..and another one arrived

Dear everyone

I'm new here and made my first post yesterday but in an already existing thread within the newbie zone. So today I thought why not posting a new thread.
The following is what I wrote yesterday in the other thread:

"Hy everyone..
I'm new to this forum but the site is not new to me in general. I found the dreamviews.com community 4 years ago but wasn't concentrated and dedicated enough to follow what I would now call an "always returning intuition" that I should actually try to get into lucid dreaming resp. finally start working with/on consciousness.
Though I get easily distracted by a lot of things but especially my own emotions and thoughts, I think I bring along some helpful skills that are rather preexisting than acquired. I'm talking about a very good dream recall ability without practising and there are these returning things, moods, surroundings I could determine as dream signs. And yet I had only one lucid dream in my childhood which I can still remember.
So, I hope this is all not just a big gibberish of mine and I'll keep trying. (I only started this week and haven't had a lot of results yet)."

The last night wasn't special. I remember a "normal" dream, without any lucidity. But during the falling asleep process something interesting happened.
Instead of my consciousness/thoughts "fading" continually as I'm used to I suddenly experienced a fast and jumpy sorta movement of the mind as if it was contracting. It felt as if my mind/consciousness got smaller and yet I felt more expanded.
I wonder if anyone can share this description of experience. Well it wasn't that special, yet new to me.

(PS: Who doesn't know that it is kinda hard (or even impossible) to talk about non-physical issues...English is not my native language so I actually can't possibly meet all my requirements while expressing non-material issues.
It's fun though :)

Welcome.

I think i understand what you are saying. I often get funny feelings like that when i WILD.

Again, welcome to DV =]

Hey welcome to the forum.

Your writing is easy to understand so I wouldn't worry about that. Sounds to me like you were experiencing the beginnings of a WILD - you can search the forums for this technique, a lot are found in the Attaining Lucidity forums.

If you have any questions, please just ask.

Adam.

Welcome, Blue Scout...:)

I'm glad you decided to come back and give lucid dreaming another try.


If you haven't check out the Quick Start Guide at the top of the Newbie Forum. It has lots of useful info about this site and lucid dreaming.

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=36723

Let us know how it goes...

Thanks a lot for welcoming me!

And thanks for reminding me of the Quick Start Guide which I haven't yet looked through completely. But I read the DreamViews Site in one blow. It's very well structured and an easy to read introduction into the whole concept of lucid dreaming/controlling consciousness. So, compliment to the creaters...

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It would be possible that it was the very beginning of a WILD that just wouldn't go further at the time but I don't think so... and still, how can I know? Remember, I wasn't intending to attempt a WILD, I was just trying to fall asleep a little more consciously while repeating to myself that I will remember my dreams after waking up. So if what I described should happen again, how should I proceed? Just keep on concentrating on that state and trying to keep it or is there any "test" you can apply to check if what you experience is WILD-like?
Well I'm sure I'll find the answer on this site...