I can't go any further? Help?

[namone]

Hey, I am 15, and a beginner to Lucid dreaming. My dream recall has been very well and very detailed...I even had a dream about lucid dreaming. I have been trying the WILD technique. This morning I finally THINK I got to Hypnogogia(My eyes got REALLY dark on the inside, then they would brighten, then things would kinda sparkle.) Anyway, I got excited, and it all came crashing down. My question: I can enter SP pretty easily, but then, usually nothing happens. I read that it has to be timed with REM sleep. So I tried last night RIGHT after I woke up from another dream, but I fell asleep again to quickly. I just need advice, how do I go from SP to Lucid. How do I stay calm ect.?

[gab]

You will more likely stay calm after experiencing few attempts, when the sensations are not so new to you. Untill then, I would say it's pretty hard not to get excited. If you try to do WBTB but fall asleep quickly, try to stay up little longer. You have to experiment with that, since it's different for everybody, but anywhere from 5-60 min. Stay up only untill you can think clearly, but you are still sleepy. Each sleep cycle is about 90 min long. Starts with nREM and ends with REM. Longer you sleep, longer your REM is. So if you get up for WBTB from a dream, you are in REM and when you go back to sleep, you will enter REM right away. WBTB, or just WILD is best to try after 4.5 hours of sleep. Hope this helps, happy dreams

[fOrceez]

One thing you will have to decide for yourself is if you want to passive-WILD or V-WILD. V-WILD entices visualising yourself into the dream where the passive WILD has you to watch HH/HI until you fall into the dream. Remember, what WILD means is to transition from waking state right into a dream while maintaining awareness. If you choose to maintain a level of awareness instead of visualising and let sleep take you, depending on if you balanced that awareness correctly you may; a) not be able to fall asleep (too much awareness) b) fall asleep and get into a non-lucid dream (not enough awareness) c) fall asleep and into the dream (the right amount) Don't stress out, WILD can take a while to perfect and is usually deemed one of the hardest techniques as it requires so much dedication and practice.