How close am I? ;-).. WILD

First of all I want to say hi to everyone.
A couple of days I got aware that there is something like lucid dreaming as a friend of mine is currently reading a book about it.

So for the last couple of days I was reading a lot in and around this forum.
DILD:
So I started writing a Dream Journal the last couple of days and RC every 20min-60min (depending on how often I think about it). So I will see when this will eventually pay out.

WILD.
I've read that for most people this is the hardest. However I wanted to give it a try. Did that during an afternoon nap and before going to bed (I know most people say this is even harder/hardly possible). So I ended up always having the same result. I closed my eyes and while breathing out I counted and while breathing in I say "I'm dreaming" so like "1-I'm dreaming, 2-I'm dreaming ... I was wearing earplugs and obviously I wasn't moving, tried to relax and this stuff. So eventhough you hear your breath louder while wearing earplugs after a certain amount of time (sometimes this was already as I reached 40-I'm dreamin" sometimes three-times as long, I couldn't hear my breath anymore, however in my chest I could still feel, that I was breathing. As soon as I move just an inch I can suddenly hear my breath again. While not hearing my breath it then usually takes some time and my body starts shaking. There are two ways. Either I just seem to lose it or I keep shaking and I feel a bigger preasure building up in my chest (I'm still not really sure if it feels like I'm soffocating or if I do have too much air in my lungs). So it all ends with me having to breath out heavily and I can hear my breath again. Doing a RC after this confirms that I'm not dreaming. So, how close is this :-/?

In general I have another question. What happens (for those of you who had WILDs) if you don't manage to WILD? Do you just fall a sleep while trying or do you have to quit and just settle and "go to bed". Because for me there is no way to fall a sleep while (keeping WILDing) and keeping my mind awake. So at some point I have to decide to give it up and go to sleep.

Many thanks for your replies in advance!

I have only had two WILDS,so I don't know how good my advice is,but keep trying.You will figure out something that works for you.And for you second question.I have tried to WILD like..20 times,all failed(my two wilds were unintentianal .I never just fell asleep.I just gave up.

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Originally Posted by Kamilii

I have only had two WILDS,so I don't know how good my advice is,but keep trying.You will figure out something that works for you.And for you second question.I have tried to WILD like..20 times,all failed(my two wilds were unintentianal .I never just fell asleep.I just gave up.

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Thank you very much. I was very interested in an answer to that!

I tried to WILD last night, my first attempt.

I felt like a weight had settled on my body and then i began drifting in and out of random scenes in my head. I got really excited everytime i realised what was happening and they faded away and i was fully concious once again :( I've since been told not to focus on the random scenes and to just let them pass through my mind because I was entering the transition stage.

In trying WILD, i found i could move SLIGHTLY without it affecting me at all, for example i could swallow or sniff, so I don't know why your breathing affects you so much, maybe because it's all your concentrating on? Try saying and concentrating on "I will Reality Check and become Lucid" - works for me (:

Nothing happened on my attempt and I must have just fallen asleep naturally.