Hi again ive been testing out WILD for quite a bit now, a lot of techs and i thought id share a trick that has helped me a lot, i think that with this ive gotten the best results, ok here we go
Being a bit hyper myself i often found that teks didnt work very well for me so i was like a bit down but then i found out something simple that helped me, well for this youll only need an mp3 player and some comfortable headphones, mine are sound isolating because i heard something about wearing earplugs helping focusing on HI and HS so anyways now you need some music, but not any music, ive found out the best music to use is lyricless kinda, i like thievery corporation for this but any kind works, you need some soothing music, nothing thatll make your feet rock, well then i usually set my ipod on a 10 min playlist with those songs and just listen them while laying in bed with my eyes closed, this is the start of wilding.
the trick here is to focus in the music, because you can actually fall asleep listening to it, just focus on it gently, and enjoy the music, when the playlist finishes i already feel that sp has kicked in and im completely relaxed, with this i can start counting 1 im dreaming and so on, this removes the anxiety feeling for me since it leaves me completely relaxed and so making WILD loads easier
This was something I was wondering about last night as I fell asleep(kind of my first night on my quest for lucidity) I just joined the forum last night after much reading, and I was toying with weather or not to use music as I fell asleep.
I ended up playing one track (‘sleep’ by Phish… awesome song to fall asleep too) on repeat on a very low volume.
Even though my first night yielded not even a strong dream recollection, I’m glad to hear that others use music, especially with WILD which I am quite interested in.
great gonna give this a try but i dont hink that this will work 4 me because its really hard for me to listen to music nad go to sleep. Im not that type of person. But ill still try!!
well i dont fall asleep listening to the music, i just use it to stop getting too bored while wilding, i usually stop the music at some point in order for it not to interphere with HI or HS
Yesterday I was in a concert of acousmatic music (work based on non-musical sounds with computer treatment ; no melody nor bass line/drums aso but electronic atonal features) ; they play the music in total darkness, on a hundred loudspeakers so that they can make the sounds come from different points in space. They played a work that was almost 1 hour long ; it was very dreamy, wavy, smooth (it was a music describing the revolution of planets) ; and I had two 3-second long WILDS while listening to it although those WILDS were very poor : all of a sudden I get a very clear image (in the first one, I see distinctly my thighs and the bottom of my t-shirt, as I sat head bent and eyes closed, but with different clothes ; in the second, a radio with a screen displaying numbers changing with the music I still heard). I was perfectly lucid but I couldn’t change anything to the image nor make any move, as I was still feeling my normal body, sitting on a chair in the concert hall. I attempted a small move of the hand and felt that my real hand was twitching a little, but I had no body control whatsoever in that “WILD-image”, and it began to fade very fast (I did not yell “Clarity now !!!” for the aforementioned reason yelling nonsense in a concert hall is generally considered uncool ).
Interesting Malina, that would explain why I always seem to “zone out” during my school’s orchestra concerts. Except much less vividly, because the lights are still on and I have to keep the rowdy freshman in line.
And I’ve tried the MP3 “method” before, only I use a special U2 mix. (So far, the only CD of mine that does any good.) It’s very effective, except my MP3 never seems to turn off and I run the battery down…
Try listening to music with your eyes closed. Even if you don’t want to zone out, you end up with a better listening anyway that’s why they do acousmatic concerts in the dark, because you have to listen intently without being distracted by what you see.
Very true But be careful not to fall asleep with the music on, it will mess with the HI. Better you take it off when you feel sleepy, correct me if im wrong.
ive been testing out WILD for quite a bit now, a lot of techs and i thought id share a trick that has helped me a lot, i think that with this ive gotten the best results, ok here we go 
although those WILDS were very poor : all of a sudden I get a very clear image (in the first one, I see distinctly my thighs and the bottom of my t-shirt, as I sat head bent and eyes closed, but with different clothes ; in the second, a radio with a screen displaying numbers changing with the music I still heard). I was perfectly lucid but I couldn’t change anything to the image nor make any move, as I was still feeling my normal body, sitting on a chair in the concert hall. I attempted a small move of the hand and felt that my real hand was twitching a little, but I had no body control whatsoever in that “WILD-image”, and it began to fade very fast (I did not yell “Clarity now !!!” for the aforementioned reason 
yelling nonsense in a concert hall is generally considered uncool 
that’s why they do acousmatic concerts in the dark, because you have to listen intently without being distracted by what you see.