A Few Questions

[Elem3nt0]

Ok i have been on this website trolling for the past three days and all day long reading different links and things people are saying and experiencing, but i have a few questions that are bugging me. 1. The second part of a reality check is the more focused check/test, which compliments your increased awareness. This part involves asking direct questions about the world around you when you suspect that you are dreaming. It is a tool by which to verify or falsify your suspicions of the dream state, often by attempting or observing something impossible (like pushing your finger through your hand) or by a gap of knowledge or memory. Ok so with that being said, the part that is bugging me is the entire part about moving on your own. Ok yes if you become lucid i can see how its imperative that you gained the ability to move your dream body around, but to actually do it in the dream when becoming lucid, what does that involve? Would you be moving as if you were in a real body, or do you just think about it? Would this make your real world body look kind of funny moving around, or is that the whole point of sleep paralysis? 2. I usually go to sleep at around 5:00 to 5:30 in the morning. Ill wakeup at around 11:30 or twelve, i never know why, but i do, but i also never get up, i go back to sleep until i wake again at around 1:30 or 2:00 in the afternoon, when i get up. By using the CANWILD technique, what would you say is the optimal time to set the alarm to run the 3 second sound clip?

[innerspacecadet]

1. You move in lucid dreams (or almost-lucid dreams, where you suspect you're dreaming) the same way you move in real life. You just do it. You won't look like a fool moving your body around - that is the whole point of sleep paralysis. Well, not to avoid looking like a fool, but to avoid acting out your dreams in real life motions. There are rare conditions where people fail to experience sleep paralysis, and people with these conditions can put themselves and others in danger from acting out their dreams. 2. Can't help you with this one. Never tried the CANWILD method. I rely mostly on DILDs, with best results from doing a 30-minute or so "wake-back-to-bed" (WBTB) after about 5 hours of sleep to get my mind on dream signs and reality checks.

[EdgeWizz7]

Just like innerspace says, you feel as though you are moving and in control of your real body. If I tell my left foot 2 move, it does. Sometimes depending how vivid my LD is, lets say its a semi LD I may get a strobe like effect while my body is moving but none the less I am in total control. As for your 5:30 sleep pattern, I am the same. I am a shift worker 2days then 2nights. After my nightshift ill get home 05:30am go 2 sleep and will always wake 11:30 or 12 without fail then ill nod and wake up 1:30pm or 2. Not 2 sure why but its quite funny to see your the same. lol

[Elem3nt0]

Just like innerspace says, you feel as though you are moving and in control of your real body. If I tell my left foot 2 move, it does. Sometimes depending how vivid my LD is, lets say its a semi LD I may get a strobe like effect while my body is moving but none the less I am in total control. As for your 5:30 sleep pattern, I am the same. I am a shift worker 2days then 2nights. After my nightshift ill get home 05:30am go 2 sleep and will always wake 11:30 or 12 without fail then ill nod and wake up 1:30pm or 2. Not 2 sure why but its quite funny to see your the same. lol Haha, yeah that is pretty damn funny, what are the odds lol

[Elem3nt0]

Another question, how well would singing a song that you know all the words to while your in the blackness waiting.

[Hidden]

I don't really know what you're asking... But if you're asking whether you could sing a song in your head at the beginning of a WILD... Umm, I don't know. xP If you had HH, you could probably direct them so that they would play the song.

[Elem3nt0]

LOL my bad i wasnt clear about that. I was refferring to the part about keeping your mind concious while you drift off to sleep.

[Hidden]

Where does the song come in?

[Serenity]

I guess the song would help as long as it doesn't keep you awake while you're focusing on it. You would do it right from the beginning of the WILD, and you'd stop once the "dreamlets" start rolling in (the dreamlets being those fleeting scenes that don't last more than a second. They are there and gone before you even really have time to focus on them). I haven't successfully completed a WILD yet, so I don't know how well you can take my word for it, but I've usually just focused on my breathing while I drifted into sleep. My problem with WILDing is that transition from external to internal focus, I pretty much fail at it consistently If you can make it work with a song, let us know!