Thread: **CrazyInSane's WILD tutorial!!**

so i tried it last night, i ended up waking up, rolling over and scratching my head like 5 seconds before the alarm actually went off so i had pretty much failed.

so i went back to bed and ended up having a lucid dream anyway haha

gunna try again tonight. ive got a lot of faith in this technique, considering all my other WILD attempts have failed, this seems like the one for me

God damn, I moved again this morning. Then I slept through the second one.

so I just got back from out of town, and I couldn't do try this, but I've learned something, every time I set the alarm (even if I moved, and just gave up) I would always remember around 3 or 4 dreams a night,and the 3 days I didn't do this, I remembered only 1 or 2 dreams, that were really "foggy" like I could only remember bits and pieces
and school is starting in 2 days, so I will be going to bed around 11, waking up at 6 , so I will try this a lot, but it helps with my dream recall
I will try it tonight and hope for luck, I've had one LD using the help from this technique
even waking up at any time during the night helps you have a better chance for a LD

Tried this last night for the first time and didn't move at all! But I got so excited my heart was beating so fast. So after a few minutes of staying still I gave up. Maybe i woke up at the end of REM or the excitement woke me up too much. And I slept through the second alarm. Oh well, will try again tonight and perhaps wake up at a slightly different time.

I've tried this method for a week. It either doesn't wake me up or it doesn't end up going off. Clearly not for me.

I don't have the same problem.I always wake up to my first alarm but not the second or third. But I always fail on the first one so it would have been nice to wake up to those as well. The problem I have is moving (a tiny bit) for this morning. I had a tiny tingling feeling on my head but that was it. Will keep trying though.

i didnt get an LD, but the alarm going off helped me to remember and journal a dream, which i tried to mild back into, but my gf woke me up. so it can at least help your recall.

I had a DILD after doing this last night! it was pretty short though, and i still haven't been able to WILD.

Attempt 4
Ok. This morning I made progress. I woke up to the alarm. And stayed still. I had a strong urge to swallow but resisted well. The alarm was set 7 hrs into sleep. I felt SP in my legs, up to my chest and my arms. My heart was beating quite fast. I kept getting distracted from my visualization. Kept wanting to observe what the SP is like. Every time I stopped visualizing I felt weaker SP. But I never enter transition. No weird noises. No HI. And it went for so long about 20 mins before I gave up and moved. Do you think this was an SP or was I just imagining it? I did have a blanket on me maybe that contributed to the feeling of SP. And when I broke away from it by moving, all the heaviness in my arms and legs also went. In my visualization I found that calm images were more effective.
And one more thing. Really important to have a quiet room without noisy air conditioning or the sound of your Dad grinding coffee outside.

This don't work like a WILD for me it's more like an EILD. Something External that make me more aware of my dream. I didn't have a lucid dream, but a great recall.
Next night I put a message in my alarm like "You are dreaming do a realitycheck"
and hopefully a dreamcharacter tells me to do so.

oh and I couldn't set alarms because my sister and nephew stayed the night and there was a thunderstorm and the power went out at like 8 last night and it's still out

ok so I've read all the posts to me, and the shortest time period for my alarm is a minute
and I have a whole plan last night
but i've found when I set alarms for 5,5:30am I don't wake up to it,so that is good because now I know when I'm in my REM sleep if I go to bed around 11 or 12.
but I DID have a long lucid dream last night, but I woke up because in the dream I was pushing someone, and then my arms were above my head and in the dream my harms went down and in real life my arms slammed down and it woke me up

Now, for some motivation! Here's some of my reactions to this technique.. These are chat logs, I sent these messages to a friend over IM. Just posting them here so you can see my results.

