Thread: The 90 Days WILD Project

Originally Posted by Smuds

I guess I'll start tonight, but don't make fun of me if I can't do it D:.

Last night I tried the whole thing with an anchor for WILD, but I don't remember my exact thoughts. They were along the lines of "Why am I even doing this". Maybe I have a split personality as I sleep.

Well, I actually woke up last night. Stayed up for around three minutes instead of my intended 10. I sat in an uncomfortable position and dozed off. Didn't really have any dreams after that. Well, I mean I didn't remember any dreams.

Day 20 = No WILDing
Day 21 = No WILDing as well
Darn, too lazy to even do checks the last couple of days

Day 70:

Darn, i forgot to even try. I've been so busy with homework and stuff that i've been dying to play some video games. I think that led to a cool dream last night. I was going around blasting giant mechas with a gun that shot homing plasma balls that explode on contact. It was so awesome, too bad i didn't write it down. I finally got one of my papers out of the way. That relieved a little stress, hopefully it was enough stress that i can focus more on lding. But i still have a ton of crap to do.

Day 19: Finally did a longer 11 minute WILD. (When I went back to bed I was slightly hungry though). I did the 61-point relaxation technique and by the time I completed it I fell asleep. Lost control completely.

Day 21 = I also accidentaly WILDed, since, I went to bed and struggled to sleep and then I must have dozed off and woke up again at which point, I feel my body become really heavy along with some other signs of pre-SP, but, I tried to slow my breathing to slow my heart down which in turn broke me out of it

Day: 20
Almost hit SP and got excited........... ;p. Then I had a MILD from my WBTB-affirmations so I'm not sad. It was a quite funny dream, because I was semi-lucid and the only thing I focused on was to sustain sensory input so that I would not wake up. One time I put my hands in a pile of snow next to me. Naturally, it was fkn freezing. xD

Day 71:

Fell asleep unaware. So, fail.

Day 72:

Same as the day before, but i did have an extremely short DILD. I was trying to run from a very fast and long worm. I took off into the air, then woke up.

Hey folks in the 90 Days WILD Project! Miss me? I've been out for too long, I know, but I haven't left the project? For a really long while there I cut out on my attempts for real life stuff, but I was able to get some in during March and one earlier today.

Results? Well, I'll let you read up on how things have been going.

Day 61: 3.19.10 - Day 71: 3.29.10: No attempts, had some things to deal with that didn't allow for good attempts.
Day 72: 3.30.10: Attempt during afternoon. Listened to some music during, found out I slept through a few songs and didn't even notice, meaning I've been doing that during previous attempts as well without noticing. Continued attempt without music, but mind wasn't relaxed enough to sleep, saw no HI. Will make good attempts the rest of the week.
Day 73: 3.31.10 - Day 74: 4.1.10: No chance to WILD.

Day 75: 4.2.10: At long last, SUCCESS! Length: only a few seconds. Vividity: strong. Lucid awareness: great.

Direct from my DJ!

02.04.2010

66: 4.2.10; 8:55PM Part 2: First WILD. (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I attempted WILDing when I found free-time in the late afternoon. I did LaBerge's adaptation of progressive relaxation, deeply breathed many times to slow myself down and clear my mind, and had my first feeling of a floating sensation during the onset of SP. I was being pulled up from my body, and got a visual cue (an overlayed darkness enveloping everything behind my eyelids) that I was beginning the transition into the hallucination stage. I started having images appear before me, and kept myself alert throughout by watching them come and go, occasionally checking to see if I could still contact my physical "touch" sense (checking if I was awake or dreaming).

The images progressed into small scenes, one of the first ones of which being the most important: when I saw this particular image, I'd slipped - more like, it drew me into it and it developed into a proper dreamscene, into a lucid dream.

I was in the parking lot near the Little Caesar's pizza shop in my town, facing a car with two people near it. Both were men, one was much older, and one was getting into or out of the brown-coloured car. I couldn't tell if the second was just standing behind him while the door was open or if he was trying to drag the other out of the car, but I ran toward the car as my first lucid act, and became fully aware of my dreamstate. This awareness made me disconnect from the dreamscene as I got an initial excitement of knowing I wasn't awake, yet had been awake not moments before.

