Thread: am i missing too much ... ?

so here's the thing ....
all my LDs are basically DILD .... never had WILDs or even tried to do so ....

my question (for the users who experience both DILD and WILD):

am i missing too much ? do WILDs feel better that DILD or there's no difference basically ? does the level of control vary between both or it has nothing to do with it ?


thanks in advance ...

wa'el

I dont think i have ever WILDed but i have often DIELDed tho.
I have never DILDed either.
I have never thought to lay down and try to get into a
lucid dream from there and that is what i take WIlDing to be.
I let the LDs happen when they happen but one thing i will
venture to say to you is....no matter how you get yourself
into a LD..........an LD is a LD is a LD.! If i ever did try WIlD
and was successful i know i would just do the same things i
always do in a LD. Anything completely abnormal!!

I think the control is much easier from WILD. Not to mention you can set yourself into the dream world quickly by using WILD techniques. I feel its much easier to obtain lucidity if you enter from being half awake. With some prior knowledge that you were a few seconds ago resting in your bed and suddenly find yourself in an abandoned house or wherever, you can obtain lucidity much quicker. So for speed and success rate i say WILD. Keep in mind as long as your having lucid dreams period you are more blessed than most...

Originally Posted by EEclips3

I think the control is much easier from WILD. Not to mention you can set yourself into the dream world quickly by using WILD techniques. I feel its much easier to obtain lucidity if you enter from being half awake. With some prior knowledge that you were a few seconds ago resting in your bed and suddenly find yourself in an abandoned house or wherever, you can obtain lucidity much quicker. So for speed and success rate i say WILD. Keep in mind as long as your having lucid dreams period you are more blessed than most...

I am always half awake when i LD. But i do not know when it will happen
or start off trying to make it happen. If i feel it i just go into it. So do
i WILD or do i not....that is the question!?! lol Also i am always in my own
room when a LD starts and never somewhere else. To go somewhere else
is the next step i take.

Originally Posted by EEclips3

I think the control is much easier from WILD. Not to mention you can set yourself into the dream world quickly by using WILD techniques. I feel its much easier to obtain lucidity if you enter from being half awake. With some prior knowledge that you were a few seconds ago resting in your bed and suddenly find yourself in an abandoned house or wherever, you can obtain lucidity much quicker. So for speed and success rate i say WILD. Keep in mind as long as your having lucid dreams period you are more blessed than most...

what you said totally makes sense .... but do you say this from experience ? (meaning: do you experience both DILD & WILD and attain control much easier from WILD than DILD ?)

thanks,
wa'el

What i dont understand....is you say now that to WILD you have start
from being half awake. But when i said that i do that, i was told i must have
a sleeping disorder to be able to get into 'rem' sleep that fast???

I don't think you have a sleep disorder. You just "do" WILDs. Most likely anyway. DILDs are LDs that begin when you are already in the dream, while in WILDs you go from the waking into the dream state directly.

What you're missing differs from person to person. When some experience a WILD they feel nothing special, just a clean transition. But others have a very powerful transition which may be accompanied by various Hypnagogic hallucinations and perhaps SP. Try it and you'll see for yourself. In my opinion, WILDs are a great way to "prove" to yourself, that LDs are real and not just illusions as some might have you believe (Just dreaming that you are LDing - something I personally don't believe possible). If you stay aware you'll see that your consciousness inside the dream isn't different from the one when you are awake.

Originally Posted by wa'el

so here's the thing ....
all my LDs are basically DILD .... never had WILDs or even tried to do so ....

my question (for the users who experience both DILD and WILD):

am i missing too much ? do WILDs feel better that DILD or there's no difference basically ? does the level of control vary between both or it has nothing to do with it ?


thanks in advance ...

wa'el

from my experience you maintain consciousness during WILDs as in DILDs you're sub-conscious but then retain consciousness, it is easier to control WILDs and you usually will have more control over them