Hello. I'm currently having issues with WILDs.
I've been trying to do WILDS for like 2 years now and I've only gotten 6 successes out of hundreds of attempts. It feels to me like keeping consciousness when wakefulness is lost is just a coin toss even though I know it's not, but everywhere I look just says the same thing. What I'm saying is, I know I have to be doing something wrong to be failing 99.95% of the time, but I just don't know what.

My attempts over the years have been this quicker variation of WILD that I switched to because I was having a hard time getting to sleep after relaxation. I call it a quicker version of WILD because it just skips the relaxation phase entirely which was useful considering that was what I was most struggling with.
1. Awaken at designated time. Do not move. (Auto dismissal alarm)
2. Repeat mantra in my head. in this case, "Go into a dream, lucid".
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4. Success (Mostly failure)

When it succeeded, you'd be in the dream in less than a minute. When it failed, you'd be up for a couple minutes or hours. It has its own problems though, chief among them being inconsistency and incredibly precise alarm timing.

After I got a new bed and switched to a more active lifestyle, I found that it was easier to get to sleep. I decided I'd give WILD proper another shot, so here was my plan:
1. Awaken at designated time.
2. Stay up for a little while (I tried 15 minutes but that was tooo long apparently)
3. Stretch and relax to 4-7-8 breathing exercise
4. Count backwards from 100. Inbetween each number, say mantra.
5. so far, nothing but failure.

To me, this is exactly what you're supposed to do. I've looked for years and yet still I am short of an explanation of what actually happens once you are relaxed and ready to attempt. You WBTB. I get that. You stay up for a little bit. I get that. You do relaxation techniques so you can fall asleep easier. i get that, but how do I get to the dream?? They all say, "just enter the dream" immediately followed by "this is the hardest part" and then proceed to not explain it?!

Look maybe I just don't understand, but it's one of those cases where I just don't even know what I don't even know. The thing that confused me for the longest time was people using wakefulness and consciousness interchangeably and I read in EWOLD that they are different; that you can lose wakefulness while retaining consciousness. While that's cool and all, I just I still don't know what I've been doing wrong, or just not doing at all! I'm frustrated.

I even tried finding what all my successes had in common, but it was nothing. The same attempt would just straight up not work another night, or the dream I'd get into would end despite my best stabilization efforts. That part would be cool to try and figure out but I can't even experiment with that because I cant even get into dreams in the first place!!!


I just; I feel like after 2 years I don't actually know anything. Clearly I don't with a 99.95% fail rate.