Jakob's Awesome WILD Technique

[Empedocles]

Hello fellow Oneironauts! I haven't posted in a while because I was frustrated that so many of my posts were lost in the crash. However, having another very successful WILD this morning simply made me want to write this tutorial. I will now introduce you to my WILD technique. This is what always works for me. In other words, whenever I enter Sleep Paralysis, it is a guaranteed lucid dream for me. Now some people might disagree with certain parts of this tutorial, therefore I say in advance that this is my technique, and what works for me might not work for everyone else. This is how I do it. 1.) I sleep for about 5 - 6 hours. Then I get out of bed, and stay awake for only a few minutes (not long). This period needs to be just so much that it doesn't completely awaken me and prevent me from easily falling asleep, and it also can't be too short so that I fall asleep as soon as I hit the pillow. This is very important, because my mind needs to be aware as my body drifts into REM. 2.) After this short period, I go back to bed. I lie down on the side, either left or right side, but lying on my back and doing this hasn't worked for me so far. Then I close my eyes and relax. Now I focus on my entire body, feeling my body, and I especially concentrate on my head. This is key for me. I focus on my head, the entire skull. What I think about while I focus on my body is not entering a Lucid Dream, but entering Sleep Paralysis instead. After a couple of minutes, a feeling of heaviness in my whole body starts to happen. This feeling starts to focus on my head as I drift further into sleep. I concentrate on my head and all the heaviness that I experience. A few moments into this, I will feel intense pressure in my head along with noises and vibrating sensations, and at this point, I will already be in sleep paralysis. 3.) I am in Sleep Paralysis. I can't move. I experience the feeling of my head vibrating violently and sometimes even banging against the pillow. There is also a very very loud noise, kind of like a machine gun going off in my room. Sometimes I feel vibrations throughout my in whole body during this. A long time ago I had to keep reminding myself that this is not real and can't hurt me, but now I just find it funny. While my head is vibrating like crazy and this loud noise banging into my years, I do the following: I visualize exactly what I would see if I were to open my eyes in real life. This means that I focus exactly on the position I fell asleep in, and I visualize what object or objects I would see if I were to open my eyes to get out of bed. If I am on my right side, I would see my wall after waking up. If I am on my left side, I will see lots of other things, closet, chair, lamp, window, etc. In other words, during these hallucinations in Sleep Paralysis I focus on waking up in the dream version of my bedroom. I visualize seeing my room from the exact position / perspective that I fell asleep in, and I think about nothing else. Maybe 10 to 15 seconds later, I start to see it literally become alive. The image of what I would see if I were to open my eyes becomes clearer and clearer. A few moments later, it becomes very vivid. At this point, I simply "feel" that I am there, and I move my dream body. I move, and I get up out of bed. I am now in a dream! Tips: 1.) Once the SP hallucinations begin, do not let your mind wander. If you think about anything else other than entering the dream version of your bedroom, it only takes a few seconds to fail at this. You will be in a non-lucid dream and won't even know it. Only visualize seeing your room from the exact position you fell asleep in, and think about nothing else. 2.) Always do a reality check after "waking up" from a "failed WILD." Many false awakenings can occur during these attempts, so if you think you failed to enter a dream, do a reality check to make sure. 3.) Do not be scared by Sleep Paralysis. It cannot harm you in any way. Remind yourself over and over again that the hallucinations you experience are not real. At this point you should be happy about the fact that a lucid dream is only a few seconds away. 4.) Do not attempt this at the beginning of the night, because that would be completely useless. You are not entering REM at the beginning of the night. You should sleep for 5 or 6 hours, as I said in the beginning. 5.) Don't be discouraged if it doesn't work on the first try. And that's what I have to say about WILDing. I won't get into all the "prolonging a lucid dream" techniques and so on, because I am still looking for the best method myself to prolong a lucid dream, so I will leave that for another discussion. As far as WILDs are concerned, this is the best method for me. The only time this has failed me is if I am so tired that I don't get into SP, so I simply have a non-lucid dream instead. As I said in the beginning, whenever I enter SP, it is a guaranteed lucid dream for me. Try it, and see what happens. Let me know. Also any comments or questions regarding this, post them in the thread. Good luck. Jakob

[Drax]

Your method for visual incubation is quite specific and unique I will have to try this tonight. Thanks a lot Jakob.

