A different way to WILD

So, right, I was ‘cleaning my room’ (read: lying in bed wrestling with my cat) and I suddenly felt tired, so I lolled my head and closed my eyes. I noticed myself thinking about a dream rather than dreaming it, and realized that I might be able to get into the dream this way. I concentrated on dreaming, and soon found myself in a semi-lucid dream: my eyes were closed, but I was seeing what was going on in my mind, mainly because I was making what was going on. I managed to get it working simply by thinking “open your eyes, get up, get up, open your eyes”, and basically telekinetically controlling my body in the dream. After that, I did what I wanted to do, and woke myself up.

Unfortunately, what I wanted to do didn’t exactly work. I created a watch on my hand (which was created instantly, since I was controlling the short dream), that would control whether I was lucid dreaming or not with a toggle switch thing. I’m not sure how well it worked, because 30 minutes later I was asleep again (I’m not very good at cleaning my room) and had a non-lucid dream, during which I ran through my grandmothers house and thought something along the lines of “oh, come on, am I ALWAYS chased through here? How about some variety” but didn’t become lucid.

So, 2 things. 1: have people practiced getting into a lucid dream by WILDing like that, just thinking about it while you’re kind of drowsy, and 2: Why didn’t my dream watch work. Maybe I didn’t make it specific; should I have also said, while I was making the watch, “It will bring me into a lucid dream” instead of just saying “It will light up when I either flip this switch or become lucid”?

I think this is called VILD, visualization induced lucid dreaming. If this worked for you I’d look into it because theres other steps you can take which will make the technique more efficient.

This is a form of VILD, combined with Fadem’s technique when he was younger where he daydream-VILDed into an LD. You might want to ask him :razz: