New to All of this....

[Nilabimini]

Hi there! From what I have read so far in the forums many of you seem to be quite advanced in LD's even a lot of the newbies. A friend was telling me about it the other night, though it wasn't the first time I had heard about dream control, but I wanted to do some research on my own. So here I am. But now that I am here, I don't know where to begin. Today I tried putting my body to sleep multiple times as suggested, but every time I do, my mind ends up falling too.....this is very frustrating. I think I have narrowed the time window down to about 12 to 15 minutes before my mind actually falls asleep. But because of that, I was not able to take notice to my body going to sleep, I almost feel like my mind goes before my body does. Are there any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening? I don't understand how my mind could be so tired, I had already had a good nights sleep! I have also seen many posts on here mentioning "WILDS", embarrassingly enough, I don't know what these are. Can someone explain, or direct me to a thread that can? Thanks a bunch....any and ALL help/suggestions are appreciated....I'm really excited to try again tonight, at least for now my only goal is to keep my mind awake while by body sleeps.

[eppy]

Maybe start off with something easier than a WILD, like a DILD or a MILD. WILDs are where you wake up in the middle of the night (or before sleeping which is hard) and lay down and try to keep your mind awake while your body falls asleep and then you go into a lucid. I have been trying forever and I have yet to WILD perfectly. Try to use an anchor when you WILD. Some people use pain to focus on or they count or they visualize stuff.

[allensig3654]

hello and welcome to the forums . If you go to Tutorials and read up on some of the information, you will learn a lot.