I am so excited to say that this morning I had my first proper WILD! I have recorded some dreams as WILDS before, but this was the first time I felt the transition from wake to dream. It seemed to happen almost at once, there were loud clanging sounds and sellotape type noises and this came with strong vibrations. As I have not experienced this before I found it pretty scary, but I knew I just needed to try to relax and go with it as the dream was close! The shock and the sounds did at first make me wake up more, so they faded, especially as I thought I heard my alarm at a part of the noise. I relaxed and tried to allow it to happen again, and it did. I used my hands (at first through thinking so I would not move my actual body, but this later felt more like my actual hands) to stroke parts of my face to solidify myself into the dream. I wasn't able to see too well, only slight shapes and colors were there, but I mainly navigated through my room through touch. I observed my surroundings, taking in what I could, and went outside through the window and felt the breeze on my skin.

Although this was a short experience, I now have a good feeling of what to expect to have a successful WILD! I was pretty amazed with how aware I felt too, usually when I fall asleep I lose consciousness, but it felt amazing to keep it through the transition completely!

Technique Used

To allow this to happen, I used alarms every 10 minutes during a fairly long nap (only an hour or so after waking up from my nights sleep), and during the later naps I remember having non-lucid dreams when I was awoken. I was going to get up, but then I set a new alarm for 15 minutes from that moment to give it one last shot, and it was during this time that I had the WILD!

I am excited to try again! Now I know the feeling I really hope I can reproduce it and be able to continue to understand it better.

If you have any tips to how I can improve my vision in this sort of dream, let me know!