Thread: WILD without prior sleep.

Hi,

I started lucid dreaming intentionally last year and love it.
The last few months though I've been pretty busy and haven't really been doing any of the things like reality checks, trying to WILD and keeping a dream journal (I stopped keeping a dream journal before though and it didn't really lower my lucid dream count).
Stoping the other things as well though did lower it pretty drastically.
I was getting at least 3 LDs a week not including linked but after stopping everything was only getting at most 2 a week, usually never any linked and many weren't as realistic as they used to be.

A couple of weeks ago however I tried a WILD, it worked and reminded me how brilliant the feeling of sleep paralysis can be.
I followed that with a LD where I just roll out of my body in bed (they are always the most vivid and realistic lucids for me).
I think these are what some people refer to as Out Of Body Experience's but I believe they're just very vivid Lucids.

The thing is this happened with no prior sleep and when I woke up had only been asleep for 15 minutes.
This has now happened quite a few times just in the last 2 weeks, so I've been reading about WIlDs and pretty much all the posts I've found on the net say that you do not enter REM sleep when you first go to bed until at least after 1 hour, and that if you enter sleep paralysis without prior sleep you will not get lucid.

The lucids I get from this are usually only around 2 to 3 minutes long (so not the longest but not the shortest by any means) and that's after around 2 to 3 minuets of the buzzing, floating sleep paralisis feeling.

In the majority of other posts I've read about this many people are put off trying to WILD and told out right that it wont work without sleeping first.
I now know that not only is this not true, but am finding WILDing much easier doing it this way and think that it should be encouraged.
Not only that but I'm not having to do any of the usual things (Reality Checks, Dream Journal ect.) and still having great success.