I’m not much of one to write a guide on WILD. I am ok, this is true, but I am not great and have not mastered WILD yet. This being said, I will do my best to guide you through doing WILD and working down the path towards mastering it. To start out, I will first say, WILD is hard. Anyone that says it is easy, well, it could be for them, but they are an extreme exception. WILD is one of the hardest lucid dreaming techniques to master and use night after night. It has many benefits though. WILD even if not fully realized, the experience leading up to a full on WILD is exhilarating and amazing to experience in and of itself. The vibrations, the sleep paralysis, the hypnogogic imagery, it is all amazing and fun. The things you learn about yourself, your mind, your abilities, and talents, it is all amazing and well worth endeavoring to discover. It might not be easy, but it is surely possible with enough practice, patience, and determination. Be motivated each night you try, for each night is another step towards your goal.
Where to start? This is not an easy question, but I believe it really doesn’t matter. Doesn’t matter if you have bad recall, fall asleep fast, have ADD, or anything really. With enough practice and determination, any problem can be overcome just be trying your best each night on your way towards mastering WILD. We shall start with going to sleep at night, nothing fancy, just going to sleep. To fall asleep at night, it generally helps to be relaxed, so let’s start with that. For myself, I relax by finding a comfortable position to lay down. I next take a deep breath and tense every muscle in my body at once as a sign to myself that all is about to start, and then I relax my muscles, breathing out feeling myself sink deeper. I then count my breaths, in “One”, out “Two, in “Three”, and so on and so forth until I achieve a light level of relaxation over my whole body. My body feels slightly heavy and slightly hard to move. Once you have achieved this, I myself believe you are ready to move onto the next stage, maintaining awareness while relaxing deeper and deeper.
Maintaining awareness is something that takes practice to learn. Since I believe that we have every night to practice and get better, not counting naps during the day, I take it slow in this process. I count my breaths in “One”, out “Two”, in “Three”, and so on, and keep counting until I notice that I zoned out and lost focus for a second. When I realize this, I take note of the last number I surely remember saying before losing focus and then restart my count. The goal to go as long as you can just thinking about counting your breaths in and out for as long as you can. The idea is to focus all your thought on the simple after of counting your breaths. Eventually you should feel yourself sink deeper and deeper, getting more and more relaxed. Once the body is relaxed enough, and the mind is quieted enough, with you just counting your ever so slow breathing, eventually Sleep Paralysis should hit you and your whole body should go numb.
At this point, you have a few choices. You can try focusing on your Hypnogogic Imagery to enter the dream, or you “feel” yourself rolling over falling out of your body into the dream. You can “pull” yourself up a rope, up out of your body. You can “Sit up” and look around at the dream. I find that focusing on movement sensations works rather well for stimulating the dream to pull you in. What works even better is to imagine, picture, visualize in front of your eyes, a scenario happening. Say, you could be running forward, towards a tall cliff, preparing to dive off of it. It is 100 meters in front of you, you run forward, feeling your legs moving, each step touching the ground, your leg pushing you forward towards the edge. The wind rushing past you, going through you hair. Notice the sun in the sky in front of you as run closer and closer to the edge. You near the edge, and leap, feeling the weightless of yourself as you fall towards the ground. You fall gaining momentum. You can choose, spread you arms and soar into your Lucid Dream, or hit the ground and feel the surge of energy flow through your body. The latter will most likely wake you and end the ld rather quickly, so I don’t really suggest that.
All that is left at this point is to enjoy the ld. What about prolonging it and increasing lucidity and whatnot? What then? Rub your hands, dream some lucid cola, spin once around. These are all good methods of doing those things. Jump and shout, increase lucidity now! Or else! That usually works. ;D Practice your technique each night, one step at a time. If you have problems with one thing, keep trying, it’s not always easy, and what works for others doesn’t always work for you. If something won’t work for you after a month (Yes a month. A week is not enough time to truly judge of something works for you or not. You might be as skilled as the previous person to find out in a week, or you might be having a bad time with something that is distracting you from trying your hardest. Regardless, give it a month.) then try something else. Try what YOU think will work. Belief plays a big role in lucid dreaming. You believe it will happen, want it to happen, are determined to make it happen, and try your hardest, you will definitely get what you want.
I think right here is a good place to call it quits. If you have any questions or want some advice on something or maybe some more tips, tricks, techniques, just let me know. I’m always up for helping.
Girby
~A wise man said nothing and everything was heard…. Aka shut up and listen. ~