Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
Though I'm sure there are others here more versed on why the WILD technique produces OBE's (indeed, though I don't attempt OBE's myself, I'm pretty sure that WILD is THE technique for inducing them), I'll give you my take on why OBE's seem to follow WILD:

When you WILD, you are entering the dreaming state without losing waking awareness, and by extension without gaining the input from your dreaming mind that normally would be made (meaning, you're sidestepping your natural dreams). So there you are, asleep but with waking awareness, with your dreaming mind scrambling to fill in the void you've created. I think what might happen next is that your dreaming mind joins with your waking expectations/recent memory, and hastily produces a dream in which you wakefully find yourself in the most recent place you were, like your bedroom or home. And, if you let the sensation continue, it turns into what feels like an OBE (or, perhaps, an actual OBE).

Here's a thought -- and actually what I do when I use the WILD technique: next time you use WILD and find yourself in an OBE, disregard the sensation and try to move out of your "room," perhaps by flying straight up through the ceiling. Then float quietly in empty space and allow your dreaming mind a moment to "catch up." I think after you so establish that you're interested in starting up a dream, your dreaming mind will quickly oblige with a more substantial, or at least less local, dream world. This is even more effective when you set solid intentions/expectations before you begin your WILD.

Just one other note that has nothing to do with your question but I try to say it whenever I'm talking about WILD's here: WILD is a means toward lucid dreaming; it is not an end in itself. Use it as a tool, when it is most helpful (i.e., during WBTB) to get to the LD's you want to have and it works well; assume that it is an experience unto itself and you'll regularly find yourself limited to curious sleep-paralysis events and things like OBE's but you might never get to the dream itself.
Well, perfect answer, thank you That was also the most logical one regarding WILD method.

I forgot to tell you, in all those 28 WILDs, well maybe not all of them, I got out of my room somehow, usually flying. And you are totally right when you said "I think after you so establish that you're interested in starting up a dream, your dreaming mind will quickly oblige with a more substantial, or at least less local, dream world". Examples:

http://www.dreamviews.org/f12/last-s...e-night-67158/ - http://www.dreamviews.org/f13/portal-wormhole-128822/