Thread: Hi everybody!

I'm new to lucid dreaming and never knew it existed, i read up on some techniques and have found that my technique was the wild, i fall asleep really easily now and wild should be easy for me, i'm going to try some afternoon wilds to see how it goes and study some more.

Welcome, dreamscene...and good luck out there.

While falling asleep easily is a good thing, and the afternoon nap is a good time to try it and another good time is about two or three hours before you need to wake up in the morning. However, there is more to WILD than most newcomers to the hobby think, which is why it is usually not recommended as a beginning technique for most people - there are exceptions to this rule.

WILD just like any other technique requires one to have improved one's self awareness, short term memory, and changed one's expectations to accepting that one can be in a dream. This requires quite a mental adjustment for many people. Most of us go through our lives expecting that what we experience now is waking reality, and we do not pay enough attention, we do not question it sufficiently. One needs to adjust one's mentality to accept and expect lucid dreams. WILD is not just about falling asleep but also about staying aware while doing so.

Another important element to lucid dream success is dream recall. Do you remember your dreams consistently? How many dreams do you remember per night? We all dream several times per night and it is easier to have lucid dream success if one has good dream recall. In part this is due to if one has poor dream recall, it is possible to also forget a lucid dream, and one would not want to do that.

Please feel free to ask if you have any questions. I look forward to interacting with you on the forum.

Welcome to lucid dreaming and good luck,
May Freddie Mercury be ever in your favor!