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

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 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 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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