WILD experience + tips

[mparker]

Hey everyone, I was into LDing a couple of years ago, I basically spent about a month really working on it and reached a level of proficiency with WILDing where I could set an alarm at just the right time, wake up and go straight back to bed and into a WILD in under 10 seconds Sadly I kind of got caught up with other stuff and just recently got back into LDs (after watching Inception of course ) and wanted to talk about WILDs a bit, even though the topic has been discussed to death, because my experience might help a few newbies out. I had my first WILD this morning after about two weeks of trying since I got back into LD. I was setting my alarms around 4.5 hours after sleeping (I was sleeping late which was kind of messing up my sleep schedule) and trying without success to do a WBTB WILD. Finally, I changed a couple of things that apparently led to success. First of all, I slept a bit earlier and gave myself about 6 hours of sleep, which works better for me (this varies from person to person I guess). After waking up, I spent a little while trying to lie still, count in my head, etc. I'd been trying counting methods and the like for the last couple of weeks with no success. After a while, I was about ready to give up and just tried to fall back asleep. However, as I fell asleep, the whole time I was keeping my mind active by just thinking about what I was going to do today, what I'd like to do in my dream, etc. Next thing I knew, HI and SP happened and I was in a WILD. It started with a false awakening in my bed in the same position I fell asleep. I tried to get out of bed but couldn't, as my body still felt paralyzed. I tried to "roll" my dream body, which worked out a bit better (I rolled out of bed and lightly floated to the ground). I picked myself up off the ground and RC'd (nose pinch) and confirmed I was dreaming. The dream was blurry and fading so I quickly rubbed my hands together, and the dream solidified into a vivid, realistic dream. I then spun around a bit to stabilize but had some trouble controlling my dream body, but then attempted to teleport out of my room a little too early into the dream and unfortunately woke up. So, what I learned from this: Don't worry about any of the techniques (unless one works for you, obviously). Counting, anchoring, visualization, those are all great if they work, but they didn't work for me because I'd focus on them too much and not get to sleep. Your top priority has to be falling asleep. If you wake up at the right time, you'll fall into WILDs almost instantaneously because you're in the middle of a REM cycle and feel extremely tired, so it'll take no effort to fall asleep. Basically, get into the most comfortable position you can (I used to delude myself into thinking I had to sleep on my back to get a WILD, I had to wake up at exactly the right time to get a WILD, and so on, none of which is true), and just let your mind wander, but don't let it shut down or you'll just fall asleep. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes to get into a WILD. Oh, and don't try to feel HI or SP or whatever consciously. You'll know it when it happens. I used to freak out about seeing things or hearing voices in my HI but I since realized that my HI is surprisingly consistent. I always see the back of my eyelids fade to white light, lose the sensation of my bed, sheets, etc, and then hear a sound that can only be described as the exact sound a plane makes when it takes off the runway. Then my body vibrates quite a bit (which is awesome and lots of fun, don't be afraid of it) and I fall into a false awakening. All of this takes under 10 seconds, and my FA usually starts with me being paralyzed for a few seconds. Let me know if you have questions, this got a bit longer than I'd intended but whatever - Mike

[Rush2112]

This perfectly describes the way I WILD as well. I just start daydreaming as I fall back asleep and somehow my mind keeps daydreaming even as I begin to lose consciousness - however when I get to the point where the daydream becomes more vivid and I start to get intense full-body vibrations I'm conscious again. My HI is usually me flying over something accompanied by huge vibrations that feel so cool. One time I was flying over a field, another time it was a school. But then eventually I am back in my bed and my legs are floating up - a built-in RC.

[Elucive]

Nice. People always seem to forget your first priority is to fall asleep!

[Mandy]

I have been exploring this website and trying to figure out what i have experienced in the past. I am sure i have been LD'ing as i feel i can control things. But some other things that happen suggest at times its sleep paralysis. But when mparker writes about 'rolling out of bed' i can relate to this. One of the times i experienced something i was lying in my bed, i don't know what time it was and what state of sleep i was in, but i was lying there in my sleeping position and managed to roll myself off the bed. I somehow ended up under the bed. But then i started to float up out of the underneath and up to the window. It all started going a bit strange after that, i ended up on top of a building, i could then just float about in the night sky. It didn't last too long before i came round and was just lying in my bed.

[SilverBells]

Awesome guide. Am trying a WBTB + WILD tonight. Wish me luck!

[mattmuffler]

awesome, thanks heaps for this!! i tried just letting my mind wander last night, and although i didn't actually succeed, i felt the start of sp come on waaay faster than normal, but as soon as it started to happen i started going through the motions again of "sp, yup check. now wait for HI, etc etc" so that was a fail and i ended up just falling asleep but i'll try again tonight, with hopefully better results!!

[SilverBells]

No luck for me :/ Ive got a cold so it was pretty much impossible for me to lie still without coughing. In the end i just rolled over and went to sleep

[Raspberry]

Yeah, this accidently happened to me once. I was just going to sleep, when something snapped me out of it. I didn't move and in a few seconds light streaked across my eyelids (like a shooting star!) and I felt like I was getting pulled into something. Well I haven't had a successfull WILD yet so i got excited and ruined it But I'll try this! As long as i can become concious at the right time...

[mparker]

In the last couple of days I've had a great deal of success with WBTB WILDs by doing pretty much the same stuff I mentioned in the first post, but weirdly my HI seems to have become strongly subdued to the point where I wake up after about 4 hours of sleep, RC and prove that I'm really awake, attempt to WILD, and kind of just lie in bed for about half an hour and then suddenly realize that at some point I transitioned into an FA without even realizing it. I'm a bit disappointed because I'd grown to enjoy the HI and use it to recognize the beginning of a dream, but whatever, at least I'm having an LD every morning I guess this just goes to show that HI and SP are totally secondary phenomena, and to succeed, you need to stop waiting for them and focusing on them. Just focus on getting to sleep and it'll work out

[brettWp]

Very inspiring to read. Thanks for the tips, wish me luck tonight. My first goal, get to bed by 10:00....

[Liger]

Wow great tips, thanks! Never sure what to do when get half way through my WILD

[PercyLucid]

Its even more awesome from a DEILD. You wake up, don't move and vibrations will hit in a second, you will feel them for two seconds and fall back in your previous dream, fully lucid.