Thread: whats the best way to prepare to wild?

I see your new, and you probabaly want to WILD because it's a quick way to lucid dream. I'm telling you it is hard, especially for new lucid dreamers. I would reccomend MILD or DILD, but since you asked for WILD I'll try to help.

Step 1. Get relaxed and make your enviroment as comfortable as possible. Also go somewhere at a time when there will be no distractions.

Step 2. Get in your bed and lay down, whatever way is comfortable for you.

Step 3. Have your anchor. (An anchor is something that you passively watch so you don't lose focus and fall asleep normally.)

Step 4. Go to sleep! You might have heard it can take up to an hour, because you have to wait for SP or HI, but you actually just need to fall asleep while just barely staying awake. (This is why you have an anchor.)

Step 5. If you did all that, and you kept a strand of conciousness into your dream, stabilize your dream and really get into it!

Thanks that helps alot!

No problem, hopefully you have a lucid dream soon! It took me almost 2 months, I hope it goes quicker for you!

I see you're a newbie lucid dreamer trying to WILD, so I'll share my method with you, which has worked for me. First off, you really, REALLY need to use WILD with WBTB (wake back to bed), or else its very hard. Set your alarm to wake you about 5 hours after falling asleep, (that should be the longest REM period for dreaming, although it differs a little from person to person.) THEN you try the technique of trying to fall asleep while staying conscious. Just wake yourself up a little, relax, lie still, and count breaths while saying "I am dreaming" in your head to yourself or something like that, (that's what I do, it works for me. An anchor is what you really want here.)

USA's technique is good and fine, although it helps a hundred fold to having just awoken from REM sleep. Do a little experimenting to find the best time to wake up, the best time to fall asleep, and the best amount of 'waking' to do after you wake up. I also recommend trying WILD when you know you don't have to wake up for anything the next morning.

Any experts here, feel free to correct my method if I said something very wrong. Good luck to you HigherDreamer! I jumped into WILD just the same as you did, probably for similar reasons. MILD and DILD are also good to check out, (and DIELD once you have a bit more experience with dreams, and more specifically, waking from them.) Happy dreaming!