WILD from within a dream?

**RoseDream** · 04-05-2013 06:54 PM

I was just wondering if this has happened to any of you. It seemed quite odd to me. I had a non-lucid dream this morning, and in my dream I started to feel sleepy so I found a couch and got comfortable. As I started to fall asleep in my dream, I decided I wanted to have a lucid dream (not knowing I was already dreaming). I then proceeded to relax and I pictured a blue sky and a meadow and my WILD formed before me. It was the most vivid lucid dream I've ever had, and it was certainly different than any lucid dream that I've achieved by realizing that I'm dreaming. But since I did lose consciousness into a dream at first, was it really a WILD? It just seemed odd to me and I wanted to discuss. Thanks!

**gab** · 04-05-2013 07:02 PM

I had the same question a while back. There was a time period, when I did this often. Not any more, though. I used to tell people in regular dream that I'm going to take a nap now to have a WILD. Or I tilted my head to get a sensation of falling, which is a common way for me to get a WILD. Then when I "woke up" or got the falling feeling (all this in non-lucid dream), I was lucid.

But if LD starts from within a dream, it's always a DILD. No matter how your mind helps you achieve it. It could be giving us these scenarios (about WILDing), because it's familiar with it and knows, that's how we get LDs sometime. I would say, it's just a clue, same as if you notice something strange, or see a dream sign, or become lucid just out of the blue.

In any case, it's an amazing thing, this brain of ours and it's ideas.

**Scionox** · 04-05-2013 07:04 PM

Congrats on lucid dream!

I had numerous WILDs done from the dreams, and that's pretty confusing and trippy, haha, especially when i wake up twice in the end, and they can easily be as vivid as WILD because they bump up awareness to similar level. I think they do count as DILDs though, because WILD is about being/getting lucid from the start of the dream and saving awareness from waking state.

**RoseDream** · 04-05-2013 07:12 PM

Okay, that makes sense! Thank you

I think I like this type of dream the best, because awareness is at the same level as a WILD and everything is very vivid, but it doesn't take as long to relax or for the dream world to form.

**Sensei** · 04-05-2013 07:12 PM

I have "WILDs" in dreams a lot, and it isn't until I am awake I realize that I had fallen asleep in a dishwasher or something like that. I use that as a way to teleport now. Just using the way I WILD in real life, the way I fake WILD, and the way I teleport, it is very convenient since it just makes FAs turn to DILDs without trying.

**NyxCC** · 04-05-2013 09:31 PM

I have read that if you have a dream and then fall asleep in the same position in the dream as in real life during that time, it will solidify the dream and result in enhanced vividness. It could be that you have fallen asleep by chance in the same position. Have not experienced this myself but will try in future dreaming sessions.