(8:11:49 AM) Kaolc: Well, I'm confused now
(8:11:56 AM) Kaolc: had two LDs tonight
(8:12:08 AM) Kaolc: But.. What confuses me is that they were both DILDs
(8:12:18 AM) Kaolc: I set my alarm to 6 hours after I fell asleep
(8:12:23 AM) Kaolc: But I never woke up to do the canwild
(8:12:34 AM) Kaolc: I think I might have slept through it, and then it triggered a RC
(8:12:39 AM) Kaolc: because I got lucid from the nose RC both times
(8:12:48 AM) Kaolc: And what pisses me off is..
(8:12:58 AM) Kaolc: Because I didn't wake up before the dreams
(8:13:07 AM) Kaolc: I'm having a REALLY hard time remembering anything at all
(8:13:36 AM) Kaolc: For the first one, I only remember that I suddenly felt a need to do a RC, although I thought "No way this can be a dream"
(8:13:46 AM) Kaolc: But then it was a dream
(8:14:05 AM) Kaolc: and this time, I decided to focus on senses and rub hands to start with to get everything clearer and so it could last longer
(8:14:35 AM) Kaolc: And I just know I ran around and did some random stuff, nothing important, didn't fly either, just some messing around.. But I don't remmeber anything in details :/
(8:14:50 AM) Kaolc: I remember that it felt like 3 hours at least, though
(8:15:11 AM) Kaolc: and then, at the end I felt it fading away, probably because my REM cycle was done
(8:15:21 AM) Kaolc: So I tried to continue with a DEILD by lying still as I woke up
(8:15:24 AM) Kaolc: But um..
(8:15:28 AM) Kaolc: Then I don't remember a thing
(8:15:42 AM) Kaolc: I don't think I woke up, but I because non lucid anyways
(8:16:35 AM) Kaolc: then I remember later in the night (I think? Maybe I DEILDed and don't remember) well anyways, I did another nose RC and it was a dream again, did the same hand rubbing and that, continued the LD doing nothing important just like the last one, but this one only lasted 30 minutes
(8:16:53 AM) Kaolc: But what really drives me crazy is that I don't remember any of the actual things I did inside any of the two dreams
(8:16:58 AM) Kaolc: I just remember getting lucid >.>
(8:17:11 AM) Kaolc: And I don't even know why I got lucid.. So yeah
(8:17:15 AM) Kaolc: Success.. But still a failure
(8:17:29 AM) Kaolc: And tomorrow I start school >.> gonna be hard to continue with this tactic when I gotta get up at 5 am.
(8:17:32 AM) Kaolc: Have fun.


My current explanation to this one is that I was so tired that I didn't fully wake up but it just triggered the need for a RC. Both were amazing, but left me with this ANNOYING feeling all day because I didn't remember what happened in the dreams.

Got a few other IM logs like this one with successes, but they're on my laptop. Will post them later.

I'm having trouble with being too tired as well. While I remember bits and pieces of dreams (with the occasional memory of waking up to the alarm) I've not been able to hold my attention before falling asleep again. Either that or I haven't even woken up.

exactly what happens to me D:
or I just am too lazy xD

Attempt 5
Epic fail.

Originally Posted by Sarge_Maximus2

I'm having trouble with being too tired as well. While I remember bits and pieces of dreams (with the occasional memory of waking up to the alarm) I've not been able to hold my attention before falling asleep again. Either that or I haven't even woken up.

Yes. Being too tired makes it harder.

yes this seems quite promising, but at the same time I believe that after you wake up the first time and not move, it will be really damn hard to stay awake, especially because of the fact that you arent moving, but in truth there is only one way to find out, and I will try

Well, I have a custom alarm. It's that french song from Inception! I put the trumpet intro for the three seconds as with the regular alarm, and them I have the first two lines so I can be made awake, and them have something to remind me what to do/gradually wake me up a bit more. It hasn't worked yet but i believe I was trying it too early. I'm going for the 5 hours tonight, and see if that helps any better.

yeah I can never do it right It makes me sad. but I recall like 5 dreams just by setting the alarms in general

It doesn't work that way for me. Without the alarm I recall better.

Do I get a signature now?

I get better recall with the alarm when setting it early, too.
Last night failed. I'm trying to use new sounds as alarms, but I'm keeping the fade-in just to ensure I don't get startled. I think I've gotten too used to the old sound. Last night I tried a new one and it just woke me up then stopped a second later. It was set to snooze after 10 secs, so it nearly didn't wake me up. I was too tired and almost instantly fell asleep again, also felt like I wasn't in my REM period.. I set the alarm to go off after 6:30, I'll try 5 and 7 this night, will see if that works out better. Also will set it to autosnooze after 15 secs instead of 10. Will let you know how it goes!

Update on my last post. I tried again tonight, setting my alarm at 5 and 7 hours. The one after 5 hours didn't wake me up at all, so I'm guessing I wasn't in REM sleep because then I'd be sleeping more lightly. Since a full REM period is 90 minutes I'll try cutting that in half and adding/subtracting it from the 5 hours.. So next night will be 4:15 and 5:45 for my two alarms.

I never got to the 7 hour alarm either, because I woke up with a cramp in my leg after 6:40 -.- when it finally went away and I almost fell asleep, the alarm got me wide awake again.

Oh well, tonight's another chance. Wish me luck!

Good luck! I've been having frequent problems waking up too. But once I set my alarm to when I would wake up, I have trouble becoming fully aware and usually just fall back to sleep. Any suggestions?