So, I think I’ve gotten closer to reaching lucidity than before. This time I was trying VILD. I’ve only tried it twice, because but before then I didn’t think it would be very reliable. But so far my two attempts may have gotten close, although the first time I tried it I didn’t get to go very far because I was only resting and I had to do stuff after, so I stopped.
But today, I tried it again along with WBTB, and I think I got very close. This was once I started dreaming (I think? it was very strange): It didn’t come out exactly like I had planned it, but I started walking up these steps that circled around a tower. I was going higher and higher, but eventually I fell through one of the steps, and I grabbed onto a specific golden step. I tried to pull myself up, but with all the force I was putting onto it, it snapped and I fell. When I feel, I started blacking, I felt this strange feeling in me, like my “soul”, if you will, was going back into my body. The feeling was quick, but not too fast.
Then I started over, this time at some other place I can’t really remember, but something similar happened, I blacked out, and felt the same feeling once more.
At this point, I think I tried taking control, or my subconscious was subconsciously taking control of my dream (if that makes sense lol). Point is, I started trying to interfere with the scene, but I didn’t completely realize I was doing this, and maybe I wasn’t really doing anything, but instead it was all part of the dream? I’m not sure.
So I “willed” for me to start climbing those steps again, as I felt that that feeling would help me become lucid. I climbed the steps again and tried mimicking the very first scene ( although I could feel something was a bit off this time), and eventually fell and felt the sensation once more.
After that, I think i woke up…
This was very confusing to interpret. I want to say this was related to VILD, but maybe it wasn’t? The last part, where I try to mimic the first scene does seem like VILD, but I think I may have already been asleep at that point.
Does this seem close to lucidity, or what?
The fact that I actually tried to mimic the scene within the dream makes me think I was close to being lucid…
And that sensation when I black out was peculiar too…