WILD Attempt - Also a few Questions.

[skimaskdog]

Hey, heard about Lucid Dreaming yesterday and tried to start doing it this morning after I prematurely woke up from sleep and just continued on with my day. Anyways, my wild experience first I guess - I lay in the bed for like 20 mins, probably started counting 10 minutes in (wrong time i think), but eventually i couldn't feel my body etc, breathing became hard and I started to choke, and I began to see an array of lights behind my eyelids. I was enjoying the progress when some annoying noises outside distracted me and i began to be able to breathe properly again and just had a hard time focusing, I should have probably kept trying to go but i frustratingly just got out of bed and looked for earplugs, well I couldn't find any so i just downloaded a white sound track onto my ipod, unsure if it would even work, tried to do WILD again and ended up falling to sleep after reaching the 60s of "1 i am dreaming" I've only documented 2 dreams so far, and nothing I've written down about them really counts as a dreamsign. Now, onto my questions Sorry if they're somewhere on the site, i mind as well get them all done in one thread though. What is/are the best RC's to practice? Right now I'm just looking at a dot on my hand. Would white noise from an ipod (designed to block out the other noises for me I guess) be beneficial or detrimental? could it interrupt anything? What is my best chance at getting a Lucid Dream within the next few nights? And if it requires some absurd sacrifice, is there a stable and reliable LD Technique I can just use at night times? (Instead of naps etc, I really only take them after i get home from school) Also how do I learn to remember dream signs? So I can program myself to do a reality check when I see something out of the ordinary, how will I recognize it? Thanks, hopefully that's all of them

[Puffin]

Becoming lucid is more about awareness than RCing. RCs are worthless if you're not aware enough to test them, so practice looking around the day and spontaneously thinking, "hmm, I could be dreaming right now". Then do an RC. If you plug your nose in a dream, you are still able to breathe through it. That's a very reliable RC. Another is checking out a digital clock a few times in a row (this is useful if you have a false awakening and you've got a clock right at your bedside). Usually in dreams, alarm clock numbers change with every glance. Look at the clock and then back again. Do this maybe three times, and the numbers, if you're dreaming, will probably change. I suggest doing an RC every time you wake up in the middle of the night, and before/after you get into bed. I'd say DILD is most possible for you if you practice RCing and awareness throughout the day. It sounds like you are making good progress on WILDing too, though. For the dream signs, you just have to memorize what they are. When they begin to appear more and more in your dreams, it's easier to remember them.