Yay a WILD.....now what?

[Draco77100]

So! Even though I have been silent on dreamviews I have actually been making progress on lucid dreaming. Even though my main focus is on DILDS, I am now spontaneously DEILDing probably once or twice a week. Here's my explanation. I will wake up for no apparent reason, and drift off. I will find myself in a dreamworld, and I have to force myself to take control. Otherwise I will know, but then go deeper and lose the small amount of lucidity I had. My problem is just that my dreams when I DEILD aren't long or clear like they are when I DILD. No amount of stabilization lasts long or seems to do much. I usually end up riding the boundary between the dream and waking consciousness. So what the crap can I do??

[Kraom]

Well, I'm not sure if you mean DEILD or WILD at this point. But I guess it doesn't exactly matter, they are somewhat similar. Anyways to answer your question, when I first started WILDing it would be after I woke up and went back to sleep and I know what you mean about being between dream and waking consciousness, and for me the key was really just practice. The more that I had over time, the more that the quality and length increased. I didn't really do anything to increase it right away, well, I didn't really do anything at all, other then build up experience. So, my advice, just keep working on it and you should naturally progress.

[Scionox]

Congrats on DEILDs! Like Kraom said, it can be that you just need more practice, my first WILDs and DEILDs weren't long and stable either. But maybe you need better timing on them too, there were times where a bit of change in timing of my nap increased stability and quality of my lucids, so it might worth experimenting if you have chance. Also you can be just overthinking and worrying about it, so it happens, at times the length and stability can actually increase when not worrying about them much. Either way, keep practicing and good luck!

[Draco77100]

My bad, since DEILD is just a type of WILD I just kept it at WILD, but more specifically I did mean DEILD. Huh, interesting. Thanks for your responses, guys. I will just work on it, do my best. And I don't worry about how long they will be. It seems so short because all my DILDS are usually a healthy ten or more minutes. Soon my DEILDS will be too! (Yes, that's me trying to be confident) thanks again

[MasterMind]

Lucid dreaming is a big self-fullfilling prophecy kind of practise. Most things are actually, I will use an analogy from a different hooby of mine. Picking up girls! If believe you are a worseless piece of sh*t that needs the girls validation to feel good then that will become your reality the girl will feel that ""energy"" or vibe from you through sub-communication. Although if you believe or rather know that you are enough and feel good no matter what, then that will be your reality. It kind of works the same way for dreams, if you expect your mind and dreams to be an unstable experience that needs to be stabilized in order to be experienced, then that will be your reality. And since dreams are a literal experience of yourself in a way, it is even more strong. This is the paradox, you got too much control and that makes you feel that you are not in control. The solution is to understand this truth. Another is to use dream control and to change your definition of a dream. I call my nightly experiences non-physical experiences to help me stay away from the assoication I got with the word dreaming. And even the association with the night itself. Because if a WILD is a process of moving your awareness to the non-physical, then other non-physical things such as a visualization can be seen as a dream as well and be done at any time. With this is in mind you can have alot of more freedom when it comes to dream control and WILD inductions. So the next time you got a somewhat stronger awareness of the non-physical, instead of thinking "Oh it's not stable I am not fully there yet", just recognise this a dream in progress and act the way you would do if this really was a more vivid lucid dream already. Because the stabilization isn't some magic thing you do only in vivid dreams, it's an act of concentrating your awareness on the non-physical which should be applied at anytime. This was kind of hard to explain in a simple way but I hope you get what I mean. Sweet non-physical experiences!