My first WILD

I'm so excited. I had my first WILD last night!

Actually, the night was progressing pretty bad. I woke up around 5am recalling a long dream. I remembered doing RC checks early in the dream, but they didn't fail, so I didn't turn lucid. And this dream had a potential to be much longer than my previous LD's.
I tried to WILD on my back but didn't succeed, I was feeling my hands go numb, started to see some hypnagogia images several times, but then it would stop.
Frustrated, I turned on my side, hoping for a DILD (that is how I usually get them - about once every 2 weeks), but still trying to WILD. Suddenly (actually not suddenly, but the realization was sudden), I started falling with my face down through layers of some abstract images. They would shutter as I went through, but I didn't feel them. I thought myself 'WOW! This is probably a successful WILD!". I landed in a room with some people, fully realizing I'm dreaming.

Until now I had about 9 lucid dreams (all DILD) and they all were pretty short.
This WILD is the longest lucid dream I ever had. I managed to do quite a few things (from a list of things to do in a dream):
- Convince a DC that this is a dream (to my surprise she was not very surprised, but she was curious)
- Fly (not very smooth yet)
- Teleport (not very accurately)
- Walk through walls (actually this ability came "built-in" in my dreams - In my first LD, after performing the "finger through palm" RC, I just pushed fingers through a wall and followed)
- Tested RC's - reading, looking at watch, looking at phone and finally "finger through palm" that I clearly remembered as not failed in previous dream.

Woke up trying to fly from the place I teleported to a place I wanted to teleport.

Congrats on your LDs! :D

Hey, that's great news, pulthar, and an achievement! I've only ever had DILDs. I'm curious, how long did it feel like you were in that dream and lucid for?

Hey zelcrow. I'm not sure how to estimate the dream length, so I might be way off here.
My previous lucid dreams were pretty short, they felt like maybe 5 minutes. Based on that, I would estimate this dream to be 15 to 20 minutes.
This WILD was a surprise to me. I was trying almost every night for 6 months now. I hope it's not a one time thing.

Welcome to the club :armflap:

Congratz! Amazing how WILD actually works