Here's my workbook for the WILD-1 class, to record my WILDing attempts and to complete assignments and such. I'm going to start off with tonight's plan, saying that I'm starting to get pretty tired already for whatever reason.

Attempt 8/4/2010

Preparation:

1. I have set my alarm to wake me up a little less than 6 hours after I go to bed.
2. I have earplugs and a sleep mask next on my nightstand, but I'll only plan to use them if necessary.
3. I have a white noise machine turned on beside my bed to drown out outside noise, which I use anyways.
4. I will drink a glass of water before bed to prevent thirst and force me to get up when my alarm wakes me up.

Plan:

1. I will wake up at 3:30 and shut off my alarm.
2. I will get up, use the restroom, and head straight back to bed. (My problem tends to be being too awake, rather than falling asleep while I'm trying to WILD.)
3. I will use the tense-relax method to relax myself, then stay as still as possible until SP begins.
3.5. I won't give up after 10 minutes and go to sleep.
4. I will stay relaxed through SP, and enter a lucid dream!

We'll see how it went in the morning.


Results:

Success, sort of.

Meaning, I managed to have a lucid dream (YAY!) but it wasn't a WILD, and was lot later in the morning than I had intended. Plus, it was really really short, which was kind of a pain. So, here's how the night went: my alarm went of at 3:30, just like I set it to. I was already very close to if not awake, which makes me think I was pretty close to the end of my REM cycle. I got up, used the restroom, got a sip of water, and went back to bed. After that, I did my relaxation techniques, and settled down, ready to have a WILD. Here's where I hit the wall, like always: I couldn't get to sleep. For whatever reason, my body decided that I had woken it up, so it must be morning. I tried to stay mostly still for about an hour, and did a pretty good job, but there was no luck with entering the transition phase. At about 4:30, I decided to just try and get some sleep, however, I couldn't even do that! Part of the problem, I think, was that I was hungry, so that very well may have kept me from being able to sleep, among other things. I finally just got up, walked around for about half of an hour, got a snack, and went back to bed a little before 6:00. After laying another twenty minutes or so, I fell asleep and had one or two very vivid but non-Lucid dreams, which I'll put in my DJ after I'm done with this. I woke up, rolled over, and went to sleep again.

There was no transition, no SP that I recall, and I'm not sure if I lost consciousness or not, which is what makes me doubt this was a WILD. Either way around it, the next thing I realized, I was in my bed again in the same position I had just been in. I did an RC (pinching my nose) and I could breathe! I did a couple of things to stabilize it after I woke up, but it still ended before I could do much of anything. Very exciting, though.

For the record, here's my DJ for the night.

Well, that's it for last night. Pretty cool, first LD since joining Dreamviews!