Greetings Dream Friends!

I had my first successful WILD last night after a month-with no LDs at all. Here's the report:

I have tried WILD several times without success. I normally sleep on my side so I did my prior WILD attempts on my back. But I just never went to sleep that way, even after a couple hours. And that gets really uncomfortable, which makes sleep even less likely. It seems like the successful WILD walks a narrow line between wakefulness and sleep. I decided I needed to move more toward the sleepy end of the spectrum. So I laid on my side and adopted the normal "going to sleep" mental attitude of surrender, BUT I kept some conscious awareness going by repeating the mantra "I am dreaming" along with my breath. I would just barely lose the mantra and then come back, lose it and come back. So it seems I was skirting the line between barely conscious and unconscious. I don't know how long this went on, but not long. Maybe twenty minutes. Then very suddenly my body began to vibrate violently, the room filled with sounds, some animal poked me in the back with its snout and then wrapped its furry body all around me and then I knew I was in the dream state. My dream body sat up in bed and I opened my eyes to the lucid dream world.

Since this is my first success, I don't know that I can draw any conclusions. But it seems like each person probably needs to fine tune their method to their own individual needs so they get as close as possible to unconsciousness without stepping over. If you lie awake for two hours, change something to move toward the sleepy side. If you lose consciousness right away, move toward the more conscious end.

My two cents.