Thread: Clairity's WILD Technique!

Oneironaught, I too don't know if it was my "turn yourself" idea, the combination of things and/or the fact that you were due for an LD.. I'm just so very happy that you were able to become lucid!

For you.. I do the "dance of joy"!

May you have many many more LDs!
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Not had a lucid in a couple of weeks exactly, so i've decided to give your WILD technique a solid go over the next two weeks before i go on holiday, i intend to get good at WILDs, i can only feel confident with your WILD technique Clairity, its offered me the most success, i will post results constantly, i will suceed eventually!!

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

i will suceed eventually!!

I know that you will!
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Ok, i got some some really interesting results here but i really don't know what to say, well i set my alarm for 5am but then i awoke at 7am naturally and then looked at my alarm clock and it had stopped at 5am and was not working, i wasn't going to let this stop me, i went to the toilet an took a gulp of water from the tap and then i went downstairs with a towel. I then lay down on the couch which was really comfortable, i put in my earphones which i recevied yesterday with noise cancellation, they really helped, now i remember getting to a point whilst trying to WILD feeling that m body was gone, i sort of phased out, and then came back part way through trying to WILD and found myself not feeling part my body, i could still move them but they were definately beginining to get paralysed and i think i lay there and just continued to stay calm, i then tried to slow my breathing, and i then i began to wake up a bit more, but i continued to do it and i don't know what happened after that but i remember hearing loud noises even with my noise cancelling headphones on, it could have been part of HI.

Now this is the interesting part, now before i tell you i need you to realise that i don't know i did this within a dream or whether i drifted out of a dream and achieved a sort of DEILD but i remember myself in a dream in which i was in my house and i began to drift out of it and i felt partially awake and i said to myself "ok, i know that was a dream, lets try going back into it" and i stayed still, i felt drowsy and i then dream imagery began to show, i saw my front room and i was sat in a chair and i was worried that i may not be dreaming because i was sat in the front room chair though i was actually sleeping in the living room to try all of this. Anyways i was in the living room and it felt real, no really real, but real to the extent of me thinking that i was not dreaming, but i was still skeptical about the whole thing and i knew what i had planned for my next lucid, i thought to myself "who could i summon to ask questions too?" now for some reason i picked my first girlfriend from ages ago called charlotte, and i said "charlotte appear" or something like that, i may have just thought it in my mind, and then i waited, looked in the chair next to me and my mum had appeared. I was confused because my mind always seems to play tricks on me so i thought about it again. This time she appeared but she and the dream world looked a bit fuzzy and i don't know what happened but i must have done something but the dream just got vivid, not really vivid but she became easier to see. So we got up and walked towards my rug and i think i was about to ask her "whats the best thing to cause lucidity for me?" and i think i lost all consciousness and i just forgot everything after that. This is what puzzles me, this could have been me in a dream thinking that i did this but it could have really happened this morning, i'm really confused by the results, i knew i was dreaming, it was obviously a lucid dream but i'm not sure how to approach it because the results seem tangled.

Well thats the results from trying, i think i did pretty well from sitting on the couch downstairs, i did fall asleep alot easier with a towel over me instead of my big quilts on my bed, it really helped though, with such results i am definately going to try again, thanks alot Clairity

Hi Lucid Seeker!

First, congratulations! I think you definately WILDed.. you phased out, you had the HI (loud noises even with the headphones on), you had imagery begin and you instantly went into dream.

But you kept "talking yourself out" of becoming lucid! You didn't confirm your dreaming status (i.e., you knew you were on the couch but found yourself sitting in a chair, you called for your 1st girlfriend and your mom appeared, etc.).

The main advice I can give to you is to do REALITY CHECKS!! If you had done even one reality check it probably would have confirmed to you that you were dreaming and you could have solidified your lucidity.

ALWAYS perform a reality check if there is even the tiniest bit of doubt about your status (I really recommend doing at least two different reality checks just in case you get a "false negative" on the first one).

