I have the ability to WILD pretty much whenever I want..

Quest for Lucidity
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but here is my problem, I’m nervous to do it, or scared, or something. but I don’t want to be nervous of it. please read then give me some advice… here is my experiece when WILDing(when i choose to do it):

I lay down in bed. I get comfortable, then I don’t move a single muscle while I perform the WILD (I don’t even move a finger or toe). I tell my mind to remain conscious while my body falls asleep, all while imagining a place. When the WILD begins to work, my body feels numb, and every once in a while my body gets that excited feeling in my lower stomach (like falling). My body feels heavy, like a really heavy blanket is being dragged up my body from my feet to my neck. Here is the part that makes me nervous to WILD… I then begin to hear a very loud buzzing in my ears and feel as if my eyes are being electrocuted. I have remained calm during this before and proceeded to let whatever was happening just “take me.”

one time after that whole process happened I sat up in my bed, (thinking that I woke up, but I didn’t) and walked around my apartment doing random things and not realizing that I had never actually woken up. It was crazy because the way that it felt was indescribable. You know when people say “hey I had a dream last night, and something happened, and it felt so ‘real’?” Well this feeling of the dream being real was so far beyond that. I don’t know how else to describe it. However, another time I successfully WILDed, I had the same feeling except I knew that I was in the dream world, but I couldn’t talk, and it felt hard to breath. I was trying to get up on my feet and walk but all i could do was roll around on the floor while unsuccessfully trying to get up.

The buzzing and feeling of my eyes being electrocuted makes me feel nervous I don’t know why. when I am dreaming normally I sometimes realize I am dreaming and I can do pretty much whatever I want (fly places usually), but when I WILD, there are a lot of times when I have no control over my body. I tried rubbing my hands together in the WILD but that didn’t stabilize me, I couldn’t try the spinning thing because I couldn’t even stand in my dream. I need to get to a point where I am not nervous in my WILD attempt, and then I need to get to a point where I can control what I do in my WILD like I can when I have a regular lucid dream. I want to learn this control over my WILD because the lucid dreams from WILDs are so much more intense and real than when I just realize i’m dreaming while i’m dreaming.

any advice?

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just put your foot down, tell your mind that you enjoy being electrocuted and that you enjoy buzzing noises. get yourself used to it and overcome fears, and if you REALLY want that lucid dream, and you want it tell yourself you’d go through those fears JUST to get it. Make those ‘fears’ fun, like you enjoy it

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The buzzing in your ears is because your body is about to change from waking mode into sleeping mode. As you can assume this is happening every time when we are falling asleep only difference is when you do it consciously you can be aware of it and it can make you nervous because you are not accustom to that experience.

AJ’s advice is one of the possibilities. Usually when I get to body sensations like buzzing, vibrating, floating and such I let myself fall asleep because your body is trying to do that anyways so you can help it a little bit.

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cool, thanks for the replies. here is another question. I tried this last night and got to the whole buzzing thing and weird sensations and such. though i was conscious of what was happening i had no control. i tried flying but i couldn’t do anything short of sitting up in my bed (in the dream). but the whole time i was trying to fly or move around i was still hearing the buzzing as well as feeling weird sensations in my face. is the reason i couldn’t fly or move around too much because i was trying to do that stuff too early? like i was almost there but i just got impatient and tried to do cool stuff too early? when my WILD is successful I shouldn’t hear any buzzing anymore right?

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Well there is no certain thing in topic about lucid dreaming :content: so I can’t actually say how your WILD attempt or dream is going to look like.

I didn’t ask but it seems to me like you are doing WILD at bed time? I never managed to do that and honestly I don’t bother to do it. The dreams that we remember from first REM cycle are very pale and I guess if you are becoming lucid in first or second REM cycle that this is maybe your problem.

If you are not doing WBTB I would advice to try that. Because then you can enter 3rd or 4th REM cycle which is much stable and much longer.

If you are not doing WILD with WBTB I guess that’s because of what I said. First dreams are not stable and your waking consciousness may still be the dominant one. If you do it with WBTB then I guess that your guess is true, maybe you were trying to reach and interact with the dream too early!