Hello all. Stumbled on this site a couple of days ago and I must congratulate the creators for their work...excellent job!

I was pretty into ld in college, especially after I read one of LaBerge's early books (actually I think it may have been his doctoral dis.). Had about a dozen or so DILDs over about 6 months, then interest waned, RC's waned, etc.

Now I want to get back into it and I am particularly fascinated with WILD. Never read about these back in the 80's. I have been trying to induce for 3 days now. When I was a child, I had severe "night terrors" as my parents called them. I realized some time ago that these were actually very lucid HI after non-lucid dreams, accompanied by some pretty heavy duty SP.

So, should be easy for me to WILD (or at least easier than average) given my familiarity with HI, SP, etc. On the first night I got very close, with clear SP onset a couple of times and some pretty detailed HI (mostly fixed images, but bright with a lot of detail). Also think I had a FA. But got stuck there.

Same story the last two days. Just got up from a nap attempt on day 3, again same events. SP comes really easy, within minutes. Lots of electricity, vibrations, whatever you want to call them. HI out the wazoo. But then stuck. I can feel my heart race with excitement, then SP stops just as I try to break out.

I think this may just be the excitement of actually getting close to WILD at such an early stage, so I'm trying not to get too worked up. I will keep trying until the thrill lessens and maybe then I can break through to ld.

I've read a lot of the WILD posts, but if anyone can give me some insight or advice, any would be welcome.

Glad to be here, and sorry for the long winded post.