[NEWBIE]Where I am up to with Lucid Dreaming[Helpplz]

Hello everyone, my name is Josh and I am totally new to these forums =)

TL;DR AT BOTTOM!!!

I was just wondering if I could get some feedback on the directions I am heading and any protips would be great.

Here is what I have been doing and where I am up to:

I have been researching lucid dreaming and sleep paralysis for a good week or so now. I am comparing different techniques that I find so that I have the knowledge to be able to mix and match to make something that is effective for me.

I am currently attempting WBTB WILDs and CAN-WILDs during the night (Attempted two WBTB WILDs and a total of eight CAN-WILDs.

WBTB WILDs:
I will go to bed at about 10 pm and set my WBTB WILD alarm for about 4:30 am. So far I have tried getting up in darkness and going to the bathroom then sitting down imagining my dream scenes for a good 10-15 minutes. I the lay down and start counting like 100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95... And so far I just end up falling asleep with no luck (Maybe the counting just isn't keeping me awake enough).

CAN-WILDs:
I will go to bed with my 3 second alerts for 6:00 (Enough time for my WBTB WILDs), 6:30, and 7:00 am. I am still currently working on keeping my eyes closed when the alert goes off. So far I wake up eyes wide open (I say each night when i'm falling asleep "I will wake up, I won't open my eyes, I won't move." Still with no luck.

However my closest experience so far was just this morning after my failed CAN-WILD attempts.

I got up for a good 10 minutes and went to get a drink and talk to my father.
I hopped back into bed and started doing some breathing exercises keeping as still as possible.

After getting relaxed , for what seemed to be a good 10 minutes, I started to count down from 100 to 1 a good two times. On the third attempt I was getting very sleepy. I would often be like "72, 71, 70, 69, short blank moment... where was I at :shock:? 60, 59, 58.

Then I was at the stage where I was seeing random images popping into my head. For example, I saw a 8 person family van drive sideways into a forklift :panic:? I can't remember much else but it was all random like that. No sleep paralysis or anything. I kept counting down from having more and more blank moments eventually just falling asleep :(.
Did I miss sleep paralysis or is it after the images?

TL;DR

• 1. I fall asleep doing WBTB WILDs.
• 2. I can't keep my eyes closed doing CAN-WILDs yet.
• 3. I gave a random WILD attempt when I woke up and got to (What jeff777's free falling technique calls chaos theory?) short, non-sense images popping into my head then fell asleep :eek:.
• 4. Anchor suggestions to stay concious?
• 5. Read my whole thread lazybum. :banana:

IMO: I am super happy to be making progress with those images going into my head.

Thanks for reading this super boring post :panic:

Wow, I sure love all of your positive energy. Most people aren't normally that dedicated to it. You are are sure to succeed with that. The only thing anchor I know is by billybob in his tutorial right here: http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/how-wild-62282/

It is a good read, and so is his other tutorials. We are happy to have someone like you here, maybe you can make tutorials of your own if you get good enough at it. :)

Thanks Pepsiblue! I was browsing along a computer forum when I stumbled upon a very basic tutorial for a WILD and I just got so hooked with how intriguing sleeping and dreaming really is.

As you said I really want to put my all into this and hopefully someday have enough knowledge to be able to share it with people who are just starting out like I am now. Although I'm slightly lacking motivation to write down everything and not go back to sleep after a lovely dream. I will definitely trying though! ;)

EDIT: I just had my first lucid dream last night =) It is in my dream journal.

Have you tried MILD induced DILD? Look in DV Wiki. It's when you practice doing reality checks and awarenes technique during daytime, then you just repeat your mantra as falling asleep and know, that in your regular dream you realize that you are dreaming and have an LD?

This technique is probably easier than WILD, or you can fall back on it, when your WILD fails and you fall asleep.

The most important thing though, is to keep up your enthusiasm and belive that you can LD, and you will lucid dream:)

Welcome and good luck!

Thanks for the tip gab. I'm just going to do a bit more reading about MILD's now.