And prospects for a repeat look good! I don’t get the opportunity to sleep much during the school year, so I usually end up being really tired when I get home, forcing a nap. However, this means I’m not nearly as exhausted late at night, around midnight or later.
I tried taking a nap during this portion, just a short one so I could get back to work on my homework. No breathing necessary, no 61-point relaxation. I actually saw the hypnagogic images fairly quickly, and about twenty seconds later I found myself in the dream (I was counting…) It wasn’t as vivid as I would have liked when it started out, but it got better as time went on.
So a combination of being slightly tired but still mentally alert (I had been doing homework just previously) combined to give me my first WILD ^ ^; Has anyone found any success with something like that?
Oh, and it happens to be my birthday today, as well. As far as presents go… this was by far the best x3
To be honest, I was reading Death in Venice. We have a couple essays due tomorrow (should really get started on those).
I think, based on what I’ve read about the hemispheres of the brain, that doing something like reading would actually be better than math. Logic is handled in the left side of the brain, which is stimulated by doing stuff like math, while creative processes and the “softer” kinds of knowledge are processed in the right, stimulated by drawing or reading. If I had to hazard a guess, I would think that dreams pull more from the right side than the left and hence math would almost be detrimental to LDing efforts. Eep.
Then again, I’m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination xD I’m just throwing theories out there to see what you all think.
It would be fun to test, though. I wouldn’t say no to upping my LD count ^^
wilds are only hard until you learn how then they are easy its just the getting there in the first place that takes the time like anything worth learning.
Conrats and happy Birthday too!
I have had the same sort of expereince, and im glad i am lucid as well becausei am ussaly dreaming about my Essays or HW! not so fun. but being the first dreams of the night they dont last long for me and i ussaly fall out of lucid pretty quickly until later that night.
Dont beleive all you read about that they are finding new evidence that although a lot of activity is found on the left side of the brain with math, or vis vs for creative things, ir panio, they are also finding links between the hems so that there is more stimulatin then we were first aware of.
If i can find the recent journal articles debunking that myth about left and right side alone then i will post it for you
anywayz congrats again, keeping your brain awake is the key to WILD and MILD in a sense to keep it up!
Well, the nap was during the night, so a little bit of both, I guess xD I took a nap earlier that day as well, though, for 3 hours. But the LD came during a second nap I took around 12:45 AM.
Thats happened to me before also interesting.!.
I myself haven’t got any yet 
but I will test your technique