Quote Originally Posted by Hijo de la Luna View Post
Dear Mr. Clyde, there is no wrong way to WILD. I would recommend writing down a list of all the WILD tutorials you like & why. Then give your favorite one a try anywhere from one week to three. Record the conditions of your WILD attempts i.e. time, energy level etc. Then at the end evaluate the results. After that move on to the next one.

You may find you favor a certain technique or maybe just a part of one WILD style. This is okay. Take what you like and leave the rest. It is also good to have backup WILD techs you never know when they will come in handy

Don't be afraid to fail. We can fail but we are not failures. All failure is feed back on what not to do the exact same way. Try everything first hand & remember someone elses experiences will never be your own.
Thanks for the insights; I don't see myself as a failure, but that I have yet to succeed at WILDing. I'll keep your words in mind, as they will prove useful, and I'll look into WILDing methods, keeping track of what ones I like and why, and give them a shot. I can be patient.

However, I think when I tried WILDing last night, I got too impatient waiting to slip into SP, and just rolled over and tried WILDing on my side instead of on my back -- which resulted in me just falling asleep since it was much more difficult to keep my mind awake and alert in that position.

I think I did the WBTB part of it correctly: I got exactly 5 1/2 hours of sleep before my alarm gently woke me up, I went to the bathroom, got a cookie to eat and took a drink of water, was listening to music (maybe techno isn't quite what the doctor ordered - is music generally bad for WBTB?), and did a math problem out of my Algebra book before getting back to bed 20 minutes after my alarm had woken me. I was alert and awake and very conscious, but after between 15 and 20 minutes of watching the backs of my eyelids, I just didn't feel any changes. My arms got that numb feeling, but the rest of my body was the same as it was, no fuzziness or anything. At one point I had an involuntary full-body jerk, but wasn't shaken out of my relaxed state or shocked or anything, I just went back into my relaxed mindset.

So, was I too awake last night? Is that why I didn't WILD then?