I was lying awake in my bed with my eyes closed once more, and knew that even though that was my first lucid, I should continue to attempt to have more WILDs before I moved and logged it in my dream journal. It only lasted a few seconds, but that was indeed and unquestionably my first WILD. I continued my attempts, but my mind was too excited (about my first WILD for the 90 Days WILD Project as well as for a new computer I'd be playing with soon) to bring about more lasting imagery.

I apologize for disappearing like that folks; my enthusiasm for this project and for WILDing in general has not faltered, even if I don't post my logs as often as I should. I'll continue my attempts as the DJ log said, to improve on WILDing so I can have one I can be truly proud of. However, for tonight I bask in the glory of knowing I got lucid with the WILD method!

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

Hey folks in the 90 Days WILD Project! Miss me? I've been out for too long, I know, but I haven't left the project? For a really long while there I cut out on my attempts for real life stuff, but I was able to get some in during March and one earlier today.
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I apologize for disappearing like that folks; my enthusiasm for this project and for WILDing in general has not faltered, even if I don't post my logs as often as I should. I'll continue my attempts as the DJ log said, to improve on WILDing so I can have one I can be truly proud of. However, for tonight I bask in the glory of knowing I got lucid with the WILD method!

Congrats on the WILD. No need to apologize, I've been really slacking off but that's due to being really tired from having early morning shifts

Day 22 = Woke up on clock, put it off and went back to bed

Has anyone here had any success trying to WILD 4.5hr into their sleep?

Thanks much! I could've sworn I saw a post from you earlier on this very page that said you WILDed yet your sig says otherwise....?

And for your question, I tried it twice, and for me it was awful. I was so groggy that even after getting out of bed and using the restroom, plus making extra use of motor functions in my arms and legs, I still was just too groggy to keep with it.

Day 21: Did the Jeff777 Sp tech and it worked nicely, however, I got excited as usual as I was about to enter SP. F*CK how do you avoid this? I try to calm down but I'm too frikkin excited because I've never had SP ;p

If you'd like a little of my advice, from my own experience SP really isn't anything special. It's an interesting feeling when or if you can feel it, but it's not all that big. I see a lot of people getting hyped up about SP and never once talk about the actual WILD they're trying to get. Just focus on that - don't get too excited on any point of the process until you're seeing dreamscenes, because even though the process itself is really fun (for me at least!) there's no point in letting premature excitement cause any blocks to lucidity. Good luck!

Congrats Clyde Machine! It's good to see a success in the project. And congrats BohmaN on getting to sp. My problem is getting to sp! If i could get that right, i would be ok.

Day 73:

I had to get up early, so i thought i would give FILD a try, but i fell asleep unaware. I have to get up even earlier tomorrow for sunrise service at church, since it'll be Easter tomorrow. I'll probably give FILD another try, since i won't have much time to sleep. I may make FILD my "have to get up early" technique, since i don't lose as much sleep when i try to use it. I would like to get good a FILD, but my new year's resolution was to master VILD this year. I know that you can mix and match a lot of different techniques, but i'm not sure if you can mix FILD and VILD. They are both variations of WILD, but i think they may be too different to mix.

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

Thanks much! I could've sworn I saw a post from you earlier on this very page that said you WILDed yet your sig says otherwise....?

And for your question, I tried it twice, and for me it was awful. I was so groggy that even after getting out of bed and using the restroom, plus making extra use of motor functions in my arms and legs, I still was just too groggy to keep with it.

ya, well, that post was supposed to say almost, not also, but, couldn't edit it
Day 23 = No WILDing yet again, put off clock and didn't even wake up on the second one
This is becoming quite a trend. I'm hoping to get a WILD tommorrow, my sleep will be delayed(overnight shift) so I have a chance to WILD early in the morning Any advice?

Day 74:

No attempt for me. I couldn't go to sleep til after 12:30 AM. Then my sister woke me up when she got in the shower at 5 AM and my dad was stomping, coughing, and yawning really loud with the tv loud by 5:30 AM. I laid in the bed awake until 6 AM, which was the latest i could get up. So definitely not a good time to WILD.

@dark_grimmjow Thanks, it's good to know I contributed to the success trend of the project, no matter how little it may be!

