Well, the visualization part is a little bit difficult at first because it is hard to determine at what point to start the visualizing. If you do it too early, the mental exercise it takes to manually visualize a scene may wake you back up.
Typically, if I awaken and I feel that I am close enough to sleep still, and would like to try a WILD, I will first start with the relaxation to induce the vibrations. Once this first part is accomplished, I wait for it to increase in magnitude before I start the visualization. Usually at this point I see in my vision an almost tunnel, warp-like effect in the dull vaccuous space in front of my eyes. At this point I know I am close to entering a dream. This is when I start to imagine myself in a scene, any scene will work. But I find it best to choose a scene that is on parallel with some of my dreamsigns.
When the visuals become more vivid, then I begin to imagine myself going into my dream body. Sometimes it is hard to tell when I have left my waking body, but if I am far enough into my WILD, sometimes I will try and *push* myself out. Usually this results in finding myself in my room next to my either empty or occupied (by me) bed. Since I don't particularly like entering an LD in my room, I usually wait til I enter the dream before trying to move.
I can recall at least 10 occasions that I have re-entered a dream I was just having through this technique. I will awaken and the first thing I do is relax and imagine myself RIGHT where I left off. I will see myself there and then BOOM, there I am again. Usually reentering a dream is not accompanied by the same vibrations of a typical WILD, and usually happens in short period of time.
Last night I had this happen. I was in a very interesting LD (which lasted a grand spanking 40 minutes I believe), and I started to notice I was waking up. Even before I found myself in bed, I decided to keep the image of the dream going. I felt myself in bed again with my pillow on my head, but kept the dream image going, and then it crept back into view and I slipped back into my dream body, none the worse for wear. You could debate that perhaps I never DID wake up into waking consciousness, but that would be beside the point. The general intention is to be able to regain a dream, or go back into a dream in a lucid state.
Anyway, even though my descriptions are a little long-winded, these really aren't hard techniques to adopt. The first thing to remember is to remember to immediately relax and attempt WILD coming straight out of a dream. The smaller concepts like visualization and transferrence into the dream body are just things to learn as your WILD success rate is increased.
Edit: Seeker, since you mentioned getting up to go to the bathroom, perhaps I'll mention the possible correlation between that and dreaming. I personally get up more times to go to the bathroom during the night than the average person. Probably 5 times. "What the hell is up with Matchbook and his overly-frequent toilet trips??" you are probably thinking lol. I don't know. But anyway, I am not sure if this is helpful in dreaming/LDing or not. I don't sleep usually more than 2 hours at a time before I wake up. And each time I go back to sleep I immediately enter my REM cycle again, therefore having more dreams, or at least easily recollected dreams. I am not sure if getting up or waking up frequently during the course of a night may help enhance dreaming. I would suggest trying out using an alarm to wake you every 2 hours to test that theory, but that would be annoying because you may be awakened out of an awesome dream. Anyway, just odd thoughts.
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