Quote Originally Posted by Ev View Post
Since you are interested in WILD:
Did you know that you can enter WILD after you wake up from a dream? This way you dont have to spend an hour trying to maintain awareness while battling itches and trying not to doze off?

It's pretty simple - once you wake up from a dream there's a window of a few minutes when you can go back in a dream. So if you try to keep aware during that minute while just relaxing and letting your body fall asleep you are likely to experience WILD (at first).

I take this one step forward and imagine the dream location I'm about to enter. This eliminates the WILD symptoms and I find myself in the dream I wanted fully lucid.

After discovering this method I dont even bother with conventional WILD, although I still experience it once in a while.

PS sorry, that was a bit offtopic, but I figured I'd save you a lot of time.
The sharp attention is indeed very nice, it will allow you to explore near dream states and hypnogogic states that are normally impossible to access/remember.
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That's the most successful way I have LDs. After waking from a dream I just keep my head clear but alert so that as soon as Im not in my bed or whatever, I must be dreaming.