Originally Posted by BigFan

ya, well, that post was supposed to say almost, not also, but, couldn't edit it
Day 23 = No WILDing yet again, put off clock and didn't even wake up on the second one
This is becoming quite a trend. I'm hoping to get a WILD tommorrow, my sleep will be delayed(overnight shift) so I have a chance to WILD early in the morning Any advice?

My advice is to give it all you've got - you only need to get one WILD, so make it your best shot. Take no prisoners, make no compromise. Get your reward, get lucid!


Day 76: 4.3.10: Attempt made late at night, couldn't get close enough to sleep for HH, ended attempt and listened to music after 40 minutes or so.

Congrats Clyde !

@BigFan: I've been successful at WILD waking up 4.5 hours into my sleep

Originally Posted by Miomek

Huh, that's funny another LD for me.
I was dreaming about myself falling asleep. When i "did" i was lucid then i awoke in dream and tried to go back to sleep. Again i did and i was lucid there
It happend three times or so.

So kinda WILD in dream. I'm not sure is it WILD or DILD but it was fun anyways.

Oh, and there was one thing i was trying to do but it was just impossible
It's summoning the lightning.

Thats funny, that happened to me once! In the dream I went to sleep in a house and bed I have never seen before (I wasn't lucid), when I fell asleep in the dream, I had a dream inside the dream and was instantly lucid. Then when I woke up from that dream I was back in the bed I had gone to in my first dream, but I was in SP, then SP went away and came back like 3 more times, and during SP I would see a little elf staring at me, it was creepy and funny. But anyways, maybe if you fall asleep in a dream, and have a dream while sleeping in that dream, you become lucid instantly?

Originally Posted by AndresLD

Congrats Clyde !

Thank you!

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

@dark_grimmjow Thanks, it's good to know I contributed to the success trend of the project, no matter how little it may be!

My advice is to give it all you've got - you only need to get one WILD, so make it your best shot. Take no prisoners, make no compromise. Get your reward, get lucid!

lol, well you are doing better than I am.
It's easy to say that, lol, but, when I got home, I was just sooo exhausted, didn't help that my eyes were getting painful as well, so, I ended up passing out on my bed and had no chance at a WILD attempt
so,
Day 24 = EPIC FAIL

Originally Posted by AndresLD

@BigFan: I've been successful at WILD waking up 4.5 hours into my sleep

hmm, all my LDs were at the 4th REM cycle(~6hr) and I have yet to have one in the 3rd cycle. From my experience, I find that it's hard to be conscious and in most cases, to even get up and out of bed unless I'm really determined

Originally Posted by AndresLD

Thats funny, that happened to me once! In the dream I went to sleep in a house and bed I have never seen before (I wasn't lucid), when I fell asleep in the dream, I had a dream inside the dream and was instantly lucid. Then when I woke up from that dream I was back in the bed I had gone to in my first dream, but I was in SP, then SP went away and came back like 3 more times, and during SP I would see a little elf staring at me, it was creepy and funny. But anyways, maybe if you fall asleep in a dream, and have a dream while sleeping in that dream, you become lucid instantly?

hmm, from what people have said, Carlos mentioned in one of his books that sleeping in a bed in a lucid dream gives you a better lucid dream

Day 22 and 23... Schedule required highest amout of sleep possible, thus no attempt. Tonight I will attempt fully though.

Congrats to Clyde btw!

Sry for triple-post but I must write I attempted a nap-wild but failed. I found that when I'm quite alert it's impossible for the body to get past a certain stage of numbness. Body heaviness is connected to mind heaviness, thus you must be pretty tired yet concentrated at the same time in order to fulfil a WILD.

Originally Posted by BohmaN

Sry for triple-post but I must write I attempted a nap-wild but failed. I found that when I'm quite alert it's impossible for the body to get past a certain stage of numbness. Body heaviness is connected to mind heaviness, thus you must be pretty tired yet concentrated at the same time in order to fulfil a WILD.

Very likely and you MUST not control your breathing. I have had SP coming on and TWICE I have controlled my breath involuntry on my part, guess its a habit and as I was trying to keep the same breath pattern, I had to a deeper breath which broke SP. Anyone have any tips?

Day 25 = FAIL yet again, did feel some sensations in the morning which were to lead to SP but controlled my breath and ended up breaking it