Thread: Sensations and types of entry into WILD

Awesome guide. The vibrations example describes my WILDs perfectly. Actually it was this article which taught me to "open my dream eyes" once those vibrations started (or after a couple repetitions), because I didn't know what to do with the vibrations other than roll over and pass back out into a dreamless sleep.

What usually happens for me now in my WILDs is I'll get 2 or 3 waves of vibrations during right after a WBTB. The first one cues me in that "Ok it's about to happen." Then I wait for the second one (feels like it only takes a few seconds vs. minutes), and I consciously concentrate them behind my forehead, eyeballs and eyelids (I know Xanous does something similar, but he focuses his on the back of his skull instead of the front). Sometimes it doesn't kick in on the 2nd wave, so I wait for a 3rd (usually doesn't take more than 3), and I can feel it lock in. Like the wave hits a high intensity but doesn't come back down. THAT'S when I "open my dream eyes." The first thing I usually see at this point is my room, and I'm in my bed in the same position as when I woke up for the WBTB. So it's critical at this point that I go ahead and assume I'm in an LD already. Otherwise I'll get bit in the ass by an FA. I get out of bed slowly and usually find several things wrong which let me know the dream has started. Sometimes nothing looks wrong, but I know I'm lucid because I'm used to "that lucid feeling" after all these years of doing it. I've discovered that if I don't want my first scene to be my stupid room everytime, I can incubate a dream scene right at that high point of the vibration wave, and it works. But it's a timing thing, because all this occurs so fast for me, I gotta remember pretty quick. I've experienced dream images, floating and sinking before, but it's very rare. The vibrations accounts for more than 90% of my WILDs.

So there's Ophelia's WILD Way in a nutshell.