My WILD-guide

I've had 4 lucid dreams (one this morning, which was my longest and most vivid lucid dream :D), all done with this method! I thought I'd share it with you since it's a simple, logical (atleast to me :> ) WILD-technique.

This is how I do. I fall asleep around 23.00, I set the alarm at about 04.00 which gives me 5 hours of sleep. When the alarm clock rings I just press snooze. I let the alarm clock ring every 10 minutes for about an hour. I do this becuase the brain get used to to wake up after ~10 minutes, since it doesn't like to get woken up with a shock that is the alarm clock.
After about 1 hour of snoozing I simply turn of the alarm and fall asleep. And when you fall asleep your brain will think the alarm clock will ring again and wake you up to prevent the shock, where you should feel the SP and from there carry on into a lucid dream.
I don't remember who said it (someone here in the forum) but it also helped me alot: Don't focus too mutch. Just fall asleep without too mutch effort, because it will keep you awake instead of falling asleep.
I've always relied on that the brain will follow the wake-every-10-minute-pattern and that I will end up in a lucid dream. I've always let it happend by itself, instead of giving too mutch effort in to focusing. You just gotta be prepared what to do when you get that WILD-rush :D

I don't know if it's because of the waking up-pattern my brain starts to follow, but I've always had very short lucid dreams and 3/4 (my first one was very unintetionall) of my lucid dreams have been OBEs. Which is kinda fun, my living room is diffrent every time.

Hopefully I've helped!

That's a pretty cool technique, and it certainly sounds like it'll work.
I'll be sure to try it sometime. :thumbup:

I will give this a go tonight. So after the one hour of hitting the snooze button is up, will my brain wake me up automatically after ten minutes? And then after I wake up should I just lay still and not move?

Yes, that's the point :) I can't ofcourse guarantee that it will work. As far as I know it, most brains work the same way when it comes to alarms. All the times I've done it I instantly entered sleep parylisis, not realising that I had woken up before the SP. A friend of mine tried it this morning and he got to the sleep parylisis, thought not in to a lucid dream.

i will try this sometime

Great! Post your results!

I just want to warn you, it might be so that you're so tired that you sleep through the thing anyway, which has happend to me. I realised I was misleading when I said that it always made me enter sleep parylisis, which is not correct.

I'll be happy just getting into SP :). Only been there once before.

Ooh I might try this. Do you think it would work for naps?

It should :) Though it would have to be a long nap and it might be hard to fall asleep every 10 minutes if you havn't entered any heavy sleep before :)

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Originally Posted by CoolGuy

I've had 4 lucid dreams (one this morning, which was my longest and most vivid lucid dream :D), all done with this method! I thought I'd share it with you since it's a simple, logical (atleast to me :> ) WILD-technique.

This is how I do. I fall asleep around 23.00, I set the alarm at about 04.00 which gives me 5 hours of sleep. When the alarm clock rings I just press snooze. I let the alarm clock ring every 10 minutes for about an hour. I do this becuase the brain get used to to wake up after ~10 minutes, since it doesn't like to get woken up with a shock that is the alarm clock.
After about 1 hour of snoozing I simply turn of the alarm and fall asleep. And when you fall asleep your brain will think the alarm clock will ring again and wake you up to prevent the shock, where you should feel the SP and from there carry on into a lucid dream.
I don't remember who said it (someone here in the forum) but it also helped me alot: Don't focus too mutch. Just fall asleep without too mutch effort, because it will keep you awake instead of falling asleep.
I've always relied on that the brain will follow the wake-every-10-minute-pattern and that I will end up in a lucid dream. I've always let it happend by itself, instead of giving too mutch effort in to focusing. You just gotta be prepared what to do when you get that WILD-rush :D

I don't know if it's because of the waking up-pattern my brain starts to follow, but I've always had very short lucid dreams and 3/4 (my first one was very unintetionall) of my lucid dreams have been OBEs. Which is kinda fun, my living room is diffrent every time.

Hopefully I've helped!

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i spent months doing this accidentally before i even realised the potential of how it was helping me to learn lucid dreaming. was great to find other people using it and a great sign of the power of the subconscious

Will post results tomorrow morning :)

I can confirm that the "wake up yourself part by accident." part is true. I'm trying to FILD (Finger induced lucid dream.) and for the past couple days I would set an alarm for 4 AM and then just today I woke up a minute later before the alarm actually wake me up. I'm going to try this method but combine it with the FILD.