Thread: WILD - Wake Initiated Lucid Dream

Originally Posted by Stenl38

Ok. I think I understand, sorry that I'm a beginner. I understand now that these are mostly transition descriptors. If I understand the rest correctly;
For WILD you don't specially need a dreamy state, but you need to be in a REM cycle (hence you can do it during an afternoon nap), and DEILD is a shortcut for when you ARE in a very dreamy state and can recall the dream you just had. This needs to be done when you wake from a dream. So I could maybe wake up with a soft tune. DEILD essentially is just the end of WILD, you're already in a dreamy state, while with full WILD you first obtain the dreamy state and then follow kind of the same as a DEILD procedure.

The thing is that I want to have a dream with a good amount of lucidity, so I want to have a LD from wake state, and I also want my friend to have one who has only got one LD before but is getting into it more. So final question, and sorry for going offtopic this much,
Can me and my friend set an app on our phone that needs no snoozing and goes off by itself to play a soft tune at around 5 hours of sleep and then use DEILD to get into our dream? Or is it necessary for us to wake ourselves up?

Thanks

Hi. First do not think I am disagreeing with Sageous, but one of my main techniques is something I have been calling 'alarm DEILD' or 'snooze DEILD' and it works well. He is correct in the way of a normal ringing alarm bell and having to get up to turn it off. What I use is different though. I have an I-Phone and the standard clock feature has choices for sounds, some are very gentle (Silk, and Crystal are ones I like). It also can be put into snooze mode for 9 minutes by pressing one of the volume tabs on the side. I keep the phone in the bed in the place my hand is normally. When the soft sound wakes me, I remain still and do not allow my brain to engage much. I press the button, and keep my hand lightly on the phone, so at the snooze alarm, my hand does not eevn need to move. This way you can attempt DEILD over and over until you get bored or have to get up. The one limit is you may interrupt LDs with the snooze, but it is worth it.

Originally Posted by sivason

Hi. First do not think I am disagreeing with Sageous, but one of my main techniques is something I have been calling 'alarm DEILD' or 'snooze DEILD' and it works well. He is correct in the way of a normal ringing alarm bell and having to get up to turn it off. What I use is different though. I have an I-Phone and the standard clock feature has choices for sounds, some are very gentle (Silk, and Crystal are ones I like). It also can be put into snooze mode for 9 minutes by pressing one of the volume tabs on the side. I keep the phone in the bed in the place my hand is normally. When the soft sound wakes me, I remain still and do not allow my brain to engage much. I press the button, and keep my hand lightly on the phone, so at the snooze alarm, my hand does not eevn need to move. This way you can attempt DEILD over and over until you get bored or have to get up. The one limit is you may interrupt LDs with the snooze, but it is worth it.

Thank you all!

I am glad it is indeed possible, and am also glad Sageous and you helped me. I assume I can install an app to just go off once instead of every 9 minutes. I won't get bored the first couple of times I think!

Also, tomorrow I have 2 weeks holiday so no need to get up per se.