Status Report
Finally! My dry spell has ended. And I'm on a roll. Over the past 4 days, I had 3 lucid dreams, after having practically none for the past several months.
And guess what? I finally had an official WILD! And it was incredibly easy. And I have the confidence that I can start WILDing more often now, which will do wonders since I don't really get enough sleep to depend on frequent DILDs.
I tried a couple different things this time. Instead of getting up and staying up for a while, I only got up in bed and sat up for about 3-5 minutes, after scribbling in my dream journal. And then, for my 'anchor' I just had a long, continuous looping "Om" chant, as if by a choir of monks, going in my head. It was surprisingly easy to hold onto.
After than, it was far less dramatic than the accidental WILD's Id had. Things went dark and my consciousness felt fuzzy for a few moments, and then I began to see HI of people from work. They quickly became 3D, and were walking around with no background. For a moment, the background came together and I could see my work place, but I couldn't get up just yet and I instead just waited for the scene to stabilize some more, and finally hopped up and ran around the corner.
But, I made a terrible newb mistake, and should have known better haha. I was so stoked that I finally got WILD down, after hundreds of attempts, than I forgot my goals, and didn't stabalize, and after taking off to fly over the woods, I lost the dream.
The lucid that broke my dry spell is actually pretty interesting. I became lucid in a forest at night, and it must have been a full moon because it was pretty bright outside to be night time. I knew someone was there with me. I drew a pentagram on the ground by tracing my finger in the air over the clearing before me. The pentagram was glowing purple, and when it completed it flashed, and the circle solidified into a well of purple light, and then a demon-skeleton from the new Devil May Cry game came up, and I began fighting it, and found that I had excellent dream control and threw fire, water, and called down lightning on it.
The rest of the dream was me and this other guy hunting demons in the forest, and I shifted into Werewolf form for a while and killed off skeletons and zombie looking creatures. Pretty epic dream to break my dryspell. I have a feeling, in retrospect, that maybe fighting off all these demons, and the guy helping me, was symbolic of me fighting off the dryspell I've been having.
Either way, I've got the ball rolling again, and I've even got WILD working for me, and my energy for dreaming is full renewed!
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