Thread: How to have an Instant WILD

Originally Posted by whitemagician91

personally, I found it's hard to "conscious awakening" without alarm, or not open my eyes upon awakening. Guest I should practice more.

From his experience of teaching this to others Mr. Raduga says that using an alarm reduces your chance of success by 50-75%. As he says, if you have a strong intent before going to sleep and practice you will wake up without movement. The reason for this is that too much external stimuli such as the noise from an alarm alters our state of mind too drastically upon awakening. When I first started out I did use a custom made alarm with a duration of ten seconds and a voice recording saying, 'Dont move'. It worked perfectly for waking without moving but the shock was too much so I trained myself to awaken without moving.

Originally Posted by mcwillis

From his experience of teaching this to others Mr. Raduga says that using an alarm reduces your chance of success by 50-75%. As he says, if you have a strong intent before going to sleep and practice you will wake up without movement. The reason for this is that too much external stimuli such as the noise from an alarm alters our state of mind too drastically upon awakening. When I first started out I did use a custom made alarm with a duration of ten seconds and a voive recording saying, 'Dont move'. It worked perfectly for waking without moving but the shock was too much so I trained myself to wake without moving.

I can reciprocate this from my own experiences. Strong intent before sleeping was how I first trained myself to recognize nightly awakenings, and I've successfully used that for a variety of other things including waking without moving. Furthermore, I've personally never had success using any sort of alarm (for the reason mcwillis has pointed out), so I'm inclined to agree natural awakenings are the way to go.

Ok I did not have a lucid dream on my third attempt =(
But this night I just fell asleep without using affirmations just to see if I still would wake up during the night, but I didn't. The next night I am going to start using affirmations again and hopefully I wake up this time.

I have read two of Raduga's books and found them to be enlightening. In fact I continue to use some of his "indirect techniques" and find success most of the time I use them.

This DREAM VIEWS forum provides a wonderful opportunity for those who seek to gain greater understanding and insight in developing their lucid dream skills. I have always firmly believed the idiom: "search all things, hold fast to that which is good". And that's why we are here - to learn and grow to advance and progress and to develop our abilities by discovering that which is useful.

Unfortunately there are those that would spend their time splitting hairs over what they feel to be ill defined terminology. Now, perhaps we can move on and build up and contribute rather than tear down and destroy...

Originally Posted by DukeDreamWalker

Unfortunately there are those that would spend their time splitting hairs over what they feel to be ill defined terminology. Now, perhaps we can move on and build up and contribute rather than tear down and destroy...

Yeah!

Frak those guys!

Them and their destruction.