WILD without WBTB

[Daytime]

Is it possible to have a wake-initiated lucid dream without having to sleep 5-6 hours before you do it. Becaus that would mess up the whole point of doing it for me. I want to use this method as soon as I go to sleep. So is this possible?

[Shlumpeet]

I'm afraid its not. I've tried and tried and tried and its not possible, unless youre a polyphasic sleeper, which I'm gonna try to do tomorrow .

[Daytime]

What's a polyphasic sleeper?

[Seeker]

Originally posted by Guidosoft What's a polyphasic sleeper? It takes less effort to WILD after 6-8 hours than to adapt your lifestyle to polyphasic sleep. I know I could never live that way =P Is there a reason you don't want to sleep first?

[Shlumpeet]

Originally posted by Guidosoft What's a polyphasic sleeper? A person who sleeps at differant times of the day...kind of like a person who takes naps and uses that as their daily sleep. Like; you take two hour naps four times a day, so you get just as much sleep as a monophasic sleeper.

[sh2dak]

Originally posted by Guidosoft Is it possible to have a wake-initiated lucid dream without having to sleep 5-6 hours before you do it. Becaus that would mess up the whole point of doing it for me. I want to use this method as soon as I go to sleep. So is this possible? It is actually possible, just takes hmm, abit more practice(maybe alot, depends on the person really) What usually happens in this situation though, is that you WILD and dont get all the way through, you then black out(lose consciousness), and after a while when your in the right state for dreaming(sure you could go straight into a dream, it happens, but it'd be during N-REM(Yes dreams during n-rem occur, just rarely.)). You gain consciousness and are either in one of the WILD STAGES, or your dream already starts and you feel the effects of WILD in your dream(or also only half in dreaming and awake, and WILDing in a confused state of mind, this is where it gets weird lol) and just gain lucidity almost instantly. BUT...yes a but, theres also a chance of your WILD not continuing and you jus sleeping and then dreaming as you normally would.

[Mickeys_Elbow]

A couple of months ago, when I was really focusing most of my energy to dreaming, I accidantally became a polyphasic sleeper. I was practicing MILD to the point where I would wake up every couple of hours, then stay up for a few hours going back to bed and sleeping for a couple of hours again. My sleeping periods would get shorter and shorter until I didnt feel tired anymore. Then I would stay up for 8 hours or so and start over. I think I'd like to get back into that schedule again because my recall was off the hook compared to my average before that, and compared to how it is now.

[wasup]

It is possible to have a WILD without WBTB.

[regetsref]

It's pretty easy to WILD during naps too. but I guess this is kinda clear already