WILD Success: First WILD transtion
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! :)
Reading: Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
I have started reading Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming again (I have read it ~ 8 years ago) to re-cap the basics of lucid dreaming, and to get some ideas of what I want to do. I will attempt to follow the instructions in the book to increase my chances of lucidity.
Dream Recall
I have started recording my dreams again this morning, and I managed to record a pretty long dream upon awakening from a nice lie-in. I am hoping to record dreams every morning, and will give myself time and effort to do so.
WILD attempt
I attempted to enter a dream during a 45 minute nap without timers. I was aware for a lot of the time, but often slipped into unconscious sleep before awakening again and attempting it again. No luck this time!
Another Successful WILD using 10 minute nap alarms
This morning I had some time to have a 1.5 hour nap (which is the length of time I had when I first managed to transition). After around an hour of alarms, I was dreaming non-lucidly between the alarms, and in the final 10 minutes of the 1.5 hours, I managed to do a WILD! This time, I attempted to think for a bit longer on my senses. I found that moving around and being active gradually improved my vision, up to a point where I could make out quite a lot of detail and colours from my surroundings. I was more aware of my body, and noticed two different pieces of clothing at two points in the dream. I remembered some of the beginner tasks of the months, so I jumped in the air, feeling the strange gravity as I floated slightly back down, and I put my hand in my pockets of my jeans, in which there was nothing inside.
I found people that I could speak to, so I asked them some questions. The answers were quite generic, so I left half way though one of their answers to find a more interesting individual to talk to. One of my big aims is to talk to a dream guide, so I guess I was looking for a dream character that felt special. When I had found an interesting looking girl who was taking me somewhere, I woke up to my 10 minute alarm which was still on, so I shut it off and took a minute or two to re-enter the lucid dream. After re-entering I couldn't find the girl, but I was in a different room of what seemed to be the same location, dream wise.
Aim for April
As April is just around the corner, and I seem to have found a way to WILD more consistently using long naps and alarms (at least I have managed to replicate it once), I want to complete the list of beginner tasks for April. I have not yet completed the whole list for one month, so this will be a good thing to aim to do to focus my dream mind more on progressing my lucid abilities.
Dream Recall
I have been recording dreams every day for the last few days (apart from this morning when I first woke up).
WILD attempts at night
When I wake up in the night I attempt to do WILDs, but I fall asleep too quickly. I am hoping I can eventually stay awake longer when I awake at night to attempt WILDs.
6/7 Beginner Tasks Completed
I've nearly completed all of the beginner TOTM for April, just one more to go!
Although the 10 minute alarms have been helping me achieve lucidity more regularly, it does sometimes cut off a lucid dream and today I couldn't re-enter it. I am hoping, through getting used to the feeling of these WILD transitions, I will be able to do it during the night so I am not interrupted by the alarm. I haven't had any more of the strong vibrations and noises as I did the other week, but I would like to experience this again, showing I am aware completely through the WILD process.
