Thread: When WILDing in NREM, how can you tell when you've actually 'fallen asleep'?

^^Agreed! This in my opinion is the most difficult aspect of WILD.

There’s always the inevitable need to steer and ‘manage’ what’s happening, as you said, Fryingman. As soon as I get anywhere near lucidity, I begin thinking about how not to mess it up. Even when trying not to do this, trying to ‘not try’ is in itself an obstacle. In fact, I've found that my best attempts were always impulsive or accidental. I would not really be concerned about whether it would work or not, and as a result, got closer to achieving it, than if I had planned it beforehand or thought too much about it.

Also, on the note of keeping your mind on the dream, I was in a lucid dream once which began to fade rapidly. By focusing, though, on an object in the dream, and completely trying to forget about reality or the fact I was waking up, I managed to bring the dream back to clarity.

So I thought, surely this is the same for a WILD attempt - putting all of your focus into the dream during the transition, or perhaps even trying to imagine that it’s already a dream, putting your focus into ‘bringing back the clarity’. The only real difference is the you must wait a longer time to completely fall asleep.