My first attempt at WILD - success?
First a little background, this is my first post. I have always experienced low level lucid dreams with great frequency, a few times a week. But I always encounter obstacles to high level lucidity, mostly I get excited and wake up. I searched the net and found this site a few months ago. That night I had a Lucid Dream but again got excited and woke up. This happened a few more times so I gave up for a while. Anyway, this happened to me today:
I woke up at 6:30 AM after sleeping for about 7 hours. I got up and surfed the net for a bit and then remembered the Dream View site that I visited a few months ago. I read about Lucid Dreaming for a while and then came accross the WILD technique. I thought to myself: "I already have satisfied the conditions for attempting WILD (5-6 hours of sleep followed by 30 minutes of reading about Lucid Dreaming), so I might as well try it out." So I lay in my bed for what seemed like 90 minutes. I didn't see any HI or hear any sounds or anything so I bet that I lost consciousness before that part, but then suddenly I had a clear thought in my head that I was currently Lucid Dreaming and that the WILD technique had worked. So I tried to open my eyes only to find that this action seemed almost impossible, I glimpsed an alarm clock in the middle of my room and had an overwhelming desire to make a reality check and begin experiencing my Lucid Dream. But it was very difficult to rise from my bed, I felt tingling in my body and my head felt extremely heavy. With great effort I wrenched myself out of the bed, it felt like I was a spirit leaving my physical body behind. I wish I had turned to look at the bed after I got up, I think I might have seen my body there, oh well, next time I guess. I did an RC with my alarm clock, confirmed I was dreaming and jumped out my window to go explore my dream. I woke up pretty soon after doing some flying.
So I did not experience any of the HI or dream fragments that are supposed to come to you while falling into a dream state, but I did get an LD and it was weird because it was the first time I had an LD that was not a DILD. All of my other LDs came from me figuring out that I was dreaming during the dream. But this time the very FIRST thing that happened to me was a clear thought : "It worked, I am Lucid Dreaming". So was this WILD working for me in a unique way? I definately do not think I started dreaming first and then realized I was dreaming, I distinctly remember the beginning of the experience being my realization that the technique had worked.
