Thread: First successful WILD and it was Wild. Long. 2 Questions at end, please!

Hi Heather,

sounds like you are doing great! I guess most folks here would be very happy with this kind of progress.
As for your questions, I think you just need more experience to gain proficiency in WILDing. From this point on I guess you are mostly on your own. Every LD you induce via WILD will make you more comfortable and skillful and eventually you will only have to exit bed once and then have one long LD. Some people don't roll out of bed at all, they just jump right into the dream. I guess it's just something your mind thinks it needs to do somewhere deep inside. When I had my first LD I could barely stand up at all, it was a harrowing struggle. Three LD later I was basically just getting up like normal with minimal hindrance.
So, dream on and you will get better just by doing it. LD is a skill that has to be learned and honed to get better at it. Theory brings you far, but you still have to do it yourself and gain experience.

Stabilization works best for me if I spend the first moments or minutes inside the dream to really get myself into the presented dream world. That's also my bedroom for me atm I usually first walk upstairs (my flying starting point) in that gloomy darkness before I start to stabilize the dream. My get go stabilization rite is:

- nose pinch RC. It truly, physically assures me that this is really (!) a dream. No doubts left after it.
- check the wall next to me. Feel it, really inspect it up close. Even lick it or smell it. Get all your senses involved and really get into your dream world. You should by then also see a huge jump in clarity of the dream world.
- check my hands, my freckles on my skin. Recall and say my name, location and occupation out loud. If I have a specific goal, I also say it out loud.
- another nose pinch, for the lols it feels so cool.

And then most of the time I leap out the window and fly the perfect skies.

I later stabilize whenever I get that "the dream is about to fade!" feeling, most of the time it's a one second warning so I have to react really fast. I usally drop to the floor on my stomach and start to lick the tiles, carpet, whatever is there. It really gets me back into the dream asap. But I need to do it asap, or I will just wake up.

If I have good dream control I stabilize by checking the walls or objects every few minutes. It seems to prolong the dream a lot. I also nose pinch RC every few minutes as it seems to remind me best about my condition and keeps me from losing myself too much into the dreams plot.



Most important: "lol I won't bore you with my dream scenes. "
please do! I love reading what other ppl here dream. Dreams are so cool and freaky. This is what this forum is for - you should start doing your dream journals here. It's fun! And it is a superb exercise to keep your lucid dreaming up. This skill deteriorates faster than you aquire it. If you stop reading about it, stop keeping a DJ etc you will very rarely LD anymore.