Hi, this is my first post on the forum as you can see. Im glad i found this forum because i am very interested in these lucid dreams and I was always trying to learn stuff myself.
Let me start of by explaining the situation. Ive always been able to remember my dreams, i wake up alot in the night that is probably why. So as far as dream recall it is superb. When i first got sugery with anaesthesia (the stuff that puts u to sleep) my ears started ringing verrry loud before i fell asleep. Ever since then sometimes when i go to take an afternoon nap that will happen. It scared me at first and i use to try to move rapidly to kind of wake back up and become fully awake again and would keep happening that same day so i would give up. I looked up why and what it means and i came to the conclusion it was sleep paralysis and blah and people do it while trying to achieve WILD. So now when ever this happens i try to achieve one also. My last recent try once my ears started ringing i started counting in my head i counted to 100 and after that i cant really remember where it went. I know i had a dream but i think i had any control over it. This has happened several times except sometimes i see swirling colors. Any advice on what i should do to fully achieve a WILD or if i am and im not controlling or something like that. Thanks. And one more thing, say im having a dream and i realize i am sleeping and if i want to wake myself up i can, does that count as a DILD?