Thread: Jakob's Awesome WILD Technique

Hello fellow Oneironauts!

I haven't posted in a while because I was frustrated that so many of my posts were lost in the crash. However, having another very successful WILD this morning simply made me want to write this tutorial.

I will now introduce you to my WILD technique. This is what always works for me. In other words, whenever I enter Sleep Paralysis, it is a guaranteed lucid dream for me. Now some people might disagree with certain parts of this tutorial, therefore I say in advance that this is my technique, and what works for me might not work for everyone else. This is how I do it.

1.) I sleep for about 5 - 6 hours. Then I get out of bed, and stay awake for only a few minutes (not long). This period needs to be just so much that it doesn't completely awaken me and prevent me from easily falling asleep, and it also can't be too short so that I fall asleep as soon as I hit the pillow. This is very important, because my mind needs to be aware as my body drifts into REM.

2.) After this short period, I go back to bed. I lie down on the side, either left or right side, but lying on my back and doing this hasn't worked for me so far. Then I close my eyes and relax. Now I focus on my entire body, feeling my body, and I especially concentrate on my head. This is key for me. I focus on my head, the entire skull.

What I think about while I focus on my body is not entering a Lucid Dream, but entering Sleep Paralysis instead. After a couple of minutes, a feeling of heaviness in my whole body starts to happen. This feeling starts to focus on my head as I drift further into sleep. I concentrate on my head and all the heaviness that I experience. A few moments into this, I will feel intense pressure in my head along with noises and vibrating sensations, and at this point, I will already be in sleep paralysis.

3.) I am in Sleep Paralysis. I can't move. I experience the feeling of my head vibrating violently and sometimes even banging against the pillow. There is also a very very loud noise, kind of like a machine gun going off in my room. Sometimes I feel vibrations throughout my in whole body during this. A long time ago I had to keep reminding myself that this is not real and can't hurt me, but now I just find it funny. While my head is vibrating like crazy and this loud noise banging into my years, I do the following:

I visualize exactly what I would see if I were to open my eyes in real life. This means that I focus exactly on the position I fell asleep in, and I visualize what object or objects I would see if I were to open my eyes to get out of bed. If I am on my right side, I would see my wall after waking up. If I am on my left side, I will see lots of other things, closet, chair, lamp, window, etc. In other words, during these hallucinations in Sleep Paralysis I focus on waking up in the dream version of my bedroom. I visualize seeing my room from the exact position / perspective that I fell asleep in, and I think about nothing else.

Maybe 10 to 15 seconds later, I start to see it literally become alive. The image of what I would see if I were to open my eyes becomes clearer and clearer. A few moments later, it becomes very vivid. At this point, I simply "feel" that I am there, and I move my dream body. I move, and I get up out of bed. I am now in a dream!

Tips:

1.) Once the SP hallucinations begin, do not let your mind wander. If you think about anything else other than entering the dream version of your bedroom, it only takes a few seconds to fail at this. You will be in a non-lucid dream and won't even know it. Only visualize seeing your room from the exact position you fell asleep in, and think about nothing else.

2.) Always do a reality check after "waking up" from a "failed WILD." Many false awakenings can occur during these attempts, so if you think you failed to enter a dream, do a reality check to make sure.

3.) Do not be scared by Sleep Paralysis. It cannot harm you in any way. Remind yourself over and over again that the hallucinations you experience are not real. At this point you should be happy about the fact that a lucid dream is only a few seconds away.

4.) Do not attempt this at the beginning of the night, because that would be completely useless. You are not entering REM at the beginning of the night. You should sleep for 5 or 6 hours, as I said in the beginning.

5.) Don't be discouraged if it doesn't work on the first try.

And that's what I have to say about WILDing. I won't get into all the "prolonging a lucid dream" techniques and so on, because I am still looking for the best method myself to prolong a lucid dream, so I will leave that for another discussion. As far as WILDs are concerned, this is the best method for me. The only time this has failed me is if I am so tired that I don't get into SP, so I simply have a non-lucid dream instead.

As I said in the beginning, whenever I enter SP, it is a guaranteed lucid dream for me.

Try it, and see what happens. Let me know. Also any comments or questions regarding this, post them in the thread.

Good luck.

Jakob