Thread: .::[NEWBIE]::. Lucid Help And Some Questions.

Originally Posted by virusje

I have no experience with the WILD technique.
But the first things you should do is: start a dream journal and write down every bit you can remember when you wake up, even if it's just 2 words, write it down. This will improve your dream recall!
Second is start doing reality checks trough out the day.
I have a question for you, are you dreaming right now? You will say no of course not, but how can you be so sure?
The dream is so ''realistic'' that you would say: of course I'm not dreaming, but you are dreaming, and a reality check can prove this to you. I count my fingers to check if I'm dreaming, but there are many more rc's.

If you have vacation right now, no school/work?
You can sleep longer in the morning, for me it's the best moment to lucid dream.
You wake up, keep repeating something like: when I dream I know I'm dreaming.
You can do this multiple times, waking up and going back to sleep. (WBTB method)

For me this works best, but everyone is different and has different techniques.

Don't be afraid of ghosts and stuff, it's just a dream.
Actually don't be afraid ever also in real life, because it's just a dream!

Hehe,thanks for the help !
I kinda live in a soundly environment,so i try to WILD, and as i said most of the time i don't know when I'm dreaming..Though,last night i think i just remember a scene from my class room,thats it nothing more.
I kinda feel hard to see if its a dream or not,cause most of the time i'm not aware of it,n sometimes i'm just kinda'dream-less' or it seemed like it. So , i go for the WILD.

And as i said,while performing WILD
"At a point i felt my body swinging and swaying and rolling,n i felt a little uncomfortable and had a light headache n i gave up for the moment. ( is that normal or just me ?!)"

Guess i might need a WILD expert to sort that out :3

Anyways,thanks ! !!

Hi ronjackson, welcome to DV! Couple of things:

The swinging and rolling sensation was either an approaching transition, or you were in the middle of a transition and just chose to give up. For the most part, if you can hang in there, you will enter a dream after all of that, as the transition means you are falling asleep. The dream will either form around you, or you might have the sensation of your "body" leaving the room and going to the dream. Either way, same result For the first night of practice, that's pretty good!

You also dream every night, regardless of whether or not you are remembering them. Like Virusje said, building dream recall via journaling and daily mindfulness is a very important skill to cultivate. There are many tutorials and threads on this forum that can assist you here. It is highly possible to be lucid and never remember it, simply because the brain is not accustomed to recalling and storing dream memories. I would build dream recall as quickly as possible.

As for sleep paralysis, you probably will not experience it right away (and you might not experience it ever). I forward you to DV's explanation of SP: http://www.dreamviews.com/wake-initi...explained.html. The important thing to remember is that nothing that appears in a dream can cause you physical harm. They are projections of your own mind, and in essence are parts of you--stray thoughts, expectations, fears, etc. In dreams they can manifest in forms that are frightening, but the more positive you are, the more aware you are of the illusory nature of the dream, the less frightening these manifestations will be.

If you want Sageous's opinion, I will also link you to his thread. He is our resident WILD instructor http://www.dreamviews.com/wild/13309...-bad-here.html

Good luck, and let us know how things go!

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Hi ronjackson, welcome to DV! Couple of things:

The swinging and rolling sensation was either an approaching transition, or you were in the middle of a transition and just chose to give up. For the most part, if you can hang in there, you will enter a dream after all of that, as the transition means you are falling asleep. The dream will either form around you, or you might have the sensation of your "body" leaving the room and going to the dream. Either way, same result For the first night of practice, that's pretty good!

You also dream every night, regardless of whether or not you are remembering them. Like Virusje said, building dream recall via journaling and daily mindfulness is a very important skill to cultivate. There are many tutorials and threads on this forum that can assist you here. It is highly possible to be lucid and never remember it, simply because the brain is not accustomed to recalling and storing dream memories. I would build dream recall as quickly as possible.

As for sleep paralysis, you probably will not experience it right away (and you might not experience it ever). I forward you to DV's explanation of S. The important thing to remember is that nothing that appears in a dream can cause you physical harm. They are projections of your own mind, and in essence are parts of you--stray thoughts, expectations, fears, etc. In dreams they can manifest in forms that are frightening, but the more positive you are, the more aware you are of the illusory nature of the dream, the less frightening these manifestations will be.

If you want Sageous's opinion, I will also link you to his thread. He is our resident WILD instructor

Good luck, and let us know how things go!

Hey,firstly ,thanks a lot,you've truly been comforting.
Also,thanks for the efforts you've taken and the links mentioned by you are truly amazing.

But as i was reading in real SP stories given in the link, some of them said they had their eyes'open',
And the figure or demon or whatever actually came to them in reality or they saw their spirit floating in air above them ( or thats what i could make out from it).Aaaaannnd,that kinda what freaks me out lol.

Hehe,sorry if im kinda dumb on this,but hey i'm new, I'm supposed to be dumb lol!
EDIT: removed the links in the quote box,didn't have appropriate permission.
Anyways,thanks!
Appriciated!