are there 2 different types of WILDs?
hi, this is my first time posting, although I have been having & reading up on LDs since September of this year. My question is: are there 2 different types of WILDs?
Initially, my LDs were all DILDs, where I spontaneously became lucid within dreams. Since then, I began concentrating on having LDs before falling asleep (often using MILD technique), and developed the ability to have WILDs. Mostly, I would watch the hynagogic imagery go by and listen to my tinnitus (quite loud, as I’ve played in rock bands for much of my life), and then I would experience the intense feeling of SP. This was almost always accompanied by intense visuals, an unbearable noise and a disturbing sinking feeling in my torso. It felt as though my consciousness was being dragged through my brain until suddenly I would appear within a dreamscape. And I’d be lucid.
Lately, I’ve experienced a different type of WILD. I’ve heard other LDers say that sometimes after waking from a dream, that they would try to immediately visualize themselves being back in that dreamscape, and often they would re-enter dream, only this time lucidly. I’ve begun doing this with some success. On a couple occasions, after waking from dream, I’ve tried to specifically visualize myself being in certain settings (in one case, a church, in another, a hospital) and was able to enter a new dream in that setting lucidly.
The funny thing is, when I try this visualization technique, I don’t experience the noises or SP feelings that I do with other WILDs. I am wondering why not? Is this a second type of WILD? or a different technique that leads to the same end result?
curiously yours, -j.