All in all, I think you did an excellent job.. keep it up!!
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Cool stuff, i'm glad i could finally do it, when i say phased out i mean i sort of lost consciousness in a way, i just don't remember anything until i became aware of entering the dream. It was very strange indeed.

I will try again tomorrow and see what happens, i think lying on the couch has proven to do things better, like you said "state your intention to your subconscious mind" and i will do a reality check also, in my last lucid drea, before this one i had the problem of not doing an RC. I will take your advice and give it another shot tomorrow, since i woke up at 7 instead of 5 like i intended to do you think it would be bett to try 7 again or try to wake up at 5? Thanks alot

this is a AWESOME tutorial about time , i found a tutorial which goes into exack details what to do!! thank you so much Clarity will try this one out tonight!

Arghh, bad luck last night, i got up at 4 because of my stupid alarm clock, then i went downstairs and my stupid brother was still on his laptop thus taking the good couch i used the previous night, so i had to use the other couch in which i knew for sure i would be woken by my dad when he comes down because he never listens when i tell him i'm gonna do something. I lay down, started, i got a bit numb and i think i fell asleep because i awoke 3 hours later to my Dad shaking me asking me why i was sleeping downstairs when i'd told him the night before i was going to try something. I'm so angy right now, he really never listens, if my brother hadn't been up so darn late non of this would of happened. Its impossible in such a stupid family like mine. I'll see if i can try tomorrow but unfortunately it will be the weekend so theres a high likeliness that my bro will be up late so he's just gonna ruin things again. Anyways thanks for the last minute tips last night Clairity, i didn't feel excited, more annoyed, i'm sorta glad in a way that i didn't have a lucid from it because i just had this gut feeling that i wouldn't do it and it always is proven to be right. Anyways its 7:10am here and i may get some more sleep, i tried my best.

Originally Posted by tekkendreams

this is a AWESOME tutorial about time , i found a tutorial which goes into exack details what to do!! thank you so much Clarity will try this one out tonight!

tekkendreams,thanks so much for the kind words!

I hope my technique helps you and that you have a very "lucid" weekend!
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Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

Arghh, bad luck last night, i got up at 4 because of my stupid alarm clock, then i went downstairs and my stupid brother was still on his laptop thus taking the good couch i used the previous night, so i had to use the other couch in which i knew for sure i would be woken by my dad when he comes down because he never listens when i tell him i'm gonna do something. I lay down, started, i got a bit numb and i think i fell asleep because i awoke 3 hours later to my Dad shaking me asking me why i was sleeping downstairs when i'd told him the night before i was going to try something. I'm so angy right now, he really never listens, if my brother hadn't been up so darn late non of this would of happened. Its impossible in such a stupid family like mine. I'll see if i can try tomorrow but unfortunately it will be the weekend so theres a high likeliness that my bro will be up late so he's just gonna ruin things again. Anyways thanks for the last minute tips last night Clairity, i didn't feel excited, more annoyed, i'm sorta glad in a way that i didn't have a lucid from it because i just had this gut feeling that i wouldn't do it and it always is proven to be right. Anyways its 7:10am here and i may get some more sleep, i tried my best.

Yeah, you really had too many distractions going on to successully WILD.. plus your feelings of frustration wouldn't have helped. Also, if you had successfully become lucid, your dream probably would have been interrupted (which would have REALLY pissed you off)!

Never fear.. there are many more nights/mornings ahead.. it will happen.
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Ok, it was a pretty bad night last night i suppose, i woke up sweating and feeling a little bit sick also because someone closed my bedroom door, well i asked my bro if he could get to sleep a little earlier so i could use the couch and he said he would try his best to. I don't know if he will but i'll give the WILD another go, i also have a theory to why i found it easier on that other try and i just PM'd you with the details because yet again i need advice lol, sorry.

