Originally Posted by deltz
Hey sorry if these questions are a bit silly, as I am knew to lucid dreaming!
I wonering how a nap and WBTB differs, im guessing with the nap you can go directly into the WILD but if you wake up in early hours its harder to go directly into a WILD, meaning you have to stay up and relax first.
Also how would sounds around you affect the WILD process, such as computer fans and such?
REM generally takes several hours to kick in upon first falling asleep at night. As the night progresses, the REM periods become longer and more frequent. With WBTB, since you are coming off of sleep, your body will already be sufficiently relaxed to immediately start the WILD process. Naps are excellent times to WILD as well, but you may or may not need to perform some sort of relaxation technique before hand. It really just depends on how tired you are for the nap. Both times are excellent for WILDing and it really just depends on personal preference as to which you may like better. For WBTB, perform after at least 4 hours of sleep maybe a bit more. For naps, perform them 1-8 hours after waking in the morning. They can be performed later, but the longer you wait...the more difficult they become.
As for noise, as long as it isn't distracting and you can still sleep with it going on, you are fine. I sleep with a fan on most of the time. I also leave my ps2 on a lot and the ps2 fan generates noise as well. If it doesn't bother you and keep you awake, then it won't make a difference in the WILD process.
Originally Posted by Tripoli
Gonna try this gain tonight. Every morning though I get pumped up to do a wild, then by the time I wake up (4 hours from when I went to bed) I can't seem to get my sellf away from a bed for atleast ten minutes to become more aware instead of groggy.
I also find that after awhile of staying still I start feeling sharp pains on my head, my arm, or my foot to the point of driving me insane. I'm getting better at ignoring them but what are they? I feel like they are veins being closed off, but nothing it touching them besides my head on my bed.
Ah, you may want to try to perform your WBTB a little later than after 4 hours if you are feeling too groggy. I would try 5 hours next time. These sharp pains/aggravations are really the reason I discovered my WILD technique. If I start getting these pains, I roll over and change position and they go away. Then I just continue with the process as if I have never moved. You either have to completely ignore these and not let them distract you...or just go ahead and take care of them by rolling to a comfortable position. If you are distracted by them or "fighting them off," you are keeping yourself to active and may struggle to move further along in the process.
Originally Posted by weakamon
Ey, Guess what? I got my first-ever Lucid Dream. I woke up at around 2am but I was too sleepy to WILD, so I went back to sleep. Then, i woke up again, it was 4am. I went to the toilet, peeid, and return to my bed. I then said to myself:"I can't just let my sleeping time get wasted to nothing, I must have a result or progress". So I tried to WILD. There were a lot of external factors disturbing me: the fan, the damn dogs whooing,etc. But I used one external factor as an anchor: the ticking of the clock. I slept like I used to, the only difference is I'm listening to the ticking of the clock. I experienced SP. My body was shaking and a buzzing sound was getting intense. But I kept my calm. After some time, I opened my eyes. I was at the same room. But there were candles at every corner! I RC, The pinch-nose thing worked, the others didn't. I tried another round of RC and all the methods didn't worked! Disturbed, I wandered the house thinking if this is a dream, I tried to control the flame of the candle but it didn't worked. I asked my bro abut the secret pass, he don't know what I was talking about. And there I knew, it was a dream. After I asked my brother, everything melted and i woke up. I had my first lucid dream!
Awesome man!!! Not only was this your first LD, but it was also a successful WILD! Congrats to you and I'm sure this is just the first of many to come. Keep working at it and getting more and more experience. Nice job!
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