Finally-I successfully WILD and met my DG
I had a rollercoaster with consciousness this afternoon. But if you are eager just like I am to learn and understand what happens during WILD, hear me out. I will give as much details as I can so you guys can also learn and use it to help yourselves:
I believe it was LaraCroft (If I remember her name right) that told of her story of WILD and how she was interrupted so many times that she was cursing. I loved her story!
But mine is similar. I went to bed tired --from sleep deprivation. I am beginning to think more and more that sleep deprivation does help. I tried to WILD, but I fell asleep. Phone rings. Woke me up. I was groggy and went back to bed to WILD again. I fell asleep. Phone rang again. Woke me up again. Cursing and groggy, went back to bed. No more WILD!! I just want to sleep :( So I went back to bed, but I was thinking of all the things I had to do during the day. So I had the perfect combination for achieving WILD--body ready to kunk out and mind was reeling with thoughts hence staying awake. I did pass out. I had a dream where I noticed I was doing something that I normally would not do in real life. This made me aware that I was dreaming. How come I can't become that aware during my normal sleeping hours?? Maybe because I wasn't so close to consciousness as I was during a nap where I was barely getting sleep. However, when I realized I was dreaming, I started to wake up. I instantly saw the dream world fade and green snow replaced my vision. I felt my breathing was fast and I felt the vibrations and pins and needles throughout my body. Oh no! I was coming out of REM!! I am so glad I did WILD in the pass to recognize those physical features. Otherwise, I would have awoken up more because I would be scared.
I talked to myself and said--"Stay calm. We're at REM. Just relax. Go back to sleep." I started to daydream the previous dream to help bring back those Hypnagogic Imagery. I immediately saw the green snow fade away into a dream world setting, my apartment. YES. I now know what the transition looks like from WILD to REM. I consciously witnessed my dream world surfacing. I have been trying to do that for a month. However, I slowly passed out by following what happened in the imagery. Without getting into much detail of the mini-dream, I was doing things again and realized again--"OMG I am dreaming again!" I ran to my den in my dream world. I did a reality check of seeing if my AC was in the kitchen wall. And it wasn't. "I am dreaming." I grabbed my Stephen LaBerge's book and said, "Stephen, I am lucid. This book does help." I looked at it and saw the text was all scrambled. "And my reality check proved!" I stood in my den realizing I was going to wake up again. I started to feel the physical features of REM with my body and breathing. I was not going to leave dream world again. I said, "Okay, calm down. I want to stay." And so I stopped focusing on my body and focused on the dream world.
I first said, "Clarity." Because it was a bit blurry. It became clear. I then said, "Stop!! I want the dream world to stop in its tracks. I am finally lucid and I don't want to lose anything and I need to think." Funny, now that I think of it. I then said, "I want to leave this apartment now. I want to go outside. Subconcious--take me out." A door appeared and I walked out into a beautiful neighborhood. I was at a mansion. I saw the sky so vivid in color and stars. I walked up on the front lawn in awe. "Hello dream world!" The street lights were too bright. So I said, "please turn them off." They didn't turn off right away and I worried if I had dream control. I said to self, "Please subconsious, I want them off." And they turned off. I walked into the street. I saw characters from my childhood cartoons and TV shows and what-not, walking about and riding bikes and waving at me. I headed up to one group. "Hello. I want to look for my Dream Guide. That is my subconscious. My inner self" Tsen (one of my adopters) have been teaching about Dream Guides and so I want to meet mine. The dream characters laughed. "Don't laugh," I said. "You guys are nothing more than images produced by my subconscious." They all were taken aback looking at me now with serious faces. A girl stepped forward. "I will take you to your Dream Guide." We held hands and she and I walked around in the beautiful world. I tried to do things. I said to her I wanted a better sky. But it was difficult to do. I also said to her I wanted to fly. She said why not. I couldn't at first, but she was flying. I focused and soon I was flying over the water with her. I turned to her and said, "You know, I am learning more and more of myself with being lucid in dreams." It then dawned on me who she was. "YOU are my dream guide." She smiled. I said, "I know it now because you are helping me learn of what I can do in lucid dreams and I am learning of my abilities."
Well, I don't want to bore you with the rest and goodness--I wrote a lot!
I am just excited and happy that I had a lucid dream after about 4 weeks from my last and experienced a good WILD.
I hope this can helps others too. I noticed--you can talk to yourself as you do WILD. Some people say you can't. But I believe WILD is different for different people. So guys--when you least expect it, be prepared to WILD :D