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

Ok, it was a pretty bad night last night i suppose, i woke up sweating and feeling a little bit sick also because someone closed my bedroom door, well i asked my bro if he could get to sleep a little earlier so i could use the couch and he said he would try his best to. I don't know if he will but i'll give the WILD another go, i also have a theory to why i found it easier on that other try and i just PM'd you with the details because yet again i need advice lol, sorry.

Lucid Seeker, per the information in your PM, it does sound as though your clock may be making you too awake (i.e., causing your heart to race, etc.).. especially if you have to leap out of bed and run to turn it off!

I would recommend that you get a wristwatch with an alarm. They can usually be found quite cheaply and the alarm on a watch should be loud enough to cause you to wake up without waking up everyone else in your house.

Either that or move your alarm within "reaching" distance of your bed.

I hope this helps!
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Thanks alot Clairity, i tried it, the funny thing was that i put it right next to my head but i got into the routine of leaping out of bed, and i lept out of bed and went to find the sound, but then i realised it was right next to the bed and turned it off and felt bummed that i leapt out of bed, but for some reason i just went back to bed.

But hey! I'm not complaining because i had the most extraordinary lucid experience i've ever had in my life. I had a dream i was in school, it was a weird day because everyone throwing noodles at each other for some obscure reason, even noodles out the bin, there was noodles everywhere lol. And i was then in the hall where we were screwing around laughing, i was with a school bully etc which was a bit strange. Now i had this weird happening. I walked out of the hall and leaned against the wall and had that feeling where you know its a dream and i suddenly said to myself "i know i'm dreaming" and i was overjoyed and i just wanted to maintain the dream since it was already trying to fade itself so i started to touch my surroundings, i touched the walls and i actually felt the sense of touch in my dream which is a breakthrough for me, i actually felt something, may sound sad but i find really awesome, i then continued to touch and my dream seemed to be stabilizing. And then i jumped down the stairs and i freaked out, the dream began to end so i sorta fell against the wall and touched it and it worked to a degree but the dream was continuing to fade but then i thought i'd do an RC, so i plugged my nose to see if a could breath, i think i sort of pushed the air out, the RC failed, i still knew i was dreaming but as the RC failed i closed an eye for some reason, everything went black and i just was back in school talking to people. I then got chased by my mates as they were throwing noodles at me and i fell over and i got plastered in noodles lol. I then went to the toilet to clean up and i saw my mate Andy and he was dancing around in the toilet without his shoes or socks on, there was piss everywhere and he kept slipping into it. I just went along with it and laughed, he had some console set up in there and i told him that i found a way to easly become lucid and how i could easily do it and show him right there. So i grabbed the controller and stood there and began to fall asleep but then i looked at the screen of the game and i began to sort of go into the screen and the screen was basically my reality and i still had the controller in my hand and i shouted "Andy i did it!!, I'm lucid again" and he said "what colours the controller?" and i replied "its white with a red start button" and i saw the colours skew out of place etc, everythig was fuzzy" and he said "no, the controller is red and the start button is white" and i looked as the colours fell into the pattern he described and i then left the dream i was in back into the toilet where i was with Andy, it was weird and then someone came in so he had to hide his game console. Thats all i can remember from that but still, it was awesome, though i did nto officially WILD i still thank you for all the help so far Clairity because its definately helped me out in ways i cannot imagine. Thanks so much

I also remembered lots of dreams but one of which i really do not want to go into, it was good but it had its really really weird parts, i think i'll only be talking to AdamA and bro about this one lol. Thanks for all your help though and i think that its really helped ever since trying to WILD, really appreciate it!

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

Thanks alot Clairity, i tried it, the funny thing was that i put it right next to my head but i got into the routine of leaping out of bed, and i lept out of bed and went to find the sound, but then i realised it was right next to the bed and turned it off and felt bummed that i leapt out of bed, but for some reason i just went back to bed.

LOL.. old habits die hard!

