Thread: Kilham’s brief guide to WILD for an overactive mind… and musicians.

Hey guys, I’d like to share with you a few things that had helped me with achieving WILD successfully, it’s some kind of variation of the common techniques where you need a lot of concentration to calm your mind. With this one you can let your mind talk instead of shutting it up, you’ll still need some kind of concentration but it’s easier:

1.- This has to be done in the most silent space possible because you’ll use your inner hearing, you can use earplugs if it’s not possible to do something with external noise.

Remember that in order to achieve WILD, you have to follow the sleep cycle and go for it after 3-5 hours of sleep.

2.- Concentrate on your breathing for 10 cycles or one minute.

3.- After that, you’ll start focusing on the silence until you catch those small phrases that your brain creates. It’s not the thoughts of a problem of tomorrow/ yesterday…nor the scenes that you’re creating or repeating over and over again… it’s the small random phrases that you are not consciously creating, it something I call “a second layer of thought”. You can even hear them with random voices, first they’ll be as a memory, distant and difficult to comprehend, they are really RANDOM small phrases, examples: “take that thing out!”, “what a trouble…”, “ I don’t want that cookie”, but as you concentrate on looking for those small sentences, they’ll begin to be louder an clearer until they transform into the auditory hallucinations that appear before the visual ones. From the beginning to this point, you’ll just have to hear them and look for them, but not interact with them, just let them pass.

4.- After some more minutes of not interacting with them, you’ll begin with the rest of the hallucinations: body distortions and visual ones, until they reach more complexity to the point where you’re surrounded by 3D imagery, you’re in!.

***I would also recommend hearing to your favorite music during the day, searching for all the instruments that play in one song, this is something that would help you in step 3.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for sharing your approach!

Thanks for this.

You know, it's somehow funny that I find this post, precisely because this weekend I tried to WILD on the morning (no success), concentrating on "hearing" a song I know.

I did this because some weeks ago I entered dreamworld doing this, but it was a bit accidental. I was in the dark trying to sleep when I started playing this music on my head. Well, you can't really "hear" it... you just try to imagine it. But suddenly it started sounding for real, first very low volume, and eventually it went high, until it was crystal clear music. I was there like "wow, amazing how I can hear this so clearly"... and suddently I realized "hey! then I must be dreaming!".

So I plan on trying this music thing more. Maybe it's a good anchor because you have to focus on the song (one you know a lot of course), so you'll notice when your mind starts to wander around and you can go back to the song.

Originally Posted by Irreo

Thanks for this.

You know, it's somehow funny that I find this post, precisely because this weekend I tried to WILD on the morning (no success), concentrating on "hearing" a song I know.

I did this because some weeks ago I entered dreamworld doing this, but it was a bit accidental. I was in the dark trying to sleep when I started playing this music on my head. Well, you can't really "hear" it... you just try to imagine it. But suddenly it started sounding for real, first very low volume, and eventually it went high, until it was crystal clear music. I was there like "wow, amazing how I can hear this so clearly"... and suddently I realized "hey! then I must be dreaming!".

So I plan on trying this music thing more. Maybe it's a good anchor because you have to focus on the song (one you know a lot of course), so you'll notice when your mind starts to wander around and you can go back to the song.

Wow, that's a great idea!!, yes, it's exactly as you describe it, first low volume, or no volume al all, like a memory, and then it becomes real

This sounds like a fantastic idea - I will try it next time I attempt a WILD! Thank you!

This sounds like my typical WILD attempt. I've just unfortunately never progressed to the point where a 3D world develops. I've lain in complete numbness watching HI and hearing sounds for a half hour and I feel stuck there. Not really sure what the block is when everything feels so ideal.