Thread: What happened? Post Your WILD Attempts, Good or Bad, Here

No good, I fell asleep during my attempt last night, and didn't get to bed until really late the day before. I should stay up a bit longer during my WBTB.

Attempted another WILD last night - did get lucid, though it was moreso a MILD. More info in the Dream Yoga thread

WILD this morning- a brief one. Upon wakening, I got comfy and started stimulating tactile sensations again. I moved all four of my limbs like I was running, the sensation was quite easy, then I visualised a pathway infront of me. Within 30 seconds, I'm jogging on a pathway with a slight incline, surrounded by beautiful houses.
.. then I woke up.
Seems like having nice houses around me is a dream sign. Will take note to explore one, next time.

Spoiler for I feel as though i'm spamming the thread :(:

Another 2 WILDs (naps) and it arose 2 DILDs. First WILD was induced by doing mental jumping jacks, yay! - I'll post each individual one in my dream journal later. They weren't long. I doing mental jumping jacks which landed me in laying on a plane, for the first one. Which then led to an FA.
A WILD where I specifically induce the scene and then a DILD related to the scene of the WILD. Again, cool architecture. Some advanced technology you'd see in fantasy movies.

Originally Posted by fOrceez

I feel as though i'm spamming the thread

It can't be spam when it's a success story!

Another 2 WILDs (naps) and it arose 2 DILDs. First WILD was induced by doing mental jumping jacks, yay! - I'll post each individual one in my dream journal later. They weren't long. I doing mental jumping jacks which landed me in laying on a plane, for the first one. Which then led to an FA.
A WILD where I specifically induce the scene and then a DILD related to the scene of the WILD. Again, cool architecture. Some advanced technology you'd see in fantasy movies.

Excellent examples, FOrceez; thanks for sharing! Looks like you got the whole range of action this time; sounds like it was fun! Nice how you've mixed and matched WILDs with DILD's; that often works well for me, too (or just happens through no fault of my own, I suppose).

Send all the "spam" of that sort that you'd like; it'll likely inspire others!

Hahaha that is so awesooome fOrceez! Congrats.

I'll still be attempting WILDs throughout this month :3 I hope I can transition better next time

Great job fOrceez, you're really doing well with this WILD thing.

Update on my progress: Bad weekend for WILDing, lots of distractions that kept me from focusing. Tried a WILD today with a fan on for some white noise, just to try it out. Seemed to work quite well because I actually managed to slip into sleep paralysis, I didn't notice it happen but I couldn't move a muscle, had to struggle to actually pull myself out of it. No hallucinations or anything, but I figure if I had continued with it I would have slipped into a lucid.

I think that's my main problem now, I'm not giving it enough time to happen. Getting better at prolonging my patience though, it was about an hour today. Hopefully soon enough I'll build up enough patience to carry it through until the end.

Originally Posted by RareCola

Update on my progress: Bad weekend for WILDing, lots of distractions that kept me from focusing. Tried a WILD today with a fan on for some white noise, just to try it out. Seemed to work quite well because I actually managed to slip into sleep paralysis, I didn't notice it happen but I couldn't move a muscle, had to struggle to actually pull myself out of it. No hallucinations or anything, but I figure if I had continued with it I would have slipped into a lucid.

I think that's my main problem now, I'm not giving it enough time to happen. Getting better at prolonging my patience though, it was about an hour today. Hopefully soon enough I'll build up enough patience to carry it through until the end.

I think you already gave yourself the same advice, RareCola, but I'll rhetorically ask anyway: why did you pull yourself our of SP, and the WILD? It seems to me that if you are that far along, it couldn't hurt to keep going. Did you have somewhere to be? If yes, then you might want to re-examine the "timing" portion of your practice, because it is very important to have lots of time for s WILD, or else you won't have much success -- or time for it, anyway!

If it was patience, and not running short on time, then you also already correctly advised yourself -- this stuff isn't easy, let it work itself through!

Believe it or not you seem to be doing fine with this to me, RareCola -- so long as you give yourself a chance.