[Empedocles]

Your method for visual incubation is quite specific and unique I will have to try this tonight. Thanks a lot Jakob. Of course, you should sleep about 5 or 6 hours before attempting it. I should also note that I was never able to generate a dream scene other than my bedroom, which is interesting. It is really only this particular visualization of seeing my room through my dream eyes that makes me enter a lucid dream. I wish you best of luck. Let me know what happens. Edit: What I forgot to say. Some people have never been able to experience Sleep Paralysis, and I don't think this tutorial would be helpful to those people. It pretty much centers around how to enter a lucid dream while being in SP.

[That]

Trying this tonight. Will post back with results. I've only had real SP one time, I couldn't move but there were no hallucinations. I hope that's not a bad sign

[Klikko]

Sounds like a good induction method. I will try it out tonight

[Drax]

Yeah I've never been able to perform visualization before aswell, which is why your method interests me. I did give it a brief attempt last night but I still struggled, I wonder do you visualize the whole transition process of waking up and looking around your bedroom in one swift motion or is it a really slow and gradual build up of images. I struggle often with Field of View when it comes to visualization, does it matter for instance if I create a flat image of me waking up or does the visual have to encompass your whole field of vision. Those are the things I often get stuck with so I'm wondering how you visualize.

[Marton]

Very nice! I'm gonna try this. Your technique reminds me how i had my first and only "real" WILD. It happened by random, but ever since that night I've tried to do it again!

[Metallicuh]

I'm going to wild tonight. I can't wait to try this.

[Empedocles]

Yeah I've never been able to perform visualization before aswell, which is why your method interests me. I did give it a brief attempt last night but I still struggled, I wonder do you visualize the whole transition process of waking up and looking around your bedroom in one swift motion or is it a really slow and gradual build up of images. I struggle often with Field of View when it comes to visualization, does it matter for instance if I create a flat image of me waking up or does the visual have to encompass your whole field of vision. Those are the things I often get stuck with so I'm wondering how you visualize. The only thing I visualize during Sleep Paralysis is seeing my room from my physical point of view. I don't visualize any movement either. Eventually, as the vibrations and the buzzing are occurring during SP, this image of my room becomes clearer and clearer, and in about 10 seconds or so it gets to a point where it is very vivid. At this point, I already lost touch with my physical body. I can now move my dream body and get out of bed (my dream bed). Needless to say, I don't visualize anything from a third person perspective either. Again, what works for me might not work for someone else. I also feel the need to point out once more that getting to SP is really key in order for this to work. I don't know how to help those people who have never experienced SP, or those have problems inducing it.

[Awesomeness]

I have experienced SP. I have never attempted a WILD but I've experienced SP waking up sometimes when I intentionally wake out of a bad dream. I don't hallucinate or feel anything weird. It's like my body's super heavy and I can barely move, and I feel super tired and it's almost impossible to wake up. No vibrations or monsters or scaredness or anything. I'll try this tonight.

[Empedocles]

I had another WILD this morning using this technique. I woke up after 5 hours, and although I had some problems falling asleep again, after an hour or so it happened.

