Hi ronjackson2. WILD sure sounds great, right? "Lucid dreams at your fingertips! Not 'random' like DILDs!" Balderdash, I (and most) say. Beginners are well advised to follow a DILD program to get started, and start experimenting with WILD once you have a few LDs under your belt via DILD so you know first-hand the "feeling" of a lucid dream, and the process of waking up from a lucid dream. That's because the "enter the dream" part of WILD is very much like waking up from a lucid dream, just in reverse.

The important thing to realize is that you must train for WILDs just like you train for DILDs: dream recall, dream journal, reality checks, daytime awareness training, etc. But WILD requires the added (sometimes tricky) step of learning to fall asleep while holding on to a pearl of awareness, and that can take a lot of trial and error.

By all means, keep on trying to WILD if you want to, every time you try you learn more about yourself and how you fall asleep, but make sure you start the "whole" LD practice program at the same time, and work on DILDs as well (and of course, dream recall!)