I awoke at 4:00am, got up for 30 minutes. I relaxed my body for a little bit and then attempted and failed twice. I finally managed to relax the third time. It took roughly 40 minutes to reach SP. The patterns I saw changed instantly as soon as SP arrived (I did not expect it at all :O)

I'm also thinking of starting a book specifically for WILD. I will record everything that happened in that book and I can hopefully spot out any mistakes I made

One last thing, the weekends I only do DILD, to recover my lost sleep hours. I lost 3 hours of sleep this morning

Originally Posted by Lunatide

I awoke at 4:00am, got up for 30 minutes. I relaxed my body for a little bit and then attempted and failed twice. I finally managed to relax the third time. It took roughly 40 minutes to reach SP. The patterns I saw changed instantly as soon as SP arrived (I did not expect it at all :O)

I'm also thinking of starting a book specifically for WILD. I will record everything that happened in that book and I can hopefully spot out any mistakes I made

One last thing, the weekends I only do DILD, to recover my lost sleep hours. I lost 3 hours of sleep this morning

Way to keep at it, Lunatide!

I do have two quick questions for you (Since they are meant more for your consideration than my edification, you don't need to answer them here):

First, why did you end your attempt at SP, if that was the case? Why not just ignore the SP and continue your WILD, with the knowledge that a dream is just moments away?

Second, why not reverse your WILD/DILD schedule. You could practice DILD all week and never lose any sleep, and then have more time on the weekends (therefore with less damage to your sleep) for practicing WILDS. The switch seems to make sense to me -- though of course I have no idea what your personal circumstances might be!

Originally Posted by Sageous

I think you already gave yourself the same advice, RareCola, but I'll rhetorically ask anyway: why did you pull yourself our of SP, and the WILD? It seems to me that if you are that far along, it couldn't hurt to keep going. Did you have somewhere to be? If yes, then you might want to re-examine the "timing" portion of your practice, because it is very important to have lots of time for s WILD, or else you won't have much success -- or time for it, anyway!

If it was patience, and not running short on time, then you also already correctly advised yourself -- this stuff isn't easy, let it work itself through!

Believe it or not you seem to be doing fine with this to me, RareCola -- so long as you give yourself a chance.

I accidentally pulled myself out of it. I heard a crash outside and I guess that distracted me and I moved a bit, after that I checked the time without thinking. Then I realised how much of a struggle it was to move and I guess as it was my first time I wanted to see if I could move. By the time I had done that I had pulled myself out of it too much and didn't have the patience to lay there again and get back into it.

^^ Oh, I misunderstood, then...never mind!

Originally Posted by Sageous

I do have two quick questions for you (Since they are meant more for your consideration than my edification, you don't need to answer them here):

First, why did you end your attempt at SP, if that was the case? Why not just ignore the SP and continue your WILD, with the knowledge that a dream is just moments away?

Second, why not reverse your WILD/DILD schedule. You could practice DILD all week and never lose any sleep, and then have more time on the weekends (therefore with less damage to your sleep) for practicing WILDS. The switch seems to make sense to me -- though of course I have no idea what your personal circumstances might be!

1.) I ended because of 2 reasons. The first being: I had lost hope, I wasn't hallucinating at all. Not even seeing any patterns. Just a glimpse of dark grey diamonds for a second The second: I had an itchy testicle.

2.) WILD seems to be harder and requires more practice for me, so I tend to spend more time doing this. I handle loss of sleep really well for some reason

But I have found an empty notepad to record what happened this morning. I will soon be spotting out mistakes .

Originally Posted by Sageous

^^ Oh, I misunderstood, then...never mind!

Actually come to think of it, could the noise I heard have been an auditory hallucination? Could have sworn it was outside, like my neighbour dropped something and it made a banging/crashing sound when it hit the floor. Though as I was in sleep paralysis I guess it could have been a hallucination.

Originally Posted by RareCola

Actually come to think of it, could the noise I heard have been an auditory hallucination? Could have sworn it was outside, like my neighbour dropped something and it made a banging/crashing sound when it hit the floor. Though as I was in sleep paralysis I guess it could have been a hallucination.

Just reminded me, I hallucinated some screeching noises, but only a couple of times.

Originally Posted by RareCola

Actually come to think of it, could the noise I heard have been an auditory hallucination? Could have sworn it was outside, like my neighbour dropped something and it made a banging/crashing sound when it hit the floor. Though as I was in sleep paralysis I guess it could have been a hallucination.

