Is it HI?

Quest for Lucidity
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Its been 9 times that i have tried and failed to have LDs with the WILD method and one of my problems is that im not sure if i fully grasped the idea of HI. Im sure i kind of get it but there is always the possibility of placebo so i was wondering if any one can evaluate one of my so called HI experiences and see if i am on the right path:

At this point i was fully relaxed and i saw a watermelon seed so i picked it up and planted it but from the seed immediatly grew a sickly looking bannana, so i picked up the bannana and all of a sudden found myself sitting on a recliner couch and then from where i planted the seed an ironing table grew from the soil and all of a sudden everything went pitchblack with exceptions of some blue dots that seemed like stars, then i saw a coke bottle so i picked it up and drank it then i suddenly found myself in a cabin then i saw a wooden carved statue of a native american and i put my hand on the shoulder of the statue as i started to admire it and at this point the statue seemed almost life like and fully interactable.

when i thought about it this seemed to match the description of HI but i hate the placebo effect so i just wanted to make sure.

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I’m not an expert, but that’s what I’ve always thought of HI as. Once I used WILD by accident (I was trying to zone out, but couldn’t manage it…), and that’s the kind of thing I saw before I fell in to my dream, except obviously they were different images. I wouldn’t trust what I have to say too much, though. :tongue:

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HI is not a placebo affect.
I use it all the time to usually reenter in the dream state after waking.
I do use it when I fall aslepp but I find it better after I have already awoken from dreaming then returning.

All I do is visualize something easy at first like an object. Onc I have the vision in my mind nice and clear i will change from my object to a place like my house/room. I relax and take my time and keep at it until it gets more and more vivid and before I know it I’m standing in my dream room ready to do what ever I want. Sometimes I do have to pull my self into my dreams but thats something else.

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There is no possibility of placebo in this case.

What you describe looks like the moment when HI transform into the beginning of a dream. When you say: the statue was “almost life like and fully interactable”, you certainly weren’t very far from a LD.