I couldn’t maintain my concentration while doing this. My thoughts wandered all the time… 
You will inevitably come to a point when it gets really hard to keep counting - at that point you will need to do your best and keep counting.
I have had moments when I stopped counting and then fell asleep literally a few seconds after that, so I kinda missed my ride those times. 
This actually works?
I’ll probably try it tonight.
Haha aight I’ll try it again today! Gotta have my first LD haha 
It took me a few tries until it worked, probably 10 or so, but you will certainly succeed if you make sure you keep counting. 
The good thing about this technique is that it is so simple, you kind of jump into the dream using a shortcut - count to 100, do reality checks, count to 100 or more, do reality checks, etc. 
Have you ever tried the FILD tecnique, it sounds really similar to this one. 
I have a question - Is WBTB required? Or you just can be really drowsy?
Wow! This actually works… well… kind off. I did WBTB, stayed awake for about 3-4 hours. Was fully awakened by the time, so I made some Earl Grey and took a cold shower (to relax again). So I counted to 450, and fell uncounciouss. After some time sleeping, I found myself dreaming, counting. Did a RC, and it said that I’m awake, but I knew I was dreaming either way. I levitated, fast runned and had fun for 5-10 minutes, but the dream faded in the end.
To me it worked more like a mantra, because I had the thought that I’ll do an RC all the time, so it wasn’t WILD, but more like MILD.
Anyways, this is the best LD I’ve ever had and thanks to the original poster and everyone who posted in this thread!
Wow this thread has really taken off again, its great to see loads of other people having ld’s from this technique and adapting it to suit themselves. Due to a paperound and the fact that I can’t do wbtb because I live with my parents I havent therefore been able to try the technique as much as I would like.
Keep C-WILD’ing.
I almost 
succeeded with this technique again 
the other night.
I was lying there counting as usual, when I suddenly noticed my room looked completely different (it was dark though, but my bedroom door was open and the lit up room outside had a very different look, different walls and everything, and the door post was much more to the left).
Then I thought “hey, this looks weird, this isn’t my room…!” and then I suddenly was in my real room again.
I think this was a sign that I entered a lucid dream for a few seconds. 
I’m trying this tonight… I’ll post the results tomorrow when I get home from school.
so all you do is relax, count to 100, get up and do RC, then if u are not dreaming, count higher and do it again? is that right? 
I have to share this too:
After my research and into hipnotism i have to suggest you and small trick that would help with this technique!The only thing you have to do is to buy a cheap non-electronic alarm clock(you know these ones "tick-tack-tick-tack"and put it near your bed!So while you doing this technique your room must be very quiet otherwise it wont work!While you are onto bed try to focus on this sound of the clock the “tick-tack"and count like this"attention please”…–(tick-1…tack-2…tick-1…tack-2 and keep going with this phase while you are focus on hearing the “tick-tack”…!!!Hope to try this just to see what happens and hope to work for all of you!
Keep me posted plz i will apreciate your progress! 
What exactly would be the trigger to do a RC if you keep counting 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2?
I think he meant to say 1-2-3-4?
I was going to try this last night, but after I did a WBTB and started to get into the WILD state… my heart started racing and I couldn’t breathe comfortably. I tried ignoring it but I gave up and just rolled on my side and tried to go to sleep normally.
Trying again tonight hoping that doesn’t happen again.
This sounds like a really cool technique! But it seems like a lot of you can’t get it to work well I’m gonna try it right now. So we’ll see
That wasn’t C-WILD that is normal WILD, in this method you just count up untill a certain number (I found that in WBTB 20 is enough) then open your eyes do an rc and see if your LD’ing or not, if not go back to sleep or try again.
To answer the other questions that is all it is, when you wake up in the night (intentionally or not) just close your eyes and count in your head untill your desired number (test out what works for you) open your eyes do an rc (pinch your nose and try to breath for example). That is all there is to it.
I haven’t been doing lucid dreaming lots recently however tried this technique a couple of days ago however fell asleep before I did an rc. That is better then not falling asleep.
Remeber don’t give up.
I used to do this by accident before I understood what LD was. Ive always had trouble sleeping so getting up and doing something else was something that happened a lot when I went to bed. I would get up make a drink, read or watch a movie then go back to bed. I used to purposely think of something to concentrate my mind-like counting sheep or going through the alphabet- then I would find I still couldnt sleep so I get out of bed again and go out to the kitchen to make another drink, somewhere between my room and my kitchen I realise I am in a dream even though it seems to be very very real because 
I am either up on the ceiling or my hoover has a face…it doesnt in RL 
I was too scared though to understand I could control it because really weird things used to happen, I knew I was asleep, I used to try and physically open my eyes even though in the dream they were open…make sense? I would try and wake my sleeping self up rather than enjoy the dream. These days though i know what is happening so it doesnt freak me out so much.
I am so glad I ran into this site!!!