Lately I've been more determined to keep a night routine in order to induce more lucid dreaming... when I actually keep the routine I've had phenomenal success. I prefer going to bed around 10:00 or 10:30, waking around 4 or 5, staying up for a bit... 30 mins to 60 mins... and then going back to sleep just shy of 6:00 or so (while it's still dark out) with the intention of having a lucid dream... or several. Normally when I practice this routine correctly I have at LEAST one LD. Last night and two nights ago I had 3 or 4 back to back, each lasting 1-5 mins.
The transition for me always starts the same. I realize I'm falling asleep, and can feel my spirit/dream body slowly disconnecting from my physical body. I then "roll" in order to peel away form my body and find my self floating in total darkness. Last night in particular I left my computer on so I could hear the whirring of the laptop as this occurred... I was slightly worried I the light whirring might keep me from peeling away... but it just took a little longer than normal to detach, and my mind shortly thereafter blocked out the sound of the whirring.
Here's where it gets interesting for me. In order to stabilize my WILD, I normally go from floating in total blackness to floating down onto the/a floor. (But I HAVE to make a conscious effort to do this. I have to think, "floor.") Once I feel the ground, I push my fingers through it in order to solidify in my mind that I am dreaming. Then light starts to emerge and I can begin to make out features of what NORMALLY resembles the bedroom I am sleeping in. From there I have to walk through the door or leap through the window, and the moment I do that, any landscape can emerge and anything can happen.
Another thing I've learned... if I'm hasty after I can feel my self float away from my body and begin to search for the ground right away, I normally have difficulty controlling my dream body. It takes effort to stand up, it can be hard to see things, (or they take a long time to come into view and are blurry), the dreams don't last as long, etc... but if I wait and just... float in darkness for a while, I normally find my self falling down a tunnel or sorts. The tunnel can look different, but it's always a falling sensation... sometimes feet first, sometimes sideways, sometimes head first, but it's traveling "downward."
It seems the longer I do this... just float and fall and observe ... the more stable I become in my lucid dream when I finally get started. The first two I had last night I just detached and wanted to get started right away... and it was a pain trying to get my dream body to cooperate with me. Everything was blurry and sluggish and it didn't last very long. The THIRD time I came back to my body and decided to try again, I was a little more patient. I must have "fell" in my dream for a minute or two just in observation mode. After this period I decided to search for my "floor" and THIS time when I found it, the room and everything came into view VERY quickly and I had a LOT more control over my body.
I think there is a connection and want to test the theory further.
I'm also curious how YOUR WILD's start. I think the transition into a WILD is MUCH more interesting than simply attaining lucidity mid-dream, because you can analyze everything that's happening from the moment you fall asleep.
Anyone experience anything like I've described? If not, what happens to you between physical detachment, and your dream world emerging?
-K
ETA: I normally DON'T experience vibrations when this happens, but I have had vibrational experiences in the past and am well aware of what they feel like.
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