A few (probably stupid) questions and an idea I'm gonna try

[9696banned]

1.'Ok, I am about to start doing WILDs and I was was wondering how long it took for you (if you can) to have them. I was trying but I only tried right when I was going to bed so without 5 hours of sleep. I thought the reason you slept was just because you are calm after sleeping for that long but I was being stupid and didn't really pay attention after I heard that.So then I'm trying to lay there keeping my mind awake until I give up. 2. Is it possible to have WILDs actually as clear as real life? I have had DILDs and they are a bit more clear then regular dreams. 3. Ok this is gonna be the dumbest of the questions. It's kinda hard to explain what I'm asking. I guess I'm wondering what is happening outside my field of vision during dreams. Is the world still there? I don't know exactly what I'm asking I guess. Anyway just a thought. 4. The idea is I'm gonna make a clay guy out of clay and then i'll bring him to life. And he will beat up bad guys I haven't been able to do anything very specific in dreams I barely flew once. So that's why I want to learn how to do WILDs. Cause apparently Deres more awareness and clearness and stuff.

[Hukif]

Eh, you answered 1 yourself lol Yeah, WILDs and DILD and be as real as waking life, for me DILD > WILD so maybe for you WILD > DILD? Some say it doesn't, though considering in dreams you can use other sense I think it is still there, I can sense the surroundings at least. Oh no reason why that shouldn't work.

[9696banned]

Thanks...... Also how do u make an energy blast.

[Burke]

Focus and imagine the energy in your hand or wherever you want it to be. Picture how it appeals to all five senses and expect it to be there. Then, just chuck it or do it however you want. They key is to stay focused on the energy, how it is perceived by all the senses, and expect it to work. This becomes easy once you start having a fair amount of LDs.

[Sivason]

Oh, let's see. 1) It took me about 2 years of wanting to LD and having little luck. When I turned 17 I improved quickly. I could WILD with in a year or so of that. Is that depressing? About 3 years? Look at it this way, I have now enjoyed 24 years of being able to WILD and DILD at an average of 2-3 each week. Sometimes much more often. I have no clue how many LDs so far. Probably no less than 2000 up to 4000, so it was worth the hard effort and trouble. This is a long haul hobby, don't get discouraged. You want that 5 hours sleep for a WILD. I fail more often than not trying with no sleep. It is not about being relaxed, as it is with brain waves in each sleep cycle. When you need at least a few hours sleep, your brain almost shuts down nREM. That is non-REM. You can have dreams and LDs in nREM but they are rarely vivid. After you have got your rejuvinating share of nREM the brain staarts to screw around in REM. Afetr about 4.5 hours you can start new REM cycle very easily. 2)I hear people say LDs are as clear as real life, but I think it is only vivid in certain ways. Depth perception is very weak in LDs. Senses like taste, balance, smell, and even hearing are almost gone, unless central to the dream or through training. In what ways is it vivid? I have carefully observed some vivid scenery while lucid to try to find out. Color can be crazy real kind of like someone ondrugs thinking they see more clearly. All the colors and every fine shade can be in an LD, but you can be hyper aware of them so they seem very beautiful. I have watched lucid skys that were stunning and looked kind of like Hubble pictures. I conclude that they are not as vivid in the big picture, but sight can be very very stunning. The sense of touch can be as real as life. I love being in rain storms in a LD. I actually feel the drops hit my face and roll down my neck. 3)It depends on if the story being enacted has elements that are implied. If you are dreaming about a burning building and a war gooing on around you, the stuff 'off camera' just kind of swirls around in vague shapes relateed to the story. If you look, some fitting scene will quickly stablize. However, if the story has no elements that influance what should be there, than nothing is there. Here is what happened in one LD when I was about 22. I was lucid talking to a DC of my mom. I was telling her that this was a dream when the topic popped into my head. I made a point of not picturing anything and quickly turned around. The scene was totally white,like the training zone in The Matrix. My brain had not planned on what should be there so there was nothing. I looked back and the scene with DC mom was totally clear, but everrything else was white. 4)WILDs are one option but has its down side. I can WILD with far more control than I often have in DILDs, you can keep your brain very sharp with luck and practice. WILDs are the best for completing specific tasks like your clay man. The down side is that they start out in pretty poor resolution. You need to bee able to stick with the dream and stablize for about 3 minutes before you start to get good imagery, and they rarely get ultra vivid until about 10 minutes in. I think this is because you are basically forcing a REM state that develops slow, so the first few minutes are in nREM which is never as vivid. 5) To do an energy blast it will work best to bbuild up to it in stages. First get to where you can throw a knife, easy to convvince your mind, but has a similar feeling to an enegry blast. Second learn to creat things in the palm of your hand. Start small like looking into your hand and knowing you will see your throwing knife, later learn to create a flame in your hand. Finally after you can do both, you will have learned more dream control, and can combine the feeling of throwing a knife with summoning something in your hand like lightning, fire or a color of energy. The biggest trick is that you learn the control needed by starting small and work up to serious magic.

[9696banned]

Thanks sivason that helped. I'm just gonna start doing WILDs the normal way and wait. Also, cool dream where your brain didnt know you were going to turn around and it was white.