Is this a WILD?

[Savy]

Hi, so I'm new here. Apparently I've been lucid dreaming my whole life, but I'm not quite sure about the methods. My understanding is that a DILD is when you are already in a dream, realize something is strange, then realize you are dreaming. This does happen to me sometimes, more often when I was younger than now. Now, however, I don't enter lucids this way as often. I wouldn't say I maintain consciousness from the time I fall asleep, I am completely unaware of myself/my dream state for the majority of my sleep. However, once I begin a dream, I will immediately become lucid, no realization required, it will just be understood by me from the beginning of the dream that I am dreaming. Is this a WILD? It's weird because I don't wake up or anything, at least not that I'm aware of, but I also don't have a "realization" that I am dreaming. I am simply aware from the beginning of the dream that I am dreaming. This is how most of my lucid dreams are nowadays, I had three dreams like this in a row this weekend (I usually lucid dream on weekends when I can sleep in). So is this WILD? Or something else?

[mooseantlers]

Before you start dreaming, do you lose any mobility and hear strange sounds, feel strange things, and or see strange things, this stage is Sleep Paralyses. And is accompanied by WILD so one can consciously fall asleep

[Savy]

Uh no, I don't think so. It's kind of like black then suddenly a dream starts and I'm conscious from the beginning. It's as if I've been sleeping for a couple hours then as a dream starts I immediately become lucid. But during the dream I usually can hear whatever noises there are in my physical bedroom around me, and sometimes, I've mentioned this in another post, I can feel myself talking out loud (I sleep talk a lot). I'm aware of my body, I mean. I can feel my limbs and stuff and be aware of them and the dream at the same time. For example, if my mom walks in my room at the moment I am lucid dreaming, I can usually realize that she's in the room. That's the only kind "sounds" or whatever. I think you're referring to Hypnogogic Imagery/Hallucinations, right? I read about it in the wiki. When falling asleep, I usually do enter a kind of lucid half-sleep state where I have lucid imaginings (I wouldn't call them dreams, really), but I don't think I carry over from that straight into lucid dreams. (Does that even count as Hypnogogic imagery? They feel kind of half like thoughts and half like dreams, and I'm lucid) The lucid dreams feel much later in the night, and whereas I get the lucid half-sleep states practically every night, I only lucid dream on weekends and sometimes during school days. I'm just kind of confused about where I'm fitting in to the terminology here. :[

[KingYoshi]

These lucid dreams would be classified as DILDs. DILD stands for Dream Induced Lucid Dream. Basically, with DILDs you either become lucid because you are in a dream or with the help of the dream. You are naturally DILDing without the use of the dream itself. That is definitely a good thing ! A WILD is where you enter the dream state directly from waking life without ever losing consciousness. So, you go from awake to asleep and are aware/lucid the entire time. Hope that helped cleared things up a bit.

[Robot_Butler]

I agree with everyone else. That sounds like a DILD. Remember, these classifications don't really mean anything. They are just for convenience. From what you describe, I wonder if you are actually waking up for a brief second before you are re-entering a dream. Maybe they are DEILDs? Most people wake up for a few seconds naturally throughout the night, and don't even realize it.

[Savy]

Oh, I see. :] Yes, that clears things up. I'm not sure what DEILD is, and if I'm waking up I'm not really aware of it. Whenever I wake up and am conscious enough, I will always look at the clock, so if I'm waking up, I must be really out of it. I suppose it doesn't matter, really, but it's interesting. :p