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WILD or DILD?
Hi, so I just had my first wild last nigh!! Or actually, my first two!
At midnight i was feeling very tired (for no reason), but I usually go to bed at 2 am (pm?? Don’t know, we use 24h format). I decided to go to sleep and lied down on my back. Keep in mind, I didn’t even intend trying for Lucid dreaming this night. Just happened.
All of a sudden the famous vibrations and high-pitched sounds started in my head and I backed out of it 50% but recognized that it had to be the start of sleep paralysis that I head read about on here, so I managed to let it continue. After only about 10 seconds I was paralyzed and really exited, but managed to enter dream world…or rather I had a fake wakeup which I revealed with a reality test (holding my nose and breathing). Now I’m not gonna tell you anymore…cause u have probably had a LD before. Now, after I woke up only 15 minutes later (from when I went to sleep) I found it natural to go for yet another try…AND IT WORKED. I managed to have two lucid dreams from using WILD at bedtime without it taking more than 2 minutes max from closing eyes to entering sleep world. I’ve had DILD before, but I’d never have thought I’d be able to have a WILD, and now it happened without even trying. Isn’t this just pure luck? Should I switch to trying for WILDs regularly or just continue failing with DILDs as I do most of the time?
I know this is up to me as a person to decide, but what would you do in my situation?
Also, last question – Does it get easier achieving DILDs after a few successful ones? Will the third that I’m going to try for be easier than the first two…or equally easy, seeing as my first two were ridiculously cheap to get?
Thx in advance! :D
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Congrats on WILDs! :thumbup:
In your situation i would have went for WILDs, but that's just because i am WILD'er like that, out of all my lucids only one was DILD. :zzz:
Though really, you can as well try to do both from time to time, because it's nice to have another method working when other one is not working for some reason. ;)
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Congratulations.
About the time PM is 12-midnight if it comes to the 24h format, and AM is midnight-12.
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Nice work. It helps a lot to get a few successes to motivate yourself going forward. I would try to ride this momentum while you are feeling good about it. You don't have to choose between working with WILD's or DILD's. You can try to WILD when you wake up in the night (either naturally or through WBTB). If that fails, you still have been thinking about LDing and that helps prime your brain for a DILD. A lot of my DILD's happen after failed WILD's because LDing is on my mind when I fall asleep. I would also recommend looking into DEILD. Once you have an LD, it is easy to chain a few more, much like you did with the second LD.