Thread: CWILD technique

CWILD is my made up name for a lucid dreaming technique. It stands for Caffeine & Waking Induced Lucid Dreaming. To participat in this experiment, simply try the technique and report the results, whether or not you attained lucidity.

Here are the steps:

1. Read the tutorial here on the WILD technique. This is very similar.
2. Follow the instructions there up to the point where you wake up from your alarm.
3. Instead of just staying awake for a while, fix yourself a caffeinated tea beverage. You don't want too much or you won't be able to fall back to sleep. I recommend half a cup of tea with no sugar (sugar could have it's own effects). A caffeine pill would be even better (since you would have to urinate later), but probably too strong.
4. Go back to bed and continue to follow the instructions for WILD.
5. Lucid dream???

This worked very well for me even not following the WILD instructions fully. Although the lucidity was unusual. You can see an example report in my dream journal entry for July 13, 2005 (~page 3). I'll try again soon and post here.