Thread: Why You Fail at WILDs

Originally Posted by bengreenmusic

I think you might be able to help me, recently I've been waking up in the middle of the night for no reason, maybe subconsciously in order to LD, i don't really know.

Well anyway after I wake up I can close my eyes and see the dream I was just having quite well, but I still feel conscious. Not lucid conscious, as I've DILDed before and that felt completely different. Its really strange, almost like two minds, my dream mind being hazy but nearly there and my awake mind being conscious. I think to myself, 'I'm awake' in my dream, but because I'm almost half and half don't become lucid.

Do you reckon if I keep doing this but spend more time on being, aware/thinking about lucidity/something else, I'll have a successful WILD?

By the way, your OP is really useful and I'll probably try it out tonight, thanks for the help.

If you wake up in the middle of the night, try to not open your eyes and do a DEILD.

I took an afternoon nap today, and I think I got really close. Less than an hour before the nap, I'd beaten The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (I got it for my last birthday, and I don't care that I'm four years late!). Seeing as it's the best and longest Wii game I've ever played, I was thinking about it as I fell asleep, and it became my anchor. I think I heard a faint whooshing noise at one point, and then the anchor started to affect me directly. My body would seem to tingle whenever I thought of certain parts of the game; I almost could feel the things that I was imagining. After that, I swallowed or something, and the sensations went away. That's the closest I've ever gotten to a successful WILD. Before you say anything, I did RC right after coming out of the "trance;" I, unfortunately, was awake.