Need help: how to directly wake up from a WILD

**momoshun** · 08-06-2010 04:09 AM

Hi everyone,

I have been wanting to get back into doing WILDs, but there is always a factor of forgetting the WILD once you wake up. My biggest problem with LDing is the lack of detail I am able to garner from the dream after I have woken up. I don't remember even having a dream until a good hour or two later. Just as it is possible for us to go from waking life to dream without a lapse in consciousness, there needs to be a sound method to go from dream to waking life without losing consciousness as well, so we can basically transport back to our real bodies and end our dream without forgetting all that happened in it.

So if anyone has a good method for waking up from a WILD, please let me know.

Thanks,
momoshun

**eppy** · 08-06-2010 04:28 AM

You make it seem hard, but for me atleast, it is very easy to wake myself up. I have never tried it, but most people say getting excited wakes them up. Try to close your eyes and open them a lot. Will yourself to wake up.

**Medevila** · 08-06-2010 04:44 AM

I learned a technique from a series of videos on OBEs and LDs. The way I typically wake up from a WILD is breathing very fast and and focusing on the breathing. This will make you breath differently in real life, causing you to wake up. I've never had a FA using this technique- which I consider a good thing.

Let me know if that helps!

**mattmuffler** · 08-07-2010 07:45 AM

ok so i don't know if this will work, because i wasn't actually lucid when i did it, but i had this dream once where i had just been tagged with a sticky bomb, and just as it hit me i was like "crap this is gunna hurt like hell, wake up!!" and just forced myself to wake up. although i was going in and out of sleep trying to wake up before this bomb blew my body to pieces, i still woke up. so you could just try simply waking up

**Wildman** · 08-07-2010 08:44 AM

Try to think of your (real) body, and just concentrate on opening your eyes or trying to move. Something I did once was closing my eyes really hard in the dream, focusing and telling myself that when I open my eyes again, I will be awake. Worked for me.

**momoshun** · 08-10-2010 02:48 AM

Thanks for all the helpful responses. Another question would be, how do you remember to wake yourself up after you're in a dream? I always try before I go to bed but end up waking up super late if I do a WILD coupled with a WBTB. Too much sleep (at least for me) erases a lot of the dream.

**Sean93** · 08-11-2010 08:30 PM

well this may seem a bit strange but i got a little freaked in my dream once, lucid dream that is and started shaking my head, within 2 seconds i was awake. or did i false awake? hm.