Thread: WILD - Wake Initiated Lucid Dream

I want to comment on JoannaB's question. If you are in the first sleep stage you can and will move your body if you are not careful. Use your insticts here. If you feel partially awake, do not try opening your eyes. I would say if you can feel your body in the standard sense, you best stay fairly still. You should be feeling about 30% awareness of body in nREM1 and that is just too much to risk it. When you feel like you are floating in space and only have a vauge preseption of body, then you may try these types of transition.
What I like to do instea is what Gab mentions about moving a dream version of your hand. You will need to feel the differnece while awake. You can imagine clearly enough to feel as if you have moved yourhand, while never having sent the needed signals to initiate actual physical movement. If you find, in WILD, that you can feel a limb move, you are starting to form a dream body. If you sense that a real body part is trying to move, then back off and allow your depth of sleep to increase.
Simply having begun the formation of a dream body, may not result in a full LD. It is at this point where Ophelia means to open your eyes (dream eyes) and Gab talks about rolling out of bed. One of my favorites is climbing a ladder in my mind. Not only until I can feel as if I am actually climbing up a ladder (visualize each step) but until something random inserts itself. I may be climbing along and then feel as if the ladder is changing angle or that a platform is in my way. That means I now have a dream body and my mind is creating dream based sensations. At this point I may try to look around and start my dream.
Unfortuanatly it is an art, and each of you will likely have to play around, and fail a few times to understand what we are talking about. it is not hard, but it is hard to explain.


EDIT: Please note, as I have said before, there are two different basic WILD approaches. In one method you are only trying to bring some awareness into sleep, in the other you are doing thing to initiate dreams after you have fallen asleep.
I think all this stuff about opening your eyes, moving your hands, climbing and so on belong to the second type. Please start with simply following Gab's basic outline, in which a dream should form around you. You should have little question when a dream has formed. If you need more detailed help, then go to sageous' class, and after reading all the material, truely spend some time working on that form.
gab and Sageous are providing a streamlined easy to use form. Sageous does not add bells and whistles. The style will work. If you worry about trying more advanced forms, before successfully using a standard form, it will just hold you back. More experienced dreamers may be using visualization based tricks to enhance their success, but at first please just stick with Gab's straight forward outline, or take Sageous' class. ie: Do not bother with the diving board, until you learn to swim. Best of luck, Sivason