Thread: I have never been lucid before and I just almost had a WILD!

After writing down my whole day in my waking journal and setting my intention to remember my dreams,
I fell asleep normally. I had an alarm set to 4:00 AM so I could try and attempt another WBTB MILD (No success in lucidity yet, just vivid dreams).

My alarm jolted me awake and destroyed any recall from earlier in the night . After surfing on the DV forums for 25 minutes, I went back to bed.

I was attempting to MILD by visualizing becoming lucid in a previous dream while repeating the mantra:
I AM lucid, I AM dreaming.

I eventually stopped visualizing and jjust repeated the mantra while lying on my right side and trying to fall asleep. I then started to feel incredibly intense vibrations, especially in my ears. I also heard a bird chirping which may have been a hallucination. I then felt a sort of transition which I knew was me entering the dream( but no HI).

I then experienced a false awakening where I moved which disrupted the vibration making me think I failed. But the vibration came back several times which shouldn't of happened because I should have been immobilized from SP.

For my first attempt, that seemed very close to a successful WILD. Should I continue with this technique and is there any advice you guys could offer me?

P.S. I have never had much success with MILD

That's a perfect example of this idea in action.

I say keep at it. Just make sure you don't turn this into a "technique" since WILDing really is as simple as falling asleep while retaining a certain level of awareness. You'll notice that your intent was to fall asleep, not WILD, yet you got very close to a successful WILD. That's the key right there.

Great job!

Great, thanks for the advice. You are completely right, I had sort of given up on my MILD attempt and was just trying to fall asleep. The thing was that I was still unconsciously repeating my MILD mantra of "I AM lucid, I AM dreaming". This must have kept me conscious enough for my body to fall asleep and not my mind.

I think it's ironic that everyone tells you not to attempt WILDs for your first LD. This is exciting for me.

Update: For various reasons such as getting too excited, waking up at the wrong time for WBTB, or staying up too long for WBTB I have not been able to get close to a WILD since that one time.

I am making an mp3 file on audacity that gently wakes me up every 90 minutes starting after 4 and 1/2 hours of sleep and plays theta Isochronic Tones for 30 minutes after every alarm. I am hoping that using this in conjunction with waking up just shortly enough to write down bullet points of my dreams will help me successfully WILD.

(honestly)

good luck!