Thread: #1 Misconception about WILD

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

When you WILD, you need to shift your attention away from your physical body. Not moving will help this process, but it is not necessary. You need to ignore your physical body. 'Ignore' and 'Don't move' are not the same thing.

I think he explained it best...

Originally Posted by AspirationRealized

I think he explained it best...

I agree, I just tried it yesterday, it's hard to explain, but I imagined myself being on my bike, imagining what it looks like, imagining the feeling of driving around, sometimes doing the front wheel jump thing, and while doing it I tried to imagine what it would be like to move my consciousness...

Now, I've never successfully pulled off a WILD, neither have I had a successful Lucid Dream, but I still got the wave going from my feet to my head, where as my heart began to pump faster, and I got out of it, and began to feel the itches on my legs and hands again. (Which was completely gone while I was in my imagination.)

Cool. I'm going to try that when I wake up after ~5 hours some time.
And that was only keeping that in mind, no other long explaination of how to do a WILD, just that, it can look that easy!

And, moved.

This is interesting.
I have experimented with staying still and moving for a while now, and it seemed that whenever I stayed still, I started feeling total numbness, but my body never actually shut down. Which I think is because my mind never did that. Last night I ended up in sleep paralysis from within a dream... I had a false awakening and wanted to put my body to sleep. The only times when I have actually experienced SP was right after dreaming, or like last night, during a dream.
Staying awake but motionless got me to numbness and even complete loss of feeling of my body, but I was always able to move it without any problems.
As a side note, I'm doing this right when going to sleep. I don't do WBTB, I don't even want to WILD when I have dreamt, because my goal is to focus on my inside without long preparation.
Sometimes I just try to "actively disconnect" from my body. I try to focus on my inside, and my "mind's view", by which I do not mean the blackness you actually see.
Even without sleeping for the so-often-mentioned 6 hours of sleep, I sometimes start seeing dream scenes within a very short time. However, it also makes me lose my awareness and consciousness, and I usually end up waking up the next day - or sometimes I get my awareness back during a dream. It's like suspending my awareness.
Sometimes I have those dream flashes where I can move for a second, and feel, then it goes black again. It's different from actually moving my body, and I can actually move and get out of bed, because I'm not paralysed at all then. It's like shifting the movement commands into your dream-scene.
Say what you want, but I don't think that the body paralyses so you don't act out your dreams... I think your mind disconnects, and paralysis is more like your laptop's "power safe" feature...

Now I'm not saying that I go to bed and hop into a lucid dream every night. Far from it. I had very few WILDs, and yes, mostly in the morning, but as I said, I don't try it to often at that time... (maybe because it's usually nearly midday, or my alarm wakes me ... for a reason )

Yeah. Actually, when my friend and I began to LD he focused on WILD while I focused on DILD. When I finally decided to try WILD he told me that you can move while doing it unlike what some tutorials say.

The reason is because even though when you go to sleep normally & you naturally move and find a comfy spot, during those times you're not entirely aware of your moving. However when you're WILDing you're conscious enough to notice every twitch, and trying to STAY conscious the whole time. If you're conscious of it the whole time it would make it harder for your body to sleep. Just like how you wont fall asleep while you're walking even if your mind in a very meditative state.

Hmm, i have to admit, I don't think that staying still is entirely necessary either. I've tried to remain completely frozen on multiple occassions, and every time I'm able to stay still for at least twenty minutes. Every time I've attempted this I just get restless, and my focus shifts to how uncomfortable my body is.

I think that for some people, staying still might work, but for others, it doesnt.