Sure-fire WILDS

[blade5x]

This is something I found to work very well for inducing WILDs. If you're on Christmas break, this is a great time to try this. ================================================== ============= Step 1 - Stay up late. 1) Stay up 2-3 hours past your normal bed-time (ie if you go to bed at midnight, stay up until 2-3AM). This is really important. The idea is to deprive yourself of some of your usual, but not all sleep. Step 2 - Wake up at your normal time. 2) Wake up at your normal time. For me... that's 7AM or so. But because you stayed up late, you should feel like crap! But if you feel refreshed (for me I can usually go 1-2 days in a row with less sleep and be okay, but in the third day the morning effects start to kick in big time) that's perfectly normal for the first or second try. The fourth step is really in the important step here. Step 3 - Get up out of bed and take it easy. 3) Stay up for roughly half an hour. Browse the internet? Just don't do anything physically demanding. No caffeine, no walking around, no nothing. Just stay relatively inactive however you can. I have my PC in my room so I just surf the net for a little while. Step 4 - When to actually get back in bed. 4) About half an hour in, you should start to get a "headache" or really start to feel the desire (physically) to get back in bed. This means you have been successful up to now, in that you've successfully deprived yourself of a significant amount of sleep. It's hard to describe what this actually feels like. The best I can think of is some kind of light fuzzy feeling all over? But anyway, this is the sign to get back in bed! If you don't get this, just try again the following day. This I find necessary to the next step, because otherwise I'll take way too long to actually fall back asleep. Step 5 - The oncoming WILD. 5) Lay down, and just think about your WILD. There's really not much to it. Within 5 minutes you should start to feel "surges". You should initially feel them "inside of your head" and later they'll spread to what feels like over your entire body. And because they should come on relatively quickly, chances are you will still be experiencing a very waking consciousness. Don't get too excited to here, because this will be beginning of the transition into sleep paralysis! You can actually focus on the surges to make them powerful and actually speed up the process. The surges will come in waves, getting more and more powerful each time. Finally, you will be submerged and fully experiencing the "vibrations". From there, it's about keeping your cool. Your WILL have a dream due to lack of sleep and lack of overall REM cycles. And because of that, it should be very vivid. ================================================== ============= PROS - Easy - Works well. The lack of sufficient sleep is what gives you more emotional headroom during the experience (you won't "wake up" as easily). - If you mess up, you've at least received a sufficient amount of sleep to function for the rest of the day. CONS - You're kind of messing with your sleep cycle (that's why I said if you're on Christmas break in the beginning). - Depending on how sensitive you are to missing sleep, you may crash in the afternoon (like me). Hope this helps some of you! Happy New Years!

[JP]

This is more of a WBTB (Wake Back To Bed) but still helpful for those who don't quite understand, thanks.

[blade5x]

Right. I forgot about WBTB. But, I haven't really found a good method of WILD that isn't some form of WBTB. The thing I'm really trying to stress here is the slight sleep deprivation. It's a day and night difference when I "physically" want to go back to bed, as opposed to just laying in bed in the morning because I'm feeling lazy. Or if I get a sufficient amount of sleep I just won't want to go back to bed. And waking up early (like at 4AM) doesn't work anywhere nearly as well as staying up late does. I believe it's because my biological clock is set to be in full-swing REM at 5-8AM, and not 3-4AM.

[Sam1r]

Great method...'d love to try it,but a little late for me,my one month break ends in two days :/ -sam

[nina]

And waking up early (like at 4AM) doesn't work anywhere nearly as well as staying up late does. I believe it's because my biological clock is set to be in full-swing REM at 5-8AM, and not 3-4AM. Well the most important part of WILDs, and the thing most people tend to overlook, is that you need to figure out what works for you. Everyone needs to find their own best time to attempt a WILD, whether that means waking up at 3am, 5am, 9am or any other time. The only way to figure it out is practice, patience, determination, and a bit of luck. Glad you found something that works for you!