First real WILD

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12-28-2007, 07:06 AM
pixiedust

First real WILD

The last week or so I've been so awful about keeping my physical dream journal - I'm going to try to catch up tonight - been having lots of vivid dreams, but no lucids, except for a brief WILD - but that WILD has encouraged me so much that I can actually do it :)

I laid down, put on my sleepmask, and began focusing on the blackness in front of my eyes. I felt my body getting more and more numb, til finally I could hardly feel it. I was getting quite a bit of HI, random images and scenes and sometimes words and phrases.. I focused on it while telling myself every few seconds "you're dreaming", and then suddenly, I felt this shift, and it was like I dropped out of my body. I know Clairity talks a lot about the "shift" feeling, and I always wondered what exactly it would feel like, and if I'd know it when I felt it - well, I definitely did. The best way I can describe it is, imagine a door, on hinges in a doorway. Now imagine that instead of standing up, the door is horizontal. Now imagine you suddenly opened the door - that's what it felt like, like my body just suddenly dropped out from under me and swung down. As soon as that happened, I noticed I was in some sort of dream scene, I was holding out a stick in front of me, and i was standing up. I took a few steps, and then somehow zzzap, I was back in my body. I wasn't even that disappointed though, because I had definitely felt that shift. Now that I know it's possible and I can do it, I believe even more that I will do it again, and pretty soon I'll be having regular LDs.

That shift feeling was so cool, though :) I want to feel that again.
12-28-2007, 07:52 AM
GODLIGHT

Congratulations on your increasing lucidity. I haven' t been around the board lately but my efforts to be lucid has never stopped.

I think persistence is the greatest factor in achieving lucidity. I also find that I have a much higher chance to achieve lucidity when I get a feeling of my previous dream before going to bed.

It's actually quite a strange feeling and my ability to put my self in that state varies greatly. Some days it comes very easily and some days I just can't seem to recall them. I've noticed that the more tired I get, the more I can recall them though and this may tie in to what you've been experiencing.

Good luck
12-28-2007, 05:55 PM
ninja9578

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Originally Posted by pixiedust

I want to feel that again.

Well you know what you have to do then right? :P Congrats
12-28-2007, 08:13 PM
Clairity

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Originally Posted by pixiedust

I know Clairity talks a lot about the "shift" feeling, and I always wondered what exactly it would feel like, and if I'd know it when I felt it - well, I definitely did. The best way I can describe it is, imagine a door, on hinges in a doorway. Now imagine that instead of standing up, the door is horizontal. Now imagine you suddenly opened the door - that's what it felt like, like my body just suddenly dropped out from under me and swung down. As soon as that happened, I noticed I was in some sort of dream scene, I was holding out a stick in front of me, and i was standing up. I took a few steps, and then somehow zzzap, I was back in my body. I wasn't even that disappointed though, because I had definitely felt that shift. Now that I know it's possible and I can do it, I believe even more that I will do it again, and pretty soon I'll be having regular LDs.

That shift feeling was so cool, though :) I want to feel that again.

:boogie: for the "shift".. it's great isn't it?!

Congratulations and may you feel the "shift" again very soon! :D
12-28-2007, 10:45 PM
pixiedust

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Originally Posted by GODLIGHT

Congratulations on your increasing lucidity. I haven' t been around the board lately but my efforts to be lucid has never stopped.

I think persistence is the greatest factor in achieving lucidity. I also find that I have a much higher chance to achieve lucidity when I get a feeling of my previous dream before going to bed.

It's actually quite a strange feeling and my ability to put my self in that state varies greatly. Some days it comes very easily and some days I just can't seem to recall them. I've noticed that the more tired I get, the more I can recall them though and this may tie in to what you've been experiencing.

Good luck

Thanks :) I agree that persistence is the key. In the spring of 2005 I found this site for the first time, and registered under another name (which I forgot my username and pwd to, hence me re-registering), and bought a couple lucid dream books (including Stephen LaBerge's paperback Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming), and for a while I did reality checks and ect, and I think I had a couple of lucids, but then I just stopped trying, because I had expected to have more success, and I think I was impatient. Now I'm back, and the difference is I'm sticking with it - and I DO feel a difference. You just have to keep trying - it may not happen overnight, but the more I try and keep at it, the more success I have. I even had my first WILD :) I'm definitely not going to give up this time.

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Originally Posted by ninja9578

Well you know what you have to do then right? :P Congrats

Haha, yes. Practice, practice, practice! :cool:

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Originally Posted by Clairity

:boogie: for the "shift".. it's great isn't it?!

Congratulations and may you feel the "shift" again very soon! :D

Yeah, it's a really cool feeling, and reading about your WILD experiences I think has helped me believe it's possible (that and they're just plain interesting). Anyway, it's early Friday afternoon, I've nothing to do today and am feeling sleepy, so I think I'm going to go read some lucid dream journals here on the board for a bit, and then try for a WILD. :)
12-29-2007, 02:54 AM
pixiedust

Argh, just woke up from my nap... had a dream, and there was a major dreamsign in it for me, but I didn't get it. I dreamed I was on Polk St. here in San Francisco, walking down the street. I could hear the Grateful Dead playing, and as I walked by a storefront I saw a pair of white boots and thought "that's John and Yoko's boots", lol. I kept walking, and then I saw a little kitten with a can stuck around his neck! Somehow I could still see his face. I picked him up and was trying to figure out how to get the can off, but it seemed I couldn't pull it off without hurting him. I held him in my arms and walked down the street, trying to find someone to help me, when my cell phone rang in real life and woke me up. Stray cats and kittens are a big dreamsign for me, I seem to dream of them often, and in my dreams I'm often trying to help them in some way..but I didn't become lucid this time. Grrr.
12-29-2007, 04:34 AM
Clairity

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Originally Posted by pixiedust

I kept walking, and then I saw a little kitten with a can stuck around his neck! Somehow I could still see his face. I picked him up and was trying to figure out how to get the can off, but it seemed I couldn't pull it off without hurting him. I held him in my arms and walked down the street, trying to find someone to help me, when my cell phone rang in real life and woke me up.

Aww it was sweet that you tried to help the kitty! :)

Better lucid next time!
12-29-2007, 07:35 AM
pixiedust

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Originally Posted by Clairity

Aww it was sweet that you tried to help the kitty! :)

Better lucid next time!

I will always try to help a kitty :)http://www.geocities.com/heartland/b...s/anicat10.gif

It's only 10:32 right now but I'm pretty tired....off to bed to try for a WILD.
12-29-2007, 10:08 PM
Clairity

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Originally Posted by pixiedust

I will always try to help a kitty :)
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/b...s/anicat10.gif

It's only 10:32 right now but I'm pretty tired....off to bed to try for a WILD.

What a cute kitty.. run kitty run!! :D

So didja WILD?