Hello good people of LD4all! It’s been more than a long time.
Today, after returning to the practice of LDing but a few weeks ago, I believe I’ve had my first succesful WILD, enough to make me feel the happiest person in the planet.
Begin from the start, shall we?
I managed to do all procedures to WBTB WILD. Everything alright. Waiting, and waiting, mantaining a certain thread of consciousness, when my eyes started opening, not my real eyes though, rather, dreams eyes.
I could not see clearly, but I was standing in my bedroom, I tried walking, but stumbled and crashed everywhere, the clarity was horrible, I demanded clarity and tried spinning, but my dream eyes began closing, and I woke up.
The thing is, I don’t recall feeling paralysis at any moment, and when I woke up, it didn’t feel like I was out of a dream, but as if I had seen an hallucination, I’m not sure, so I came for your aid, was that a dream? If so, what must I do to have more clarity?
I see it as common misconception that when one is successful with WILD that one will have great lucid dream. Even when one WILDs it doesn’t have to be lucid from the first second, sure you’ll say that that wasn’t a true WILD then and it’s open to debate but the important is that you hold to awareness until you find yourself in a dream. As in every transition from waking to dream state we do loose awareness at some point and how fast we gain that awareness again is seen in whether we WILD or DILD.
So that’s the problem with induction techniques, if you are successful with induction it doesn’t mean that you’ll have so to say successful lucid dream. This are two separated problems and that’s what happened to you. You were successful with induction but not with the dream too. Don’t get me wrong, you were successful very much only not in the way as you wanted and that is having a great lucid dream.
But step by step, now you have to realize that you did a great job and give yourself credit. Now try to have as much as possible lucid dreams so that you can train yourself how to be better inside the dream. Everything you did for more clear dream you did good. Sometimes this things don’t work for the first or second time. So don’t look at this as a waste of your time, on a contrary you’ve learned a lot.
Some techniques won’t work for you and others will, so more lucid dreams to test those techniques. Now don’t drop your training in becoming lucid, that’s essential to become good in dream itself!
