**CrazyInSane's WILD tutorial!!**
CrazyInSane's
WILD TECHNIQUE!
CUSTOM ALARM NOISE Wake-initiated Lucid Dream (CANWILD)
——A very easy and successful alternative to WBTB and DEILD——
Three (3) easy steps to an almost-guaranteed WILD every morning using a special technique that doesn't require a disruptive WBTB!
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Yes, you CAN-WILD!!!
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Introduction:
Hey all. I've been a member here since 2006, but haven't posted much lately. I've recently gotten back into the habit of LDing, and am now at a stage where I can have a WILD every night if I choose to do so. I've dubbed this WILD method the CANWILD (custom alarm noise wake-induced lucid dream) technique, because it uses a custom version of an alarm clock to induce almost guaranteed WILDs. This method does not incorporate WBTB (wake-back to bed). This method follows the same idea as the DEILD (dream-exit induced lucid dream) technique, but doesn't rely on the rare occurrence of a conscious exiting from a dream; it relies instead on the rock-solid custom alarm clock method, resulting in success almost every time if you follow the steps listed below.
The method is simple: after being asleep for most of the night, you will wake up the mind, but not the body. This is done by a setting a "custom alarm clock" to ring an hour or so before you usually wake up. The "custom alarm" (detailed below) stops ringing automatically, without the user needing to move at all to turn it off. The best part about this method is that it usually only takes up to 1 minute or less to enter a WILD dream after you wake up from the alarm and start the technique. This is because your body will still be in sleep paralysis, allowing for you to skip the entire relaxation phase you would normally do in a WBTB WILD.
To clarify: the difference between the custom alarm clock and a normal alarm clock is that the normal alarm clock will continue ringing until you move and shut it off (or press the "snooze" button), but since the CANWILD method requires that you NOT MOVE AT ALL (or at least as little as possible) when the alarm rings, you will need a "custom alarm clock", which is an alarm that will ring a sound for about 3 seconds, then fall completely silent. It's basically like replicating a random noise that wakes you up, except this is an intentional noise.
There is only one prerequisite to my method that is required. Instead of a normal alarm clock, you will need a custom alarm clock that will go off like a normal alarm, but will stop on its own without you having to move to get up and turn it off. It is very important to this technique that you not move (or move as little as possible) after the alarm goes off, meaning it has to stop on its own. It is thus required that you have either a PC or iPod* in your bedroom to play the custom alarm. Or, if you can find an actual physical alarm clock that has this feature, all the better. I've been unable to find one thus far. **As an alternative to this prerequisite, you can ask your bed partner to turn off your regular alarm when it sounds off. Also ask them to avoid moving or making any noise after doing so.**
(PC users, click here for my recommended custom alarm software "Easy MP3 Alarm Clock", and you can also right-click here for the MP3 audio file I use as the alarm sound. Ensure that you adjust your PC's settings so that it doesn't go into "sleep" mode during the night, as this will prevent the alarm from going off.)
(iPod users... see the bottom of this post for more information)
So, without further ado... here's my technique:
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STEP 1 — Set your custom alarm clock (such as the "Easy MP3 Alarm Clock" or an iPod auto-stop alarm) to wake you up about 15–60 minutes before you normally wake up. Alternatively, set your normal alarm and ask your bed partner to be the one to turn it off.
In this step, you simply want to set your custom alarm so that it wakes you up approximately 15–60 minutes before you normally have to wake up. You can set it for earlier, but this period is best to guarantee that you are in an active REM sleep period, which is very important to dreams and WILDing. Your REMs are their most active in the morning when you wake up (as you can probably tell from the almost-guaranteed dreams you have if you hit the snooze button). Anyway, when waking up to the alarm, it is best if nobody else will be shuffling about when the alarm goes off, because we do not want any sound disruptions to hamper your efforts.
If you have the "Easy MP3" clock, follow these instructions to set it up:
1. Open the program
2. Click "Browse..."
3. Select the MP3 file from your desktop or use your own custom MP3/WAV file that is preferably 4 seconds or less long (MP3 download link here) <--right click
4. Click "Test" to test it out. The audio file will open in your default media player. The file may automatically loop itself, but just change the "repeat" or "loop" settings in your media player to prevent this. (In Windows Media Player, go to the "Play" tab, and uncheck the "Repeat" option)
5. Set the alarm to wake you up preferably about 15 minutes to 1 hour before you normally wake up in the morning (i.e. 7:00 if you need to wake up at 8:00) and voila!
STEP 2 — Wake up from your custom alarm. It is vital in this step that you do not move, or move as little as possible, as you do not want to exit sleep paralysis. If you move too much, you will need to WILD from the very beginning like in WBTB, which may take up to an hour to complete.
Once your alarm goes off and it hopefully stops ringing within 3 seconds (if the settings are all correct), you will be conscious in your head, but you must intentionally prevent your body from moving. As soon as you become conscious, make sure to immediately remember not to move your body. It may take a few nights to get this down, or you might get it the first time (I did). Within seconds after the alarm stops and you stay completely still, your body should start to tingle and you will be re-entering sleep. This is the same thing that happens when you normally wake up from an alarm and then go back for a quick "snooze" and fall asleep dreaming within seconds, except this time you're intentionally staying conscious, meaning you will basically be WILDing with the ability to skip the hardest step (the relaxation phase).