There's an excellent chance that the noise was an hallucination.

And, assuming your home isn't on fire or there's a truck careening through your living room, it's not such a terrible idea to accept that these noises are hallucinations, and incorporate them into your WILD attempt...

Sageous, I remembered something else. The main reason I try WILD on weekdays is because I don't want to wake my step brother who sleeps in the same room as me. My alarm needs to be loud enough to wake me He sleeps round every 2 weeks for the weekend and I sleep at my dad's house the other weekends, in which I struggle to relax in. So i guess WILD is better attempted when I am pretty much alone and able to relax easy.

Originally Posted by Lunatide

1.) I ended because of 2 reasons. The first being: I had lost hope, I wasn't hallucinating at all. Not even seeing any patterns. Just a glimpse of dark grey diamonds for a second The second: I had an itchy testicle.

2.) WILD seems to be harder and requires more practice for me, so I tend to spend more time doing this. I handle loss of sleep really well for some reason

But I have found an empty notepad to record what happened this morning. I will soon be spotting out mistakes .

I think losing hope is the primary reason for abandoning WILD's -- that's why it's the most difficult technique. Try to hold onto hope, or perhaps anticipation next time -- or perhaps just lose track of time in general, so you don't think about how long this is taking!

... can't help you on the itchy bit, though (probably the secondary reason for abandoning WILD)!


I forgot to mention earlier that keeping a personal notebook which details your progress is an excellent idea. It is.

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Originally Posted by Lunatide

Sageous, I remembered something else. The main reason I try WILD on weekdays is because I don't want to wake my step brother who sleeps in the same room as me. My alarm needs to be loud enough to wake me He sleeps round every 2 weeks for the weekend and I sleep at my dad's house the other weekends, in which I struggle to relax in. So i guess WILD is better attempted when I am pretty much alone and able to relax easy.

That last bit is right on the money ... it's better to occasionally make a well-planned, timed, and uninterrupted WILD attempt than to make a whole lot of lesser tries, I think.

Originally Posted by Lunatide

Just reminded me, I hallucinated some screeching noises, but only a couple of times.

See? Stuff was going on!

I just had my first successful wild today from being wide awake. I started at 11 PM and started counting down from 100. Each time I would count down by 1 I said to myself "Let go". I had eventually reached 30 and started to get some imagery. I first saw a dude keeping a soccer ball in the air by using the top of his feet and then some dude playing with a hacky sack. I ignored this and kept trying to relax further. I reached 0 and started to count down again from 50. At 20 I started to hear voices randomly. I counted down to 0 once again and started at 25. I reached 0 one last time and was completely relaxed. I decided to stop because counting down was beginning to annoy me. After the count down was done I was stuck in a day dream for a while. I would snap back to reality at random intervals and go back to the day dream. Eventually, after the day dreaming I was in a state of neither awake nor asleep. I was just laying there almost completely unconscious and unaware of everything around me. Then it hit me, I started to feel and hear these strong vibrations going throughout my body. As this was happening I felt as if my body was moving to a very strange position and I had experienced this before but never went into a dream. As fast as they started they stopped and right away I opened my eyes. I uncovered part of my body from my blanket and looked at my right arm. There was nothing there at all and I had went into a dream. I was so happy I tried getting up right away but I felt really dizzy and saw slight darkness in front of my eyes when I had tried this. I decided to lay back down and say "clarify" and "stabilize" but I knew that this wouldn't be enough for my dream to be completely stable from experience. I tried remembering the last thing I had to do sitting there for about 30 seconds. Then I woke up at around 2:30 and remembered I had to spin in the dream as well as try to interact with the environment as much as possible. I'm not mad though because this is my second lucid today. My first was at about 3 AM and I flew for about 15 seconds before my dream ended. It was absolutely exhilarating and I could feel the wind against my skin. I tried flying up into space at breaking speeds but once I reached the clouds I woke up. I used to think that the vibrations didn't happen to me until now.