[Saurfang]

That looks like a good way to WILD. I'm attempting this tonight, hope it will be my first WILD. Thanks for a great tutorial

[ItsMEE]

This sounds like it'll work! I am so going to try this

[Empedocles]

I had another WILD this morning using this technique. I woke up after 5 hours, and although I had some problems falling asleep again, after an hour or so it happened. What happened was the following: The vibrations began, head started shaking violently along with the loud noise. I visualized my room, and this time everything took a little longer, perhaps 15 seconds or so. Then the image of my room became vivid enough that I was able to move my dream body. I got out of bed, but it seemed as if one of my eyes in real life was half-way open, and I actually noticed this in my lucid dream. Whether it was really like that I don't know, but a moment later it somehow fixed itself, and I was in the lucid dream as usual. I walked into the living room. It was day-time, just like in reality (it was about 11am). I sat down and observed the room, everything really had clarity to it. Then I wanted to turn on the TV, so I took both of the remote controls, first one for receiver, other one for the TV. Everything worked perfectly just like in reality. There was some boring documentary on TV, so I decided to browse through the channels. I pushed "List" on my remote to see what channels I have, and this was really funny. There were some hilarious channel-names, and it was really funny to me that I was laughing, but I had to control myself so that it doesn't wake me up. Now I don't remember the exact channel names because this LD later turned into a non-lucid dream, and I woke up around 13:00. Anyway, after browsing through some of these channels, I decided to leave the house. I opened the door, and then thought about going to my neighbors house to see what my dream-neighbor is like. I rang his bell, but at this point the dream carried me away into some non-lucid tasks. Nonetheless, the WILD was successful. Now I really need to work on ways to 1.) prolong the dream, and 2.) stop the lucid dream from turning into a non-lucid dream. Jakob

[Puffin]

Sounds promising, great guide! I'm guessing it's possible to experience other SP hallucinations while focusing on your head, though; in this case, do you just follow the same steps?

[Empedocles]

Sounds promising, great guide! I'm guessing it's possible to experience other SP hallucinations while focusing on your head, though; in this case, do you just follow the same steps? Yes, but in my case I always have the same hallucinations, which is a very loud noise and my head vibrating/shaking violently. Only this morning there was one thing that was different: I heard people walking in the living room, and no one was in the house but me. The steps are the same no matter what hallucinations you have. Visualize your room from the position you fell asleep in, and don't let your mind wander.

[Codename]

What do you think is the MOST important thing in this method? Im excited to start trying to WILD but also kind of unsure. I tried WILDing before but couldnt do it due to my lack of willpower in the morning.

[Empedocles]

What do you think is the MOST important thing in this method? Im excited to start trying to WILD but also kind of unsure. I tried WILDing before but couldnt do it due to my lack of willpower in the morning. Well, the most important thing is getting to SP. From there on I think it is pretty easy to visualize what I said in the instructions and just focus on it, while the hallucinations are going on. I am speaking for myself of course, and I can say that I personally have never been able to do a successful WILD without SP. If I can't get to SP, then I won't have a WILD.

[TheModernNinja]

I will try this! What would you do if you don't get SP after 1hr of trying? (Its what usually happens to me)

[Empedocles]

I will try this! What would you do if you don't get SP after 1hr of trying? (Its what usually happens to me) If you can easily fall asleep but SP doesn't occur, then I don't think there is anything to be done. Just try again another time. But if the problem is actually falling asleep, then perhaps you should try some relaxation techniques (deep breathing, etc.) The key is getting to SP. From there on, I think many people will have success with my technique.

[Empedocles]

Since I'm back on the forum, I thought it might be a good idea to revive this thread. For me it's a great technique... Jakob

[RebelSeven]

I've read a remarkably similar technique early in my lucid studies, though it was explained as an Astral Projection method. In that one the dreamer was encouraged to bring a book with them to nap time, and when they grew sleepy to close their eyes, but as best as they could picture the book in their hand, the rest is just how you describe it in your tutorial. I have had a handful of WILD's (let's ignore what percentage of success rate that is) so I feel qualified in saying that yours sounds like it has a LOT of potential in helping others reach a WILD state. I particularly like the focusing on the head idea. The most successful I have been in WILDing was using the Third Eye Technique in which you focus on the middle part of your forehead to ride out the vibrations. In any case, thanks for the tutorial

[CJC]

I can't reach SP. When you focus on your body entering SP, do you have to have experienced SP before to do this?

