Thanks Ophelia!

Perhaps, I've tried WILD consciously a little bit before and what mostly happens is I fall into a deep sleep and can't recall most of my dreams at all. Same with MILD. So far, if I focus too much while falling asleep, my chance of recall is minimized than if I allow for natural occurrence of dreams.

My guess is that I don't relax enough while consciously trying to bring WILD about and thus am forcing it past the point where it'll be successful in my brain waves/state/whatev. That seems to happen in Past Recall Trances as well, for the aggressive 'I Want To Look' becomes greater than the passive act of looking and it muddles the attempt.

I did WILD last night, and the night before, and my dreams went down in frequency and lucidity - which is alright with me for now since I've been having compacted, overwhelming amounts of dreams and don't mind a break. I'm still reading through information.

Dream Snippet ---
Feb. 10. Non-Lucid. Robotic/Subconscious dream. Bed around 5:00 am.

This dream was hectic and packed full of information/details/happenings. I recall I was in a group of about four and we were doing ... something. There was a van at the end of a massive, sloped hill that was paved with a narrow road surrounded by trees. Inside the van, there was a couple with a woman who was in labor. She was giving birth. Closing the van up, I forget why, but there was some communication and we had to hide something.

So, they drove the van further up to nearly the top of the hill. However, this wasn't going to work because the hill was so steep that the van instantly started rolling backwards. I noticed this and fearing for the couple inside, I went around to the back and held the van to stabilize and slowly guide it back down to the flat part of the road as it rolled backwards down the hill. There was at least two-three miles of hill to go down.

By the time we got to the bottom, the woman had given a very messy birth inside and the couple was happy, though they wanted nothing to do with me at all. So, I continued on through a city/town/residential area to a house where I recognized a lot of people, though I could remember no names. In this house, there was a wide layout to the architecture, everything had two or three steps between rooms (so the hallways were elevated) and there was the constant sound of steam on stones. A lot of dogs lived here, running about, and I recognized a few of them as my old (passed away) pets. They were muddy, and the owner of the house didn't want them in there, but she couldn't shoo them away because she was blind and they were too fast to be rid of.

The couple in the van followed to the house, and for some reason, they had decided to produce another baby and left the other one in the car to do so. When I went to check, the baby was alive in my mind, but visually, I was looking at a baby doll in the car seat. I still made sure it was okay by seeing if it was resting in a good spot, before the dogs began to bother me a lot so I went to go see what they wanted.

I followed them around for a while... and I can't recall everything here because it happened very fast with layers of people talking at me and me having to do motor skill things. I ended up working with lumbar, building something that I forget what, and the owner of the house with her older daughter who also lived there, mentioned that they had found someone's sex toys and had put them up on the mantle if they were anyone's. I was angered by this, since of course, they were mine and promptly went over and retrieved them from a shelf mantle that was filled with lost and found items. One of my past pets accompanied me between rooms as I was trying to organize things... and a bit more happens, but that is where my detailed memory ends.

Side Notes: My mother contacted me yesterday to tell me that I had been in her dreams. This synchronized with the same time I was having my powerful LDs, but at the time that I couldn't recall the last few because I was in such a deep rest state. I met her in a house with light green carpet and talked to her about something very important, about my grandmother. This isn't the first time I've made a presence in my mother's dreams while coinciding with a strong LD on my side and then hear about it later.