Thread: What is the general progression for noobs?

Did you ever try WILD's or WBTB's? Just curious. :p

Firstly, thanks to everyone for the responses. All this info has been taken on board. I feel that doing ADA and RC's as oneup mentioned is best for me. I will record dreams until I am sufficient at recall. Also, if and when I get to the stage of 2+ hours worth of dreaming, I think I won't need to record very dream. Only the best ones or mm put important ones. I find that amazing that a lucid dream can be that long, that you can take that length of time to jot them down, oneup. Warbenefit, I agree. It woke me up well this morning. I did try a wbtb (I think) where I woke naturally and tried to let my body sleep and mind stay awake and lucid dream. Sadly that didn't work. Nearly did one this morning. But it wasn't me in the dream. Just a random celeb trying to take a naughty pic and send it to me. Lol. My second alarm went off and I had to get up. Boo. Lol. What are WILD and WBTB again? What does each consist of? Specifically?

[I slept only two hours last night due to taking a nap in the afternoon, I feel like I should be more tired than I am right now.]

WILD is Wake Induced Lucid Dream, where you relax in such a way, without moving, to go to sleep. This makes your mind fall asleep AFTER your body does, causing you to go into a lucid dream immediately. I've never been able to do this without my eyes being opened, for some reason. They close at a certain point and whatever I was looking at stays in my mind when I go into sleep paralysis. It's a difficult technique, I don't really consider it the best.

WBTB is Wake Back To Bed. Meaning you wake up after a cycle of REM sleep (when you wake up randomly in the middle of the night, that's usually when an REM cycle has ended) and stay up for about twenty minutes, to get your mind just aware enough so that when you go back to bed, you'll be more aware and have a higher chance of having an LD.

There's dozens of other techniques out there, you just have to find them. Good luck on your Lucid Dreams.