[Empedocles]

I can't reach SP. When you focus on your body entering SP, do you have to have experienced SP before to do this? Well, the problem is that some people have never experienced SP in their life, and I have no idea how they can induce it. I also don't know the reason why someone experiences SP and someone never does. The thing is, that this method really requires SP in order for the whole thing to work (at least for me). When practicing this method, if you have a quiet place and alot of time on your hands, try the following: Set up your alarm clock to wake you up in 10 - 15 minutes. That way, when you fall asleep without reaching SP, it'll wake you up so you can try it again. That's the only thing I can think of. Hopefully after 3, 4, or 5 tries, you'll be able to feel SP. Remember: SP always occurs, it's just the awareness of it that's missing. Don't let your mind wander when falling drifting off to sleep during this technique, but instead focus on your entire body, your head, your muscles, etc. Now this whole alarm clock thing just made me think of something, a possible induction method for false awakenings: 1.) Wake up after 5 - 6 hours of sleep, so you are ready for REM. 2.) Go back to bed, set the alarm clock to wake you up in 15 minutes. 3.) After waking up, go back to bed again, and once again set the alarm clock to wake you up in 15 minutes. 4.) Repeat it once more. 5.) After the third waking up, turn the alarm clock off, and go back to bed, BUT.... 6.) "Expect" that the alarm clock wakes you up in 15 minutes, although it's turned off now. It's possible that you trick your mind this way into having a false awakening. Either way, this was just improvised by me, it might work, it might not. But we're not going to go off topic here. So in any case, SP is an absolute pre-requisite for this WILD technique. Work on inducing (feeling) SP first, and then when you achieve that, this method will be a piece of cake. Because once you're in SP, that is actually lucidity in a pre-dream state, so you're literally one tiny step away from being in a real lucid dream. Good luck. Jakob

[CJC]

Well, the problem is that some people have never experienced SP in their life, and I have no idea how they can induce it. I also don't know the reason why someone experiences SP and someone never does. The thing is, that this method really requires SP in order for the whole thing to work (at least for me). When practicing this method, if you have a quiet place and alot of time on your hands, try the following: Set up your alarm clock to wake you up in 10 - 15 minutes. That way, when you fall asleep without reaching SP, it'll wake you up so you can try it again. That's the only thing I can think of. Hopefully after 3, 4, or 5 tries, you'll be able to feel SP. Remember: SP always occurs, it's just the awareness of it that's missing. Don't let your mind wander when falling drifting off to sleep during this technique, but instead focus on your entire body, your head, your muscles, etc. Now this whole alarm clock thing just made me think of something, a possible induction method for false awakenings: 1.) Wake up after 5 - 6 hours of sleep, so you are ready for REM. 2.) Go back to bed, set the alarm clock to wake you up in 15 minutes. 3.) After waking up, go back to bed again, and once again set the alarm clock to wake you up in 15 minutes. 4.) Repeat it once more. 5.) After the third waking up, turn the alarm clock off, and go back to bed, BUT.... 6.) "Expect" that the alarm clock wakes you up in 15 minutes, although it's turned off now. It's possible that you trick your mind this way into having a false awakening. Either way, this was just improvised by me, it might work, it might not. But we're not going to go off topic here. So in any case, SP is an absolute pre-requisite for this WILD technique. Work on inducing (feeling) SP first, and then when you achieve that, this method will be a piece of cake. Because once you're in SP, that is actually lucidity in a pre-dream state, so you're literally one tiny step away from being in a real lucid dream. Good luck. Jakob Thank you for the advice. I really dont mean to get off topic but what do you feel seconds before SP occurs. I feel a wave of energy that i think wil lead to SP but then it recedes. thanks