Quote Originally Posted by Minus View Post
I've decided to try and WILD without sleeping first, now I just need a good anchor. That first time I used counting but I kept losing count, it does work, just not for me. I'm thinking of clipping a peg to my hand, any thoughts on this?
Now I'm no expert on lucid dreaming but I have studied sleep cycles in the past. You see the problem with trying to WILD before sleep lies in the way sleep cycles work. When you first fall off you will enter NREM sleep rather than REM sleep (the sleep state in which dreams occur). Sleep works in cycles. The first REM cycle may kick in 1.5-2hours into your sleep if you are lucky, but this cycle is very short. As the night goes on, the REM cycles become much longer. So waking up later in the night allows you to WILD straight into a REM cycle.

Try this link http://www.dream-recorder.com/helpHT...eepPhases.html

I myself have just started trying to WILD. I tried to practice it before bed and as for yourself, I found it easier to concentrate then than at 5am. But you gotta try doing it at 5am if you want to increase your chances of LD'ing. Literally make yourself get out of bed long enough so that you don't drift straight back off but not so long that it will take you ages to get back to sleep. After 3 attempts at WILD I haven't LD'd yet but I have gotten closer and closer each time. Last night I found a window of opportunity after two waves of "vibrations" (which feel more like head-rushes to me) where it felt like I was lying in a different room for about 10 seconds, but I didn't know what to do with this and so it closed.

This is of course all just my noobish opinion but I just thought it might save you the anguish of further failures! I know something of the frustration you may be feeling!