First Steps to WILD part III (Basic WILD Q&A)

1st log onto the forum. Then go UP to the little thing in yellow that says Quest for this Moon:Resize yourself :user: My post will be on the second page :content:

alright thanks i’ll read it

So I just tried to WILD and had some issues…

#1 Dry Mouth
#2 Swallowing

Both of these created a repeated distraction for me. Any advice?

Hmm, I’ve never had that problem before, but I have had distractions that kept me from trying the WILD, such as itchiness or some weird nagging feeling that I had to move my hand in another position. Maybe you should drink some water before trying WILD, and try not to think of swallowing or your mouth. Breathing from your nose and not your mouth can help. :smile:

I have always been unsuccessful with WILD. How do I get past the HI? I wait and wait, but I never see any HI images come up. I might see a few faint sparkles of color every now and then, but no pictures. How am I supposed to enter the WILD state, then? :neutral:

Hi ive been trying to wild for the past few nights now and the same thing keeps happening when i do.
I go to bed and relax myself and chant “Im dreaming 1, Im dreaming 2, etc” and i have also tried alot of other things.
I have also tried to look for HI, and bright lights and stuff like that, and this is where the problem starts. I dont know if its HI or just a black cloud behinde my eylids, So when this happens i continue chanting and try to think of a past dream i had or a dream i would like to have. I can feel my HANDS go tingaly and numb and thats all on a few occasions my feet felt a bit weird and on 1 occasion i could feel them get heavier and i new SP was finnaly kiking in this was all after about 30 mins - hr but everyime i happens its lasts for like a minute then gradualy dissapears and feels like i only just hoped into bed and nothing happens? Pleas help

sorry for not answering your questions… but i have little experience with WILD :meh:
anyway… i would like to know some details about WILD… until now i didn’t use WILD but i want to try it so i ask…
i understand everything until SP… well you try to stay awake while your body falls asleep and when that happens SP occurs und what next?
and the other thing is that i can’t imagine being awake in the dream if i’m not even really awake in reality… well i mean… if you wake up at night you are pretty tired and then you try WILD… but i can’t imagine being then awake in my LD ~.~
so can you please tell me something about it?

Ive been trying to WILD the past couple of nights as well and I’ve met the same difficulties as Bilzo described:

Could someone please help me (and Bilzo) with this problem?

Maybe you concentrate too much your attention on you body parts. Do not.
You must focus on the images you can see in your mind.
The more you focus on your body, the more you will have difficulties to fall asleep consciously.

I´ve read someone saying that counting to 400 would induce WILD, but he always sleeps or get bored in the middle
so, once I have some trouble sleeping sometimes, I though: well, I´ll just count to 400 If I have a LD, good, If I don´t ,good also cuz Ill sleep anyway…
what indeed happened was quite different… I started counting…
1-300 just relaxed
300-400 started feeling something weird, then opened my eyes
well, I wasn´t dreaming so I tried again but 500 this time
1-100 relaxing
100-400 I started to get that feeling again… it´s a feeling I´m VERY used to, but just can´t remember when I felt it… that sounds paradoxical…
400-500 thought I was dreaming, so started moving… but i wasn´t…

so here I go again
1-400 a little of the feeling
400-1300 nothing, and I started going crazy and couldn´t sleep

once this was on the evening, I went to my yoga normally, but had some pain in my eyes
at night, I tried again, and counted to 1700… I felt a little of that sensation… but after it I wasn´t paralyzed … and I couldn´t sleep … it was frustrating and uncomfortable

anyone knows how can I overcome this?

I’ve been trying to WILD for the past week with little success. I have two major problems. The first being that I don’t see any HI. That generates from the fact that I’m not completely sure I’m in SP. You see, my body goes numb, and I know that’s not SP. But then I get this definite feeling that I know something is different, but I can still move if I really wanted too. Then, I try to concentrate on the strange colors I see behind my eyelids, but every time I try to look at them for longer than a few minutes, they disappear, and I have never gotten anything near “images.”

The second is something that really helps me in everyday sleeping, but has become quite bothersome in the past few weeks of attempting to LD. I fall asleep fast. Not exaggerating, if I try to sleep, it takes me 10 seconds tops. Because of this, I have to work to keep myself consciously awake. I think this might be interfering with my WILDing, but I’m not sure, because I don’t keep myself too awake.

In any case, I still have no idea how to get my HI (if it is in face HI) clearer. Any thoughts would be appreciated. :woo:

princerocker … since you go to sleep so fast WILD is definitely the method for you.
The problem may be that you are focusing too much … you have to casually observe them.

may be try something slightly different … if you are good at visualising something maybe visualising your own object while doing WILD or even doing VILD may work better.

full topic → link to archive topic
and
Vild link - Visually Incubated Lucid Dream - Dreamer incubates a specific dream setting in which he/she will do a R.C and then become lucid

Hey there!

Well, I tried WILD last night after a long time, and I think I got pretty far because I started to hear noises, and my body went quite numb… but I just have a couple questions and was wondering if anyone could help me with them?

  1. Are you supposed to be unable to move your body? Because at some points, it’s very challenging to move an arm (for example), but I still could if I really wanted to,

  2. What am I supposed to do when my eyes start to go crazy (blinking and kind of spasm like?)?

  3. I’m having a really hard time keeping my eyes closed. I’m not sure what it is, but last night when I was attempting WILD, I was following certain colours and shapes in my eyelids. I realised that these shapes were turning into my bedroom, but the exact same view of my bedroom as if I opened my eyes (I hope that makes sense? Like, if I opened my eyes I would see my wall, a little bit of my pillow and my bedpost, and in my eyelids, it would turn into that exact view). So, after I realized these shapes were my bedroom, I tried to anchor myself into them and the dream, but I would end up actually opening my eyes and being in my actual room (I did many reality checks). And I got so close too! But I would always open my eyes…

Any advice? It would be greatly appreciated!!

I’m going to start to use the Wild teq. tonight. I was wondering if you have any suggestions on what to do or a place where i can go to find info. I find that WILD info is all scattered. Thanks…

Well I’m off to try WILD for the first time wish me luck, heh. Night

Wow, thank you moogle, I will definitely try that one out tonight. I’m not that great at casual observation (I end up studying and analyzing them, even trying to interview them at times. haha) But I am pretty good and visualizing. Maybe after a while, I’ll even start talking to the banana. Taha, I bet it will have plenty of interesting things to say. I’ve always wondered what life would be like as a banana.

Thanks again! :grin:

im off to do the same thing.

good luck!

Whoa, canadian! Welcome :wink:
Good luck

well I get to tell you what happened. Can you guess? If you guessed almost nothing you’d be right. I was really relaxed laying there counting steps and my mind was blank until i saw some green for a second and then it went away and i guess i just fell asleep. Then i woke up in the middle of the night the first time and i remembered the dream i had but fell back asleep before i would decide to get up or not and I woke up again soon after having forgotten it. So then I woke up this morning disappointed to having left an empty journal space but I do feel surprisingly well rested. :wink:

well rested? well consider your self lucky :wink: most people find the opp with WILd for the first time. Keep trying.

kT4all, i think that everyones expereince and desire to share them is something that should encourraged to be shared not discourraged.

The desire to share will foster the will to win.

no action for me last night either.
i was doing the “imagine yourself walking down steps and counting each step as you go” … i must have gotten bored and dosed off. i fall asleep very easily sometimes.
i woke up 4 or 5 times throughout the night and tried to do WBTB technique… although i wasn’t getting up and really “waking up”… so instead of having LDs i just had excellent dream recall.
which is ok too :smile:

btw im canadian too. northern ontario.