third night WILD, RC in dream help?

Quest for Lucidity
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doing WILD is giving me interesting results each time, this is my third night in the row with experiencing a lucid like dream each one I’m gaining a better awareness and doing more RC… this night was interesting.

In total i had three very detailed dreams, my lucid like dream was after 6 hours of sleep, i woke up and recalled my dream, wrote everything i could.
I then I listened to a hypnotic recording to drill the thoughts and desire of a lucid dream. 20-30 mins later i begin to focus on WILD a technique I’m nervous to do because i fear of SP.

Like always i count to 60 1… i’m dreaming, 2 I’m dreaming.
i feel my muscles twitch and occasionally images surface in my mind, i tell myself if i feel uncomfortable in anyway i will stop.
I do this for perhaps 15-20mins

eventually i just stop telling myself that I’m not going to think about this anymore, i just want to sleep if i don’t experience a lucid dream then that’s ok maybe next time.
shortly i suddenly feel a weird sensation, a heaviness… i recognize this feeling from last night… i said to myself this is a dream!.. i feared of looking at my hands and going into
a psychedelic trip like last time, but i go for it i look at my hands and they look normal (but they are not… they are blurry)

I’m feeling very sleepy so I’m convinced that my vision is just out of it, but i keep trying to RC i try to push my fingers through my palm… everything is still normal.
so I’m convince I’m still awake so i go back to bed… i start hearing a song from a band i enjoy (the smiths) i hear the guitar first then the drums… the song keeps getting more vivid… now I’m actually hearing The singer’s voice but
not actually the words but the tone he sings at, the more i focus on the song the more original it becomes as i put my own creativity into it.

suddenly I’m laying face down on my bed… I’m thinking is this a dream?, i start willing myself to float, rise up but i don’t want to open my eyes, i rise all the way onto my feet, i for some reason feel like jumping out of my room so i do, then i do an amazing jump back onto my balcony
(my room has no balcony =P) I am still questioning myself… is this a dream? if it is i should be able to fly… i can’t fly.

I try to manifest something but it does not appear… I’m convince that this is no dream.

I then actually wake up and realize damn that was a dream… why were some of the RCS successful and others not. why didn’t i notice the ones that failed.

well that was my experience, tonight i will be trying again but take a bit more of a break from all of this.
Anyway i would appreciate any input anyone has on this.

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Nice experience you had there :happy: Not every RC works everytime, specially if you don’t truely expect it to work (I mean tell you it’s a dream). My hands also look like that, out of focus, instead of more or less fingers like other people. It’s gotten me lucid a few times but it’s a bit subtle and you can easily find a “reason” why they are like that, like you did.

Getting lucid more frequently from RC’s comes with practice, I think. I used to miss getting lucid a lot in the past (still do every now and then). What’s really important when doing a RC is thinking “is this a dream?”, really questioning your surroundings and expecting it to be a dream.

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yeah i agree with you, that dream made me realise i need to RC in more ways and find a way to become more aware.

i found it really odd that i didn’t question the high jumping i did… it was very unrealistic, onto my balcony… when i have no balcony… that should of been enough proof that i was dreaming… i laughed when i woke up thinking… damn am i that dense =P

i guess it’s because WILD gives me such a seamless transition to the dreamworld that i really have to make sure if I’m awake or hallucinating, things are so real that that i just don’t know.

Anyway Mattias i really dig your dream journal on the forum, I’m thinking of doing one myself with my own goals and intentions for lucid dreaming but i got only one goal right now with lucid dreaming and it’s a little embracing to say haha.

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:grin: Making a DJ here really helps. The list of goals I made has been helping me a lot too!

And you’re not dense! It happens to everyone. With a bit more experience these things tend to get less frequent… I’ve been LD’ing for two years now and just the other night I did a nose RC and could breathe through my pinched nose: didn’t get lucid. :lol: And yeah, the seamless transition can really get you :bored:

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how many lucid dreams have you actually experienced and i mean in the ones where you are in total control?

i had another similar dream this morning after WBTB, all of my lucid like dreams have been me waking up in my own room. I’m getting an interesting sensation of a sudden heaviness or lifting before i enter a dream which help me get prepared.

(I’m in the dream now)
I wake up I’m in my room and i notice it’s night time… I’m thinking to myself… no way!.. did i honestly sleep the whole day, no that’s impossible this has to be a dream… i can tell the dream is not vivid enough so i try spinning i come out from the the spin and see only a pattern, I’m thinking ok i’m going to rub my hands and see if i can fix this… i don’t… i get nervous but suddenly realise that my bed sheet is covering my face… i woke up already >______<;

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lol, congrats on the LD :wink:

I’m not sure how many I’ve had… if by total control you mean TOTAL control, I’ve probably had none :sad: But I’ve had a few decent ones, but most of them are short low lucid ones…

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by total control i meant you are able to control, create and experiance whatever you wish.

I never experianced such dreams, i always desired this kind of freedom and when i found out about lucid dreams i just knew i have to achieve this.

Anyway i really admire your dedication.

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thanks :grin:

I haven’t achieved that total control… yet! I think I should work on my lucidity first. Learn how to induce and maintain a decent level of lucidity and then learn how to control, without worrying about waking up :tongue: