I've been having the occasional lucid dream via DILD for about five years now, but only recently read up on them and tried to trigger them through WBTB/WILDing. I've had very limited success, mainly because I just can't seem to enter lucid dreams on my back (I lie there for hours at a time, no joy, often find my neck feels tense), but sleeping on my side often causes me to drop off to sleep too quickly, and when I do get near the transition the combination of SP and the vibrations often causes my heartrate to spiral out of control and I'm not always able to calm it down in time.

However, here is the really frustrating thing: a few years ago, before I'd heard of WILD, I woke up early one morning, decided I would get up after I'd hashed out some problems that had been on my mind using my internal monologue, closed my eyes, and started making arguments in my head; after maybe ten minutes or so, in mid-sentence, the dark of the back of my eyelids was replaced by the view of a street at night, full-screen and easily entered. I was literally in mid-sentence - no loss of consciousness at all, no deliberate attempt to keep still, but for some reason whatever part of my brain that governs these things decided I had lost consciousness and put my body into sleep-mode. The transition was silky-smooth: no itching, no SP, no vibrations, no hypnogogia… the street-scene came as a total shock. I was actually in disbelief that my body could decide that I was asleep while I was actively thinking.

Now, however, I'd really like to know what the conditions were that allowed that to happen. Has anyone else had transitions that smooth and that easy? Was it a glitch, or is there an art to it?

Particularly being able to chat to myself rather than blanking my mind would be really convenient. And I was on my back, too - I can't seem to get a LD like that now that I'm trying.