Good morning paigyemps,
There was a transition. Starting out I made myself completely relaxed. Then I started to imagine myself driving to work. The trick here was to focus on my driving; not the details of my environment. As I vizualized myself driving slowly in my neighborhood, stopping at every stop sign, using my blinker, and pressing a little harder on the gas pedal once I exited my neighborhood, details started to appear without any conscious effort from me. Little things appeared that my conscious self would never have remembered to add to the dreamscape. As the detail of the dream increased, my lucidity seemed to decrease. The only thing that saved me was that I was driving on a route that I know very well. So when I pulled over at the gas station that doesn't exist on my real drive to work, I knew I was dreaming. Lucidity kicked immediately.
If you are interested in WILDing, try what worked for me:
1. Relax as deeply as possible.
2. Imagine yourself performing a familiar task in a familiar place.
3. Focus in your task; not your surroundings.
4. As details, people, and objects appear, let them simply exist. Don't force anything.
(I found the best way to not force things is ask myself, "I wonder what will happen next."
5. As you are in a familiar place in the dream world, you are likely to see something out of place or that you know doesn't exist in the real world.
6. Do a reality check. (in the real world, any time I see that something has changed, I inspect it in detail while I asking myself if this is a dream. Example: girlfriend put a new mirror in the bathroom. I looked at it and touched the mirror asking myself if this was real.)
I hope this helps somebody. I'm about to try this method again. Wish me luck! I will report my success or failure within the next few hours.
Chung
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