Just spin around! 
Yes that is right. Just don’t get that excited when you notice that you are lucid. If you do then you might wake up from the dream.
I DID IT! 
my last post was during my first real attempt at lucid dreaming; I’d been taking it easy, letting myself get used to the idea, completely assimilating it in my head before I tried it.
Anyway, I read the “stay lucid” topic (thanks Dragon73) and went back to bed. I wrote down in my DJ the things I wanted to do, and ended up doing an unintentional WILD at the same time. Among the things I wanted to do was have a good chat with my spirit guide, but I talk to her all the time in real life so I summoned her immediately. She helped me keep my mind “awake.” What I realized is that WILD works so much easier if you’re not trying to do it. 
Funny thing though: I did have to keep a good amount of focus to keep myself asleep, but the problem was I was both in my real and dream body…If that makes sense.
I couldn’t rub my hands together for example, because my real body hands would move and the dream would go more quickly. It was tricky. So I tried other things, like shouting “I’m dreaming! I’m dreaming!” The spin worked once, though another time I felt my real body starting to turn before I stopped it alltoghether. Has this happened to anyone? Why? Isn’t sleep paralysis supposed to kick in at this point?
A post about multiple techniques having a negative effect was split to it’s own topic in General Lucidness called “Are multiple techniques detrimental?” 
Hey guys, what would you class as “falling asleep quickly?” I think I’m in this catorgory as I’d say it takes me around 10 minutes to fall asleep, give or take a few.
[quote="Yanielle"] What I realized is that WILD works so much easier if you're not trying to do it. :grin: [/quote]This is definitely true! You just have to relax and go with it but somehow try and keep your mind awake, not letting yourself fall to sleep but at the same time not thinking about it too much as then the brain gets over-active and you don’t become relaxed enough. Talk about trying to multi-task 
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for some reason, nightmares get me lucid really easily.
Before i learned all about the lucid stuff, whenever i would have a nightmare i would realise this is a dream and wake myself up! I didn’t know i could do things,or change the dream, i was just to scared i would shut my eyes and when they opened i would be in my room again! Now that i look back on this I get really mad because i havent had a nightmare since! 
Hmm, thats exactly contrary to my experience and understanding. It seems to me that DILD’s tend to start a little foggy because you realize your dreaming in he dream and the level of that awareness various. In a WILD you fall asleep consciously and as a result maintain the same awareness that you have when you were awake. Consequently, you enter the dream state with absolute awareness that its a dream.
Hey there,
Wow, thats a really helpful topic. I dont know whether someone asked this already, but doesnt the time that you need to fall asleep actually depend on your ability to calm your thoughts?
I’ve made the experience that when I expect certain things to happen (i.e. HI) or keep pondering about certain things I fall asleep very slowly but when I keep visualizing something or watch my breath I can fall asleep in 10 minutes. Is that just an illusion? Because it sounded to me when I read the first post that your either born a “fast time fall asleep” or the other way round?
Thanks already 
Nick
Ive seen this topic before, but never really followed it…
Ive just had a look now and its true… im highly motivated but a slow sleeper, and the techniquw that gives me the best results is MILD. =D
Good one 
I dont think that you are born as a slow or fast sleeper. When I was young I was very energetic most of the time and it was hard for me to get to seep fast, sometime i hardly managed to sleep at all ^^
baut years later, when I was about 16 oder 17 years old, I suddenly managed to fall asleep very quickly, without trying to change anything about my way of sleeping. It was like my inner attitude towards going to sleep has changed… Nowaday i find it hard to keep my mind awake, lets say for a WILD
Thank You!
that is an awesome guide
I’ve been dreaming for about 200 days plus and only had 4 lucid dreams
I’ve been drawing a symbol on my hand to go lucid
am I on the right track?
welcome to the forum thebotanist
well since you have had 4 LDs, you are on the right track.
Are you doing anything else to induce lucidity? Just waking up in the night and telling yourself you WILL know you are dreaming can make a big difference.
what would count as a long time to fall asleep? 30 minutes or more?
I think you have to use your own judgement … for me quickly falling asleep would be a guaranteed 30 mins or less every night. If it often takes more than half an hour then WILD probably isn’t for you except for when you are very tired at the time.
oh okay. sometimes it does take me a while to fall asleep, but going on my best guess i think 20 minutes would be a max for me, probably averaging 10 minutes.
thanks!
I am highly motivated and take long time to fall asleep.
I usually don’t wake up very early, so I use my alarm clock. How much sleep should I get before waking up? Around 5 hours?
I’ve never had a LD before, and have only attempted twice so far: the first time, yesterday night, I tried WBTB + WILD, but after 40+ minutes without SP I gave up.
In the second attempt, last night, I tried -hagart-'s FILD, but I wasn’t tired enough (even though I think I fell asleep once, lol).
Tonight I will try WBTB + MILD
Yeah if you are highly motivated and take a long time to fall asleep, WBTB + MILD will be a good one to do
Probably try wake up after either 4.5 hours or 6 hours as sleep cycles last about 1.5 hours. I dont use an alarm clock, I just tell myself before I sleep that I will wake up and it usually works, you can start off using the alarm but if you are doing WBTB every night you probably wont need your alarm after a couple nights
I just hope I will be tired enough. If I go to bed at 12 pm (00:00) and wake up at 6 am, then I’m tired, but if I wake up at 5 am, I’m not.
I don’t think I have ever set my alarm at 4 am, but I’m not sure if I will be tired enough after 4.5 hours of sleep.
Also, will I have to stay awake for an hour before attempting MILD, or can I do it instantly after I have woken up?
I think its supposed to be more effective if you stay awake for an hour or so, I usually try stay up for an hour or a bit longer and it works pretty well, I also take a long time to fall asleep, but this is good for MILD because is means you can go over your intentions for longer till you fall asleep so you may have a better chance of remembering them in your dreams. But everyones different so the best thing to do is to experiment, try different times and see what works best for you.
It didn’t go as expected.
I woke up (unintentionally) at 3:45 am, so I did the RC with the nose, and I could breathe!.. Unfortunately, I was so tired that I had forgotten to pinch my nose first, but I realized that a second later and tried again. I was not dreaming.
I thought to myself “I will know that I’m dreaming” while trying to fall asleep again.
I woke up again at around 9 am, but I was not dreaming now either.
Of all nights I could wake up by myself, it has to be when I plan on doing a WBTB.
Well well, I’ll try again tonight