Hello, long time lurker, first time poster... Anyway, my experience:

I had gone to sleep at around 2 AM and then woke up at 6 AM to try to WILD. This was before I read very much of this DV Academy WILD course... I lied down on my back, and just tried to relax and do nothing. This went on for a long time and nothing happened. I hadn't tried a WILD in a long time, and forgot some stuff, so I was just doing the really-basic-and not-very-good technique-for-wizards-only of not really having a specific anchor or anything... Needless to say, it started to become very frustrating. For some reason, I just could not relax; I felt itchy all over and just had to keep moving around. I suppose I was too excited about doing a WILD and was too aware of my body and how strangely uncomfortable it felt.
So after a very long time, about an hour or two, I got up and started surfing the web. I decided to read all of the WILD course by Sageous. 3 hours had passed since I had first awoken at 6. Of course, I was still missing all the sleep I needed. So I decided that I'd go back to sleep, but I'd also try using a mantra to attempt to perform a WILD as well. I came up with a pretty weak mantra, "my dream, now", I'll think of one that I like more soon...
Anyway, I lied back down and got as comfortable as I could, closed my eyes and started saying the mantra in my head to the rhythm of my breath. After some minutes, I was surprised with how well the mantra kept me "distracted and aware". You know, distracted from my physical body and all of its uncomfortable sensations, but then aware of what I was trying to do. After some time, I was feeling much more relaxed, and at some points, I was imagining myself up and playing my keyboard, since that's a tactile sensation I can imagine very easily. There were a few times where I actually heard the keyboard as I played, so I knew I was approaching dreamland. Then I felt SP kick in. It felt much more "gentle" than usual and I tried a little harder to immerse myself in my imagination, and hopefully reach a dream, but soon the SP disappeared. Something I've noticed when I've been in SP is when I pay attention to it, or "notice" it and acknowledge its presence, it always seems to rev up and get more intense. So after that SP ended, I stayed still and kept at it, and soon after, it came back. This time, again, didn't last very long. A minute later, a very short one-second "burst" of SP appeared. I thought that was a little weird.
Some minutes later, I believe, was when I kind of lost consciousness. I heard my parents talking above me and opened my eyes to see them talking to each other next to my bed. Quickly, I did a reality check and yeah, I was dreaming. I don't remember the transition though, so definitely not a WILD. Not that that matters, especially considering that I woke up right after I realized it. I got back on track and chanted the mantra in my head more. Not too much later, SP appeared once again and I tried to imagine my body floating above my bed. It wasn't quite working, so I just tried to sit up with my "phantom" body. This worked, but then I felt something large and warm gently push me off my bed and on to the ground. This wasn't scary or intense or anything, it was just kind of weird. Everything felt like it was moving slowly and floating. Being on the imagined floor, I tried to feel like I was falling through my floor to another version of my room. This did work a bit. I felt I was back in my bed, in a new instance of my room. This time, I imagined myself sitting on the side of my bed. I felt it, and decided to open my eyes. I could see my room, but it was a little blurry. Standing up, I realized everything still felt slow and floaty. As I tried to move forward, something started to obscure around half of my vision. Not over my entire visual plane, but as if something clawed at the fabric that my mind's eye projected upon and under that fabric, was another vision, as if I was looking through two pairs of eyes at once. It actually seemed as if if I was looking through my dream eyes, and then under that, I was looking through my real eyes, since in the "other vision" I could see my room from my perspective in bed. My "real" eyes' vision was blurry too, and my comforter was covering some of it, so I couldn't really see too much from that perspective. At one point, I thought I saw a woman sitting there, next to my bed, but she disappeared. I tried some stabilization techniques but they didn't really work. It seemed to me that I just barely "made it inside" a dream and so I wasn't really capable of gaining control yet. Then I woke up from that.
Twas a very interesting experience! Thanks for the lessons, Sageous.
I'm excited to try again tonight, or maybe during a nap in about an hour, since I definitely still didn't get enough sleep, considering that whole thing surprisingly only took around 40 minutes.
I wonder if this is as long as it looks...

I tried WILD last night, but I fell asleep. I got a very short low lucidity DILD though afterwards.

I think I may keep a notebook as well. It'll be interesting to record my progress. ^^

Originally Posted by Sydney

I tried WILD last night, but I fell asleep. I got a very short low lucidity DILD though afterwards.

I think I may keep a notebook as well. It'll be interesting to record my progress. ^^

That's a step in the right direction, Sydney, nice work!

A notebook is a good idea -- I hope you've already got a dream journal, though!