Okay last night I realized that I had not been having that much LD’s at all so I decided I had better give WILD another try (this time I knew I had to be asleep for a couple of hours). So my alarm clock goes off at 4:00 (went to bed at about 10:00) and I went in to the recommended WILD routine. Started counting, got into a comfortable position and when I had got up to about 1200 I realized it didn’t seem to be working. My body was going numb but I didn’t see any HI and I didn’t have any auditory hallucinations. I gave up after that and decided to just go to sleep but I couldn’t get any sleep for the rest of the night .Any way I tried it again the following night and I gave up at about 500 and I still was kept awake for the rest of the night.
So I want to ask: On average, how long does it take to go to sleep using WILD and do any of you have trouble sleeping after giving up WILD . Would appreciate any help.
In the few times I’ve tryed WILD, I’ve had the same experience. I never seem to fall asleep, an I can never seem to fall completely asleep again and get a real full night’s rest after the attempts either…I’m going to stick around, cause I want to know what others have to say…
Some people here have alot of success using WILD …
I’m not one of them either. I get to the point of SP and HI but always fall asleep short of entering the dream. I’ve tried using this tech in the past for about 2 months straight and when I used it with WBTB It took me about 5min to reach that point where I fell asleep. But I’m one of those people that almost fall right asleep when my head hits the pillow anyway.
I concentrate now mostly on MILD before, and with WBTB.
All 4 of my LD’s so far has happened spontaniously during a dream. I’ve noticed that all of them has also occured after I’ve woken up and fallen back to sleep during the night or morning.
I’ll give WILD one last try tonight and if it keeps me up for the rest of the night…At least last night I had a lot of ordinary dreams when I tried WILD. A couple were even lucid but they quickly faded.
I guess i’m just not born to be WILD.
Shame though it sounded like the most unconventional method out there. I would have liked to have told my friends that I could paralyse myself and induce hallucinations.
Try doing after you’ve awakened from a dream in the middle of the night without moving. Just shut your eyes and imagine youself spinning on the axis of your bed until you find yourself lucid in a dream. Works much better.
When I tried WILDing I found it hard to get to sleep again as well, because when I almost fall asleep I remember about the WILD stuff again. However, I usually managed to fall asleep in a matter of ~20 minutes, and it got better after a few tries. Never actually managed WILDing, tough.
It’s only hard to WILD if you move (even slightly) after you awaken in the night. I can program myself to awaken at any time during the night without the need of an alarm clock. I just have to tell myself I will.
from my experience with wild. you need lots of determination to succeed. the only night ive gotten close to success were nights where i was extremely determined after talking on the irc chatroom. those nights i got the “pulling” sensation you get when becoming lucid. i think wild is more for people with not enough time to do any other technique, and those that fall asleep generally within 5 minutes of going to bed. when i count i can get to 20 before i start to drift and have to do sumthin else. i found that imagining a place and exploring it works much better than counting.
I think WILD may have actually worked last night. I woke up 4:00 like I usually do and went into WILD mode. I counted to 500 and decided to give up. I then tried a varied form of WILD in which I simply focused on a single scene in my mind and eventually that scene became more and more realistic and became a dream.
It was at my old house and only lasted a few seconds so was entirely unremarkable. But I tried the same thing and got something a little better.
I was in my room and I was looking at my computer. It had a very unusual screen saver which looked like something out of star wars movie. Then I realised it wasn’t my screen saver and it was a dream. Can’t remember much else except doing a couple of RC’s and telling my computer to open up my roof so I could try flying.
It was the LD after that which was the motherload. It was at my primary school and because of my experience with the previous couple of LD’s I could sustain it for a very long time. It was the longest LD I had ever had but I could not fly or do any dream magic. And all of this happened within half an hour real time.
So do you think I got the lucid dream becuase of the failed WILD attempt or my concentration technique that got me the dreams.
So that’s a total of seven lucid dreams not counting that first one that I’ve had since I joined.
.Any way I tried it again the following night and I gave up at about 500 and I still was kept awake for the rest of the night.
. Would appreciate any help.
