My WILD Induction Techniques

I recently came into the ability to WILD on command by accident, and this afternoon I kept careful watch on what I experienced as I was slowly sinking through various levels of consciousness, and wrote a blog of it.

"I tried again today to experience WILD, and as I was slipping through various levels of consciousness I kept note of the different experiences, for they were quite interesting.

  If you ever want to try this, take a period, say an hour where you have nothing better to do and you feel moderately fatigued, not tired enough to fall asleep. Lie down in bed and assume a comfortable position, but not *too* comfortable. The way I lie down, I sleep on my stomach with my hands under the pillow, and I seem to cross my ankles for this as well.

Then just breathe deep and even, but always always maintain a conscious feel for your body and always watch the inky blackness behind your eyelids. Your not trying to sleep, your trying to control your descent down the levels of consciousness.

Eventually, your heart rate, ironically won’t slow down, it will speed it, it will seem to pound within your chest. You’ll be able to grasp images beginning to appear in that inky black like a pool of liquid spreading outward. Then suddenly as you try to grab firm hold of the image, concentrate on it, it will disappear, and you might feel an odd feeling in your head, or hear a strange boom, and a shiver or tremble might pass through your body.

My theory on this is your brain knows your still awake, so it’s trying not to enter sleep-paralysis while you are awake.

This image appearing and disappearing may happen three or four or more times, but stay vigilant, relaxed, and above all don’t move a muscle, even moving your eyes while you relax can disrupt the process. Your extremities might begin to lose sensation, feel like there is an immense weight upon them, feel like they are floating on water or a cushion of air, and they might feel like they are burning up, have a fever. These I am assuming are all syptoms of sleep paralysis.

Sometimes you skip the ‘flying sensation’ and suddenly the image that appears is actually your brain entering the dream and it spreads outwards until it encompasses your vision, slowly coming into clarity, and you try to move your arms, and you can feel your arms moving, see them moving in your vision yet also, feel them still and unmoving on your body. Since your sleeping so lightly and conscious of the fact, even small noises can cause the image to fall away, so try to maintain a silent atmosphere.

        But if you feel the flying sensation, you might hear some strange booms and your body may be covered in shivers that sweep head to toe and back a few times, and then suddenly it'll feel like your spining, like in a gyro machine, or on a roller coaster, this past time it felt like I flew hundreds of feet in the air only to fall back down again, and as I was falling down I could see my arm in the air because of the rate I was falling, and upon reflection, I never moved a muscle, my eyes 'opening' to look at my arm was just my dream beginning.

I you are successfully in WILD, and you wake up, don’t worry, don’t move, and continue the same thing you did to get there, and you’ll re-enter the dream before a minute or two has gone by, unless what woke you is really distracting and constant. On a side note, doing over exciting things in your dream can what I assume to cause a shot of adrenline from your brain and will also wake you up.

And if you’ve gotten to this point, congratulations. Practice it, and when you can repeat it, you should be able to do it at will.

I mean, I had little time due to interruptions today, but I tried my ideas, I flew on the back of two dragons, one was covered in feathers, completely white and had a bird like visage and the other was the run of the mill dragon.

And then I tried my other idea, saw a puddle, jumped into it, and swam in an entire underground world with the ability to breathe underwater, though that worried me, so I left. I was a bit regretful I didn’t see any puddle-people. Got this idea from a website :grin: , and I need s’more ideas for tomorrow or whenever I feel that sweet-spot of fatigue.

I hope it works for you!"

If any of this is redundant due to imformation you most likely know already I’m sorry :content: But WILD came to me out of nowhere, it seems to work best for me only if I’m taking a nap somwhere between 10 am - 2 pm.

Wish you the best of luck in your pursuit of WILD

Ah… Interesting observations lvb. (Although, I cannot entirely agree with the “not moving a single muscle - not even your eyes” bit.) This being the last topic I read on the forum tonight I suppose I will give this a whirl and post results in my DJ tomorrow morning.

Goodnight. :yaaawn:

Haha you make it sound so easy! So I’m wondering if you could possibly give me a couple pieces of advice? Anyways I’ve been trying to WILD for the past month now and I seem to be getting closer and closer but i’m wondering…

  1. Is there anything specific I need to do to get through the transition phase? I’ve gone through it so many times but i’ve never successfully gotten to an LD.