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

But hey! I'm not complaining because i had the most extraordinary lucid experience i've ever had in my life.

YES.. now we do the "dance of joy"!

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

though i did nto officially WILD i still thank you for all the help so far Clairity because its definately helped me out in ways i cannot imagine. Thanks so much.

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

Thanks for all your help though and i think that its really helped ever since trying to WILD, really appreciate it!

Lucid Seeker, sometimes all the preparation and thought that goes into WILDing will lead to DILDs, MILDs, etc.
I'm just so happy that it all came together for you!
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This morning was annoying. but i got somewhere, i was downstairs and i tried hard to WILD and i began to get into SP and my body was becoming more and more numb and i felt glad. Then suddenly the phone began to ring, i could hear it beyond my headphones and it got so distracting i felt SP go away and because my brother is so darn lazy i had to go and answer it. I went to answer it.

Me - "hello?"
My Dad - "hello its your dad, is your mum there?"
Me - "no, she just left"

he then hung up on me

He said just that and it ruined my entire WILD, i'm so sick and tired of my family, especially my bro and my dad ruining things, when i tried once before i told my dad i would be doing it in the morning, he said he would not disturb me and he then came down the next morning and began shaking me asking me why i was sleeping downstairs, i'm at the point of breaking!!

Everytime i try seems like a waste of time because someone always ruins it no matter what i tell them. I will try my best tomorrow Clairity, i'm dying to get it to work again.

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

Everytime i try seems like a waste of time because someone always ruins it no matter what i tell them. I will try my best tomorrow Clairity, i'm dying to get it to work again.

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Hello all!

I answered a posting from a newbie who stated, "This seems like a great, stress relieving, mental activity. Do you guys find that it reduces stress overall? Do you find that your level of stress has been lowered since you began on your journey of lucid dreaming."

I have to admit my first reaction was to laugh. I replied as follows and I thought I'd share my response with those who are tracking this thread:

Lucid dreaming can be very stress relieving.. when you're successful. But I find that if you determine that you aren't progressing (i.e., becoming lucid) as quickly (or as often) as you want to.. it can actually increase your stress level.. if you let it.

Lucid dreaming is a magnificent obsession.. it can be wondrous and addictive.. and it can be frustrating as hell!

Don't get me wrong.. I encourage everyone to learn to lucid dream. It's like taking a trip where you can become anyone and do anything.. all without having to leave your house, take time off from school/work or spend huge amounts of money.

The key is not to push yourself.. not to put a timetable on getting your first, second, third, etc. lucid dream.

Just remember to try to enjoy the "journey" to lucidity as well as the final destination (your lucid dreams).
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Great stuff i loved the way you go through the alphabet and visualize somthing for every letter... thanks alot !

vinn, thanks and I'm glad you like it.

I've actually added a twist to the alphabet method that I'm finding pretty cool!

I pick a place I know well (either my home now or the house I grew up in). I then start with the letter "a" and try to visualize an "item" or "activity" associated with that place and that letter. For example, "a" = "apron".. I picture my mom in the kitchen cooking wearing an apron. "B" = "bathroom".. I picture the bathroom that I used to wash up in when I was growing up. "C" = "cupboards".. I picture the cupboards in the kitchen where I grew up and visualize opening them and seeing what was inside or putting things away.

If I can't think of an item to go with a letter (for example "z").. I simply skip that letter. Once I return back to "a" .. I pick a different item or activity.

This version of the alphabet method really manages to immerse me in the visualizations.

Give it a try!

Originally Posted by Clairity

I'll be very impressed if anyone can WILD before sleeping first! I can only WILD using WBTB and after having slept 3 or 4 hours.

I hope it works for you this weekend.. please let me know!
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That would be my problem. I've always tried to WILD before sleeping, and have started to enter SP. Part of my problem is I'm afraid of the HI. I'm a very easily frightened person. P.S. I realize this thread is dead.