Getting Closer...

Quest for Lucidity
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Last night I just thought “Ah what the heck, I’ll try to WILD again, just for kicks”.

I lay there for a while, waiting for something to happen, just when I was starting to feel that nothing was coming, my legs started feeling funny and it jolted my attention back. I was strangely attentive through all of this experience, and it’s the closest I’ve ever got to a successful WILD.

After the strange feeling washed over me I felt like I was tipping in a certain direction, but then after a minute or so the direction would shift. It felt pretty neat actually. A few minutes later this passed, and my body felt more relaxed, I felt a… I don’t want to say numbness, seems a bit extreme, so I’ll go with a lack of sensitivity. It was all over my body.

I started getting very thin lines behind my eyelids, and my body ‘tipped’ a bit more. I could almost feel my senses receding to my mind. My mouth opened slightly once or twice during this part so I just very gently closed it without drawing my attention. Sometimes I would get a big feeling of elation “I’m nearly there, I’m nearly there!” but I remembered a post to say to just be absolutely passive about everything so I quietened myself.

I remembered the LD quest, so I thought about that for a while, but I couldn’t keep concentration and started thinking about cars, which for some reason now seemed to be taking up my mind. Different thoughts entered my mind, I just took them as they were, a few times I tried my own thoughts but it didn’t work so well. Every now and then I would try to imagine myself “reaching out” to pull myself in, but it wouldn’t work.

All the time I felt closer and closer to reaching my goal, but then the whole experience seemed to plateau, then I felt an odd tingling in my left foot which slowly vibrated around my body, this passed relatively quickly. All the time I was having alternating thoughts. I kept trying to pull myself in with no avail, I even tried imagining the character I had created for CALD holding my hand and pulling me in. Still didn’t work.

After a while, my real life hand twitched (it kind of jumped, actually), and it distracted my attention a fair amount. I felt the sensation quickly go down a few notches and I silently cursed myself, even though that hand thing was completely out of my control.

I don’t know how long I lay there, but after a while of staying in the same sensation, inable to go any further, I decided to call it a night, I’d like to think I did very well for this attempt, and I’ll take it as extra experience under my belt.

It was quite strange, I slowly opened my eyes a crack, and moved my body, it was quite sluggish, I found it funny for some reason and laughed quietly a little. I rolled over and let my normal sleep take me away.

In the morning, even as I type this an hour later from getting up, my mind is very tired, but my body is not. I must have mentally exhausted myself the previous night, but I felt fine while it was all happening. Also this morning I had no recall, even though I’ve been doing quite well recently after my year long absence. I do not know if I can’t remember anything due to aforementioned mental tiredness.

I am undecided as to whether I will try WILD again tonight or not. Last year when I was new to this, I tried something similar to WILD and freaked myself out, but now I am more the wiser, all in all I enjoyed the experience thoroughly.

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Firstly, good post.

Alright a few things i might touch up on.

Well done.

WILD is not something that everyone can be good at, some are good, and then there are the masters at it which can make you LD at will. All of which take practice.

Your body, and mind, after a long day drop through the brain wave stages (lets call them for easy sake) and then rise back up. There is a post somewhere on here that explains it but I will quickly write a very basic idea now.

  1. Awake (beta)
  2. Awake but drowsey relaxed(alpha)
  3. deep relaxed, mediation, REM(theta)
  4. Deepest state yet recorded, very deep mediation lack ( or what appears to be a lot less) brain activity.

When you first go to bed it goes like this

1 -2 3 (without dreams) - 4 (stays here for some time then back up) 3 , (then you kick into REM this last for s ahsort period then you fall back 2 -1 then rise again the longer you sleep the longer time you will spend in REM (which by the way is as active as waking life)

If you try to wild as soon as you go to bed you have to go through stage 4 3 2 1 2 REM 2 1 etc etc so it takes along time, each cycle takes about 90 minutes or so. if on the other hand you go to sleep wak e up in the middle of the night you can go 2 (REM ) 2 1 2 (REM) so its uch quicker, also as you are already relaxed you will find that you are not waiting so long to go to sleep and therefore dont get bored and wake up.

You menitoned that you felt a flick or pulse in your hand after some time, thts actually your brain sending a pulse to that part of your body to make sure tis not dead, not helpful but good to know you are still alive.

The more you try, the quicker and easier its going to get, i would try for sometime, at least a week every night before giving up again, read about it as much as you can and enjoy your self.

Try the WB2B method, it will help you if you can do it, you wont get as frustracted, well hopefully.

And i cant rememebr what else i wanted to say its been an hour sinse i started i have been doing other things so good luck!

Let meknwo how you go in a week by PM

Rich

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I will, thanks for the descriptive response. I forgot to say in my last post, it wasn’t a bad attempt for saying all the time I had the song “Girls, Girls, Girls” by Motley Crue going around my head, it may have been the thing that kept me attentive, I don’t know, hehe.

But yes anyway, I will read up more about it, and I’ll try WBTB again. I tried it a couple of times before but each time when my alarm would go off, I would be quite annoyed that I’d have to get up, haha.

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That’s the spirit. :wink: I try to do this as much as I can. If you try to see anything good in your LD’s and LD attempts it really helps keeping you motivated. Even if you’ve only gone a tiny step, it’s good to see you’re going forwards…

WBTB is very good when you have the time for it, so it’s good for practice I beleive. And LD’s themselves also increase motivation. And motivation is the key fro lucid dreaming. :grin:

So read a lot about anything you can :shy: and keep it up!

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you will get used to it. let me know how you go in aweek or so.

Rich

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This morning I had a stupid moment. I had set my alarm to go off about 4 hours after I fell asleep, but then I woke up for no reason almost exactly an hour before it was due to go off.

Instead of thinking “Oh well I might as well try WBTB now” I think “ARGH THERE’S NO POINT NOW, IT’S RUINED” and turn my alarm off and go back to sleep.

Oops.

It’s screwed with my recall as well, I think, I don’t remember anything.

Never mind, try again.

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:smile: the mind plays funny tricks on you when you are awoken when you shoulnt be, best of luck try again :smile:

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lol if i set my alarm for WBTb I wake up and turn it off before it goes off and just go to sleep, because I am very concerned it will annoy me and dread having a stupid alarm randomly waking me up
ironically this is when I SHOULD WBTB

the other thing it does is give me tons of FAs about getting up to turn my alarm off.!

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In that case wouldn’t an ideal thing to do is to do a RC as soon as you wake up?

/me does a RC right now.

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ideal yes , easy no. when you are just waking up unless the passion is burning iside you the last thing you want do to is think and the first is go back to sleep.

It should be done though and even if it proves you are waking the chance of going lucid after are very high