Why WILDs are best left for winter...

**Spartiate** · 08-03-2007 12:31 AM

Well, after a week of trying, I have come to the frustrating conclusion that I can't WILD during the summer

. Why? Three reasons:

#1: Nights are too short. Last night, I did my WBTB at 4:30am (one hour before sunrise) after barely three hours of sleep. I tried to WILD, and things were going great, until suddenly it's 7am and bright out. I had fallen asleep, worse, I had no recollection of anything that had happened in the last two hours and, worse yet, I am almost certain that something noteworthy happened. I was simply too tired to remember anything, but I can't WBTB later (for me, sunlight = wake up now!) and I can't go to bed earlier (or I will suffer terrible insomnia).

#2: It's too freaking hot. It's 38 degrees today and very humid, and it has been all week long. It's extremely annoying to have to relax an overheated, sweaty body. It just raises the discomfort level a lot.

#3: Summer makes me too damn hyper. I don't know if it's the fresh air or the ability to go outside for a few hours without losing a limb, but I tend to be much more active during summer, thus my sleeping pattern suffers. I'm already a pretty nervous/twitchy guy to begin with, so the added distraction is very unwelcome to my WILD attempts.

The only exception for all of this is nap WILDs, with which I am making MUCH more progress. But for sleeping, my attention has shifted to the MILD technique (hey, if it's good enough for LaBerge and his team, it's good enough for me), mainly because it can also let you lucid dream at will.

Oh well, this is more a rant than anything else... Only five more months until the dark, dull, freezing winter

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**MrGrEmLiN** · 08-03-2007 01:09 AM

I know! I get distracted because of the heat too! And the sunlight makes it much harder to go back to sleep after you wake up for a WBTB.

**ThePhobiaViewed** · 08-03-2007 01:34 AM

One problem with winter for many of us is school. On weekends though sleeping in winter is great I love sleeping in winter when its freezing and you stack up the blankets, although the past winter I cranked up my new electric blanket (the past winter I used 2 because they were both weak). Winter would rock if there was no school.

**Spartiate** · 08-03-2007 03:31 AM

Originally Posted by ThePhobiaViewed

One problem with winter for many of us is school.

Hehe, long live post-secondary education with its huge intersemestral break

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**MrGrEmLiN** · 08-03-2007 04:45 AM

Originally Posted by Spartiate

Hehe, long live post-secondary education with its huge intersemestral break

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Lol that's good, but I still prefer not to be in a classroom melting for the whole Summer!!

**Spartiate** · 08-03-2007 05:11 AM

Originally Posted by MrGrEmLiN

Lol that's good, but I still prefer not to be in a classroom melting for the whole Summer!!

Lol, I feel sorry for your school system! Here, the fall semester starts at the end of August and ends in mid-December, while the spring semester starts in the middle of January and ends sometime in May

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**tiddlywink101** · 08-03-2007 01:16 PM

Nights are too short

Sleep masks aren't expensive

It's too freaking hot

Open a window, take off your blankets and clothes

Summer makes me too damn hyper

Sorry can't help you with that one, unless you want to be taking melatonin or something

**Spartiate** · 08-04-2007 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by tiddlywink101

Open a window, take off your blankets and clothes

Hehe, thanks for the tips tiddlywink, but, after extensive research, I have realised that sleeping in the nude is not for me... Something about all the flailing and "looseness"

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**tiddlywink101** · 08-04-2007 11:09 AM

Something about all the flailing and "looseness

So you don't find it more comfortable to "let it all hang out" lol

**ninja9578** · 08-05-2007 03:32 AM

I've stopped trying to WILD, I get itchy when it's hot. It's not as hot here, about 35, but still.

**KuRoSaKi** · 08-05-2007 03:59 AM

I can do WILD fine at any time during the year although I have to agree it's best during Winter.

For me the benefits are.

1) I like the cold and can fall asleep easier.
2) The spiders aren't out so I don't have to worry about them.
3) Did I mention it was cold?

In the summer I have.

1) H E A T
2) Spiders
3) Spiders
4) H E A T

I have a blanket over my window so it blocks the light out so that's not a problem for me I suggest you try putting a blanket or something over the window to block out the light if it's that big of a problem.

**Spartiate** · 08-05-2007 06:28 AM

Originally Posted by Brandon Heat

In the summer I have.

1) H E A T
2) Spiders
3) Spiders
4) H E A T

I'm guessing you don't like spiders

(at my house there are a lot of centipedes, but they don't climb furniture so i'm fine with them...)?

And as far as sunlight is concerned, I have always wondered why it has bothered me so much less when I take a nap

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