  2. I have a fish tank that makes a bit of noise but nothing sudden ever comes out of it its just a constant “buzzing” or something like that. Anyways I can still hear it and I’m wondering if that might be effecting me? I automatically assumed that once I’m inside of the a dream I won’t be able to hear it so it wouldn’t matter in the first place…for example last night I was trying to WILD and a few times a I got a “shock” that surged through my body and when that happened it was almost like micro-sleeping, more specifically i didn’t hear the fish tank for a second and then it faded back into my hearing. After that a few times I felt as if i was in a dream for a few seconds as I saw myself with someone else (whom i didn’t reckognize) but it was in third person…it was like seeing a short 3 second film when all of a sudden i got that shock through my body again and the fish tank faded back into my hearing…Anyways do you think the fish tank might be effecting me?

Hmm, transition phase. I must tell you, the first two times, it was an accident and I had no idea what was going on. But as far as the transition… you know that feeling you get when your about to fall asleep but your mind flinches abit and brings you back awake? That seems to happen to me when I try atleast twice, are you reaching the SP point and the flying sensation?

As far as the fish tank goes, that shock your receiving is what I was just talking about, the flinching that brings you back awake. The buzzing, or any other constant noise that doesn’t change in pitch or vokume is called “white noise” and is commonly used to assist people in falling asleep. It creates a monotone wavelength that lulls your brain to sleep. I will try the next few attempts without any white noise in the backround, but the only thing I’d be worried about with white noise is falling alseep to deeply. If you can get to the point of seeing a short clip, then your nearly at the point of the WILD level of consciousness, when you grab at it, and concentrate, and it disappears, this should be happening before the flying sensation.

As far as going from the vision after SP into a full dreamscape, that I haven’t quite cemented out on how to do, but I have been trying to record everything that happens mentally, but I need to try it more before I have any definitive results.

Hmm white noise I remember that phrase now, thanks for that now I don’t have to keep thinking about that in the top of my head anymore! Hmm…Whenever I get a flying sensation, falling or floating sensation that usually happens to me earlier before I even hit the transition phase…unless I sit around in the transition for a really really long time, but it still doesn’t explain that i get all my sensations before I even got to see a short clip. Im definately going to try again before I go to sleep tonight and last night it seems to be the first time I’ve ever actually fallen asleep trying to WILD but I was really tired anyways. Although it seems I do have better dream recall whenever I WILD before I go to sleep…any ideas?

Hm, this is the odd thing about it, but I’m not sure if it’s only an individual experience. I used to need to nap alot due to my fatigue. Whenever I took a nap during the day, 90% of the time had really vivid and sometimes lucid dreams, and It was trying to nap that I first had a WILD experience. I try nearly everynight to WILD before I go to sleep and it’s never worked for me, but when I try when I take a nap I have so far a nearly 85% sucess rate. The individual experience in WILD or Lucid dreaming can differ so greatly it is really hard to boil it down to one technique or the other, but I would say try after you have been awake for an hour or so, and you feel fairly rested, or try it around 4-6 pm for an hour or two.

And when you try to WILD and you are getting HI then your on the right track, and slipping into the next tier of consciousness without going to far is going to be your next step. When your first receiving HI, and you can glimpse a scene for a few seconds I think is what you had said before (I think it was you :confused: ) is indeed microsleep, and the only thing I can think of right now is keep trying. I’m not sure if actually sleeping for a few hours and having vivid dreams would help the wake-initatied part of the experience any easier.

hmm yeah ive heard that taking naps in the middle of the day helps or sleeping before you try it, thing is I dont have a dark room during the day in my house at all! Well except for the laundry room which has a cold concrete floor with cat litter in it… haha well anyways I should just keep practicing and other advice you can get me would be great! I’ll come to you with further questions if I get any, thanks!

Thanks for the advice. I’ve only had about 3 or 4 successful WILDs and ironically they were when I barely knew anything about LDs. I had a crazy LD last week and I’ve gotten back into LDing. The problems I’ve had with WILDs is mainly not being able to make the true “shift” into a dream. When I start to feel the spinning sensations I get excited and my heart beats like crazy which really distracts me. I also hate when I’m about to WILD and then a small noise wakes me up. I think tonight I’m going to try to listen to one of the binaural beats that is supposed to help with LDs. I’m hoping it will keep me relaxed and block out small noises.

EDIT: Yeah so I wouldn’t recommend the using a “ld inducing” beat. I found it really uncomfortable to sleep with earbuds on. At one point I did feel as if I was going to go into SP, and my eyes were really twitching, and then the beat ended and startled me. After that I tried concentrating on something in my room hoping to blackout, but I couldn’t keep focus for very long since my eyes started to sting. Tonight I’ll just try the Counting/“I’m dreaming” method and see what happens.