SUCCESS! But was it WILD, DEILD or MILD?

**surimistick** · 08-05-2012 10:43 AM

Tonight i managed to have my 3rd lucid dream (since I started counting them) yaaayyy

!!!

I did an "accidental" wbtb, and by accidental I mean that I woke up on my own and instead of falling back to sleep I tought "what the hell might as well wbtb!" but then I messed up because I couldn't decide if I wanted to DILD or WILD. Eventually i fell asleep and i did the AWESOMEST dream featuring Daenerys Targarien.

When I woke up I was depressed because at the moment I couldn't remember dreaming at all. But since it was about 7am and I'm on vacation i tought I'd sleep some more.

AND here comes the gold:
I tried to WILD but without putting too much tought nor effort in it. Before stilling I shifted my leg in an awkward position so that the "uncomfortableness" would work as an anchor.
Then I stopped moving and I fell asleep like a rock.

Next thing I know I'm on a dream! And I just KNOW it is a dream, even before reality checking! This never happened to me because I'd always find out I was dreaming after a while thanks to dream signs.
Then I ran around doing stuff like stabilizing my lucidity and talking to dream carachters and changing the dreamscape and trying to do my objectives.
I even had a couple of walse awakenings afther those i was able to go back to the same LD, which was the longest and clearest I've ever had.

BUT?!
Was it a Wild? I did try to wild after all and I did enter the dream directly.

Or was it a Deild? I had just finished an amazing dream, and i was full of dream feels!

Or was it simply a Mild? Maybe I just remembered my prior attempts of LDing and something just clicked.

I'm not an expert lucid dreamer, do I'd love to hear your opinion on the matter, because obviously last night I finally did something right and it'd be wanderful to know what! xD
Thanks for reading and sorry if my being italian made me fail at english

**nina** · 08-05-2012 10:59 AM

Congrats on the lucid! One thing you'll learn with lucid dreaming, is that not everything can be labeled and placed into neat little categories. Often you might have experiences that are characteristic of both wild/dild or deild/mild etc. and it can be difficult to say exactly what it was. Just from what I can tell, it sounds like you did fall asleep and lose consciousness during the transitional states, but became lucid immediately upon the dream formation, so I might be more inclined to call it a DILD than a WILD. I've had many similar experiences, where entering the dream upon its formation results in lucidity, rather than a dream sign or anything in particular about the dream. In either case, I'd still call it a DILD, but other people might say differently. I'd only label it a DEILD if you woke from the first, then stayed completely still, and immediately enter back into a dream fully lucid. But since you said that you moved around a bit, I doubt it was a DEILD either. If the end result is a lucid dream, then it really doesn't matter what you call it, as long as it works for you.

**surimistick** · 08-05-2012 11:19 AM

Makes a lot of sense I guess, but I'd really love to figure this out anyways so I can reproduce the experience in the future.

I'd have called this dream a DILD too, if it weren't for the fact that i tried to Wild before falling asleep and the result was different from any dilds i've ever had.. I really don't know, if it were in fact a wild it'd be my first successful one so I've almost nothing to use in comparison :S
Thanks a lot for answering!