Heya. I just registered because I've recently had an increasing interest in lucid dreams, ESPECIALLY the WILD technique. I often perform reality checks to increase my chances of having a lucid dream, but of the few lucid dreams I had I was only semi-concious and they happened on accident. As far as my progress on the WILD technique, I believe I'm making excellent progress. So far I've got to the stage where you feel vibrations (feels like a weed whacker inside you O_O) and your eyes go crazy, if I recall right this is the transitional stage. For me this is exciting, and the ONLY thing has stopped me from going beyond this stage is fear. I'm sure everyone feels this though, it's just a fear of the unknown. I'm not much of a spiritual person or anything, but one of the reasons lucid dreaming interests me (other than it's the closest thing to a holodeck I'll ever have ) is that it's probably the closest thing to death I'll ever experience without, ahem, actually dying

Well now I got that little introduction out of the way, I want to hear from some people how much potential to have a lucid dream they think I have, based on these facts:

I'm very young, I find it very easy to enter the stage where you become paralyzed and feel vibrations before I go to bed, I don't quite get enough sleep so falling asleep isn't a problem, I have pretty poor dream recall and almost never have dreams, I'm very confident of my ability to have a WILD and have been pursuing it despite my fears.

Another thing I think is interesting is that perhaps those Hypnic Jerk things are really you just accidentally falling into a wild and becoming startled by the sensations, causing you to wake up. I've had these before, mostly auditory ones, I don't even expect them and they scare the life out of me They usually sound like a balloon popping, or a bizarre electrical type sound O_o

It'll be nice to talk about this with some people that have actually experienced lucid dreams... I don't find many people who have, and few know what a lucid dream is.

EDIT Oh, and one more thing, what stops most people from having a WILD dream? :/