First WILD.. slightly..

So last night I went to bed around 1 am and wasn't planning on doing a WBTB or anything but I had some pretty good dreams. What happened was I was sleeping like I normally would then all of a sudden appeared at the Calgary stampede (a local tradition) at first I had no idea what so ever that I was dreaming... I was with my best friend (Jack) and after we finished up at stampede we decided to get on the train and head home. While we were on the train we were cracking jokes doing whatever until all of sudden the train started shaking and I looked outside to see a monstrous tornado ripping through the front carts, the train then sped up (I assumed that the tornado was pulling the train into it) but it wasn't, it was actually falling off a cliff that was created by the tornado. At this point I thought to myself I am going to die and I woke up... When I woke up I jolted up just to realize I was in my room... Instantly I laid back down and started trying to wild, right away my body felt like it was in SP and I entered back into the same part of the dream but this time with the knowledge that I was dreaming. As the train was falling I decided to spawn wings and fly through the roof of the train. After this I flew to the surface which was a deserted waste land with the occasional rotting building. After this I just ran at an incredible speed and jumped to heights that I have never even been to. Then I woke up and almost shit my pants!

If anyone can tell me what I did whether it was a regular WILD or if its something else that would be appreciated..THANKS!

-Rubix

Cool dream! You had no idea it was a dream when the tornado hit the first time?

It sounds like you inadvertently had a successful DEILD (Dream Exit ...ILD). I'm surprised it lasted so long. My DEILDs are always really short. Maybe you still had a good chunk of dream time left. You must have woken from the dream pretty early.

Check out the MILD guide. It is similar. You wake from a dream for a few seconds or minutes, then picture yourself back in the dream, only this time doing a Reality Check and becoming lucid. You picture it as you are falling back to sleep, in the hopes that you will either directly reenter the dream, or it will stick in your prospective memory and score you a lucid dream later. It is the same way you remember to do something in waking life. You picture yourself buying bread next time you are at the store to lock the intention in your future memory.