Welcome to Dreamviews - what a great way to find the site!

A WILD is a lucid dream where you go from being awake to being asleep consciously. If you do this, then you're WILDing. If you just went back to sleep, and then realized you were dreaming while in a normal dream, it's not.

I've experienced the "getting up" dreams many times, they're called false awakenings and they can be useful for lucid dreaming. If you get into the habit of reality checking whenever you wake up for real, you could start reality checking when you "wake up" in the dream.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me or any of the other dream guides (members with green names).