How to WILD

[Sortilegio]

An explication I’ve come up with for those newbs who want to WILD: Some suggestions: -1- Dedication: This is most important, if you don’t commit towards practicing dream recall (if you don’t have any), and to take in consideration lucid dreaming, you will not accomplish this. -2- Dream Recall: This is the most important part you want to learn, if you have no dream recall, then there is no point in wilding, or in that case, to dream at all, because if you can’t remember your dreams, then what is the point of being lucid in them. I personally don’t have this problem, but from other users I can gather that the best way to improve dream recall is by having a journal. You should start this by waking up 2-3 hours after sleeping, write down your dreams in the journal, and go back to sleep, wake up again in 3 more hours, by this your total time of sleep should be in the 5-6 hours, and write down your dreams, and while going back to sleep, this would be a good time to practice WILD, but don’t get to carried away with it and loose sleep, if you can’t WILD, simply go back to sleep, then after you wake up again, write down your dreams, I suppose that by a month you should have got it thru to your mind enough in order to remember dreams well and not have the need to wake up in the middle of the night. -3- Meditation: I suggest meditating because it is very useful for the WILD technique, when you meditate you will want to find yourself in an environment similar to the one where you WILD, you will sit down on the floor comfortable, close your eyes and let your thought progress by itself, by meditating you will eventually learn how to control your thought process and be able to relax easily. For the WILD (Wake Initiated Lucid Dreaming) technique: -1- Environment: You will want to find a place that is comfortable to your needs, that has absolutely no distractions over you. -2- Preparing: After you have found yourself in an environment comfortable enough, lay down to sleep, get comfortable, if you find it hard to get comfortable try relaxing before going to bed, do what most relaxes you and jump back into bed, I find meditating very relaxing; it is also important to position one self in a matter that won’t be destructive, remember you will not be moving from here on, find a position to sleep in that when you wake up you don’t have a pain of some sort. -3- Start: This is when after positioning one self in bed; you start the process of WILD. First, you will start by clearing your mind, how to do this, the most popular way is to concentrate on your breathing, what you have to do is to take thought not into consideration, this means, stop fantasizing and stop taking any thought that may come around any farther than where it began at, do this and you will have no problem, it is easier than what is believed. Your thoughts will eventually start rambling on there own. Second, after you have cleared your mind, you will rapidly start to fall asleep or go into sleep paralysis (SP), try to not fall asleep, keep your mind clear, but at the same time, know you have your mind clear, this will take you to SP. When you start entering SP, you will start by having some hallucinations, they could either be auditory or visual, or they could happen both at the same time, don’t take any of them in consideration as you have done with your thought, if you think about them you will wake back up, and don’t get scared from them either, for example, if you hear your name shout, don’t wake up thinking someone is calling you, in the end, don’t bother about them, just let them happen. Another thing you will start to feel while in SP is vibrations or numbness, don’t get scared from it or you will wake up, do no think about them either, they could sometimes be very strong, and feel like if you are pulled or pushed, and also like a rush or acceleration, don’t bother about them, let them happen equally. After you have successfully passed to the stage of SP it will be soon when you start to get lost in your head, you will fell like you are inside your head, for example, in the movie “Being John Malcovish(or something)”, when they teleport inside of Johns head, imagine you are there, that’s how you will be. At this point you will start to see your thoughts as dreams, (I’m not saying that you should start thinking, keep your mind clear) they will start to play like movies, this is the most crucial point of WILD because it is very easy to loose lucidity, you will start to enter the dreams little by little, until eventually you are pulled into one, try and remain lucid thru this, or you will loose yourself in whatever dream you have gotten into, and go on with it; when you are pulled into a dream take charge, do what you want, notice you are dreaming, ask yourself what you want to do, before you play along with the dream. Congratulations, if you’ve done all of this, you have successfully done the WILD technique, needless to say, go on and do whatever you feel like in your dream. Happy dreaming

[wombing]

well written. i recommend mediation as well. in fact, if a person cannot meditate for ten minutes without getting completely distracted, i doubt they'll have much success with WILD'ing.

[Simetra]

Thanks Sortilegio, I'm completely new on the site and that helps. I used to meditate, need to get back to it ,and this gives me incentive to get more serious. There's so much potential for my brain and I'm not doing a thing with it!! The fear you refer to when you are in sleep paralysis is what keeps me from being able to experience different levels of consciousness. I don't hypnotize well either, I fight the idea of being out of control. I need to let go and allow the process to do continue. Sometimes I think it's a matter of trust for me. S

[wombing]

Originally posted by Simetra Thanks Sortilegio, I'm completely new on the site and that helps. I used to meditate, need to get back to it ,and this gives me incentive to get more serious. There's so much potential for my brain and I'm not doing a thing with it!! The fear you refer to when you are in sleep paralysis is what keeps me from being able to experience different levels of consciousness. I don't hypnotize well either, I fight the idea of being out of control. I need to let go and allow the process to do continue. Sometimes I think it's a matter of trust for me. S i know what you mean. i used to be extremely frightened by sleep paralysis, and some of the harmless, subconsciously generated hallucinations which i experienced while falling asleep. this made some lucid dreaming techniques impossible. Eventually i had to accept that my own mind can't harm me, it can only frighten me. i still don't think i'd allow another person to hypnotize me, but that's only because i can't be sure of their intentions. its very freeing to learn to trust yourself. though difficult good luck...

[Goldsplinter]

Dude... It WORKED! Yay, had a 15 second lucid dream! And woke up cuz moved physical body instead!! Woke up at 4 am..... dream journal.... Lucid Dream ... which ended at 5 am. Think what works for me is just to sleep normally, just without moving the body, and getting super-comfortable first, and right temperature... cuz the body heat increases it seems. So like must sleep at a normal temperature, more on the cold side.

[Neruo]

Nice tutorial To bad I currently I am into HILDing, trying atleast. I have to stick to one thing... however this tutorial made me want to try to WILD again

[Sortilegio]

Originally posted by Goldsplinter Dude... It WORKED! Yay, had a 15 second lucid dream! And woke up cuz moved physical body instead!! Woke up at 4 am..... dream journal.... Lucid Dream ... which ended at 5 am. Think what works for me is just to sleep normally, just without moving the body, and getting super-comfortable first, and right temperature... cuz the body heat increases it seems. So like must sleep at a normal temperature, more on the cold side. Awsome, congrats!!! Keep at it