You should try doing mutiplacation problems in your head to keep you awake but not to awake. |
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For the past month I have tried to WILD since I have got DILDing down, but I have hit a wall in my endeavor. When I try to WILD, I will be trying, but for some reason I keep on either wandering, or I just fall asleep. If I try to keep myself from losing consiousness, I end up being to alert and wasting 30-45 minutes of my time with nothing happening. I try this almost every day around 1pm-5pm. And the nights I am able to do WBTB I still lose consciousness. Any tips on helping me to stay conscious while trying to WILD, without me being to alert? |
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Last edited by Crow360; 08-28-2011 at 09:49 PM.
You should try doing mutiplacation problems in your head to keep you awake but not to awake. |
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In most of my WILD's, I get to the point of almost falling asleep, just before the point of dreaming before the vibrations and dream come on. What a lot of beginners do is read a whole bunch of tutorials online, each with slightly different methods but same basic principles, and many get too focuses on seeing HI or HH. The only times I have been able to have a WILD was when I ignored the HI/HH and actually just let myself fall asleep and became slightly aware mentally before fully drifting off, hope this helps. |
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Thank you, I will try both of these tonight and see if I get anywhere (Maybe I will get lucky, who knows) |
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i have horrible dream recall (im working on it tho |
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It may be an issue with your timing. You have a REM cycle every 90 minutes from falling asleep, through the night you spend more time in REM than in Non-REM with each cycle. Maybe you should try WILDing at a later REM period so you are less tired and less likely to lose consciousness? What's your sleeping pattern like? |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
Basically I fall asleep around 10pm every night and wake up around 6am every day. When I try and WILD it's usually around 3am-5am (with auto suggestion I am able to do this when I please without an alarm |
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Try reducing the time of your WBTB significantly, some guides here on DV advise 5 minutes, maybe even less. Last night I literally clambered across the room to turn off my alarm (positioned so I couldn't just reach across, switch it off and fall asleep |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
Thank you, I will try it tonight. Along with the other "stay conscious" techniques tonightt aroun 3:45AM my time tonight and get back to you. (I have an alarm set so just in case my auto suggestion fails to wake me up) |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
It was a failure. I woke up around 2:35am, ahead of schedule (when I auto suggested 'i will wake up right before the alarm goes off" I didnt know I would wake up 1 hour before it). I had went to sleep around 9pm so I was still good to go. My TV was on so I had to quickly turn it off. But still I tried. I sat there tryin for 20 minutes before giving up. After the first 10 minutes I rolled over, and then it went downhill from there, when i gave up I had a really bad headache. It's 3:20am and I am still awake, I will try again the day after tomorrow, and see if I can get some non-WILD lucid dreams accomplished before then. |
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