Many have pointed out to me that it must be hard to keep the body almost completely still when the alarm wakes you up. The truth is, it's very easy. Your body will be so relaxed that you will not have any itch to move it whatsoever. Think of it this way — when your alarm goes off on a normal morning do you ever really want to move at all to turn it off? No? Well the custom alarm prevents you from needing to move, meaning you'll be happy all-around not to have to move. And your LDing efforts will be all the easier because of it. Trust me, you will reach the transition phase within seconds if you follow these instructions. The key is to keep your mind fully conscious, while limiting bodily movement. This will "trick" your body into re-entering the sleep/dream state almost immediately because not only are you still in sleep paralysis because you haven't moved yet, but your body also thinks you are unconscious because you haven't moved.
STEP 3 — Transitioning to the sleep/dream state. This is obviously the rewarding part, yet, as with any other WILD method, is probably the hardest part to get through without failing (especially in your first few attempts). But as long as you can get to this stage, you're doing excellent.
Although this step can still be somewhat difficult for beginners, it's usually not near as hard as most other WILD methods (such as WBTB) because you're already relaxed and ready to sleep. Additionally with my method (as opposed to WBTB), you don't need to go through the entire relaxation phase and waste about 1 hour only to fail. At least with my method, if you fail, you've only wasted a few minutes and you didn't need to wake up in the middle of the night and screw up your sleep pattern.
Okay. So the alarm has gone off, you've "woken up" in your head, you have ensured not to move your physical body, and you wait. Within a minute or less, if all goes well, you should begin to feel the signs of transitioning. You may get tingling sensations, a feeling of swirling into oblivion, or a variety of other sensations you probably know all about by now.
From this point, there are various ways to complete the transition. You can "roll over" your dream body into the dream world, you can "sit up" in your dream bed, you can jump into the dream scene, or you can even transition your way into the dream world through tinnitus, which is how I often do it (tinnitus is the ringing noise in your ears that often intensifies at the point of transition).
If for some reason you never reach the transition phase, it would usually mean one of three (3) things: Either you've moved too much since the alarm went off, you're too excited and pumped up, or you're not in REM sleep (usually this would happen if you didn't get enough sleep or set the alarm too early... I'd recommend at least 6 hours sleep before waking).
Once you've gotten past this point, you've made it! Now it's just a matter of mastering stabilization and dream control, both of which are outlined in various other great tutorials on this site. In particular, see this post-transition stabilization tutorial from Dreamview.com's Dream Guide Team.
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Benefits of CANWILD over other methods:
Benefits over other WILD methods:
— No WBTB, meaning no disruptive waking up in the middle of the night. The main reason people avoid WILDing (or lucid dreaming in general) is because it disrupts their sleep pattern and requires too much effort. The CANWILD method avoids these nuisances altogether, allowing you to wake up almost right on schedule as you normally would.
— Takes advantage of the REM-heavy pre-wake morning period. Your REM cycles are at their longest near morning, thus increasing dream vividness and likelihood.
— Repeatable each and every night, because you’re not losing any sleep, wasting any time, nor doing anything that requires special pre-planned activity. CANWILD allows for easy application of trial-and-error on a nightly basis without disruption.
— Increased likelihood that you will remember your WILDs more vividly long-term, because you will be waking up permanently for the day shortly after you experience them. This is opposed to WBTB WILDs, where you would likely be going back to sleep for several more hours after your WILD, meaning you may forget the dream when you wake up later in the morning. Doing WILDs during a daytime nap has the same benefit.
— Allows you to skip the infamous and difficult “relaxation phase” of WILDing, and gets you right to the important part: the wake/sleep transition. The relaxation phase is often cited as the biggest obstacle to successful WILDing, with things as simple as throat swallowing impeding progress.
Benefits over the similar DEILD method:
— The CANWILD method, unlike with DEILD, is reliable in that it will do what it needs to do every time you attempt. DEILD’s exiting from a dream consciously is unreliable; it might happen, it might not. CANWILD’s alarm ensures that you will wake up when you need to, and that you will become consciously aware.
— DEILD can have bad timing. Let’s say you awaken from a dream 2 minutes before your normal alarm is ready to ring in the morning. If you get into a LD successfully, your alarm will wake you from it. With CANWILD, the only alarm that will be going off is the one involved in the technique itself.
— CANWILD is better than DEILD for people who more interested in achieving effortless and on-demand WILDs. With the DEILD method, you must work on DILD-related dream recall, reality checks, and other pre-sleep methods to increase the likelihood that you will consciously exit a dream. With CANWILD, the alarm does all the work; you don’t need to do any advanced preparation.
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**iPod users — there may be an alarm clock app that allows for the auto-stop alarm feature, but this hasn't been confirmed yet. The built-in alarm does not have this feature. For the time being, I recommend searching the app store to see if you can find an alarm app that would allow for a non-infinite loop alarm sound to go off. There is a $0.99 app that may have the feature (called "Alarm Clock Pro"), but I haven't tested it out yet. If you're willing to pay for and test it, let us know the results. Otherwise, we need to get someone to create an LD iPod app for us!
I hope you've all enjoyed this tutorial, and I invite you to PLEASE ask me if you have any questions, or if there are any corrections you think are necessary to the tutorial.
Thank you very much for reading, and good luck to all!
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