What I tried & What Happened Last Nite

Quest for Lucidity
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(just finished writing it, sorry it’s so long but I’d really like answers cause i’m really confused)

OK i was reading these forums before i went downstairs to my room. Then I watched part of Aliens 3 and painted my nails then went to bed in a half hour or so probably around 12:30am. I had my alarm set for 4:30am and was counting backwards 100, 95, 98, 97, 96, 95 I will dream about cars, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, I am dreaming…And keep repeating these until I fell asleep. Is this the MILD method or what, (not sure about all these definititions, it’s been awhile since I’ve been here. Anyhow I don’t think I dreamt about cars but at 4:30am the alarm went and scared the crap outa me and I didn’t know what it was at first then realized it wasnt going about so I got outa bed and tried to turn it off. Except ya know how when certain limbs fall asleep usually cause it’s been in one place for awhile and goes numb then tingly? When it was completely numb, never been like that before. So I was standing there smacking the alarm with this numb arm and actually had to use my other hand cause to turn it off I have to turn a nob to the right spot. Then i went to the bathroom, brushed my teeth blah blah, jumped up and down a couple times to make sure I was awake and since I couldnt get online to look at LD stuff and had nothing in my room I sat down to watch another half hour of Aliens 3. Then I jumped around some more to make sure I was awaker and layed down again. Now I heard it’s extrememly important not to move while trying WILD but as soon as I know I’m not supposed to move i suddendly have little annoyances like a little inch or I need lip gloss. And my nosed was stuffed so i was breathing through my mouth and my mouth dried out grrrr on this stuff. but i started counting backwards from 100 and saying thinking in my head I am dreaming every 10 counts. It started getting a lot harder and my mind started to wander, I was seeing pictures and stuff of people and places I knew. Is this the hypnogoic (dunno how to spell) images and stuff? Cause It was keeping me distracted from the counting. I dont know if I was hearing stuff but I started feeling maybe a slight vibration in my leg and a tingle in my arm but maybe that’s just me thinking that’s supposed to happen. And shortly after I fell asleep. But I’m still really ify on this. Like I’ve read a bunch of the WILD forums and stuff but what exactly am I supposed to do when I get these tingles? Am i supposed to just go into a dream? I heard someone say something about trying to move?

Later on though I think I did go lucid in part of a dream. I was outside wal-mart where my bf works waiting for him to get off work. Except it wasn’t wal-mart it was some other place. Big fancy hotel/restaurant/indoor theme park/mall. The place rocked. Anywho I was with some kids trying to skateboard or something. I think it was some kid I work with and his friends. But I wasn’t that bad on the skateboard while waiting for my bf. It was weird cause in the dream it felt like I wasn’t waiting for just him, like at the back of my mind i was trying to remember to LD or something.
And this is where it gets kinda embarrasing cause when he came out my intentions where very clear. I wanted to get some. Even if it was in the Super Wal-Mart’s parking lot. Lately I’ve been having a lot of dreams like that. Where I want to get some and I do and the second I do I go lucid. I think I actually told him something like that. Like, “Hey when we have sex tell me I’m lucid”, I said something like that to him. He didn’t tell me that but I went lucid and had an orgasm in my sleep. That’s what’s been happening a lot lately. I’ll have sex with him or my ex and get off in my sleep. One time i think I was lucid cause I was thinking, “this is great i want to again” and I did a bunch of time until it woke me up.

Also maybe it was just after this dream or before it or maybe after another dream, at some point in the nite I woke up and closed my mouth. I was still breathing through my mouth (trying not to move to try WILD) and my mouth was all dried out. I think it was aftter this dream.

Basically the bottom line off all this is…Did I try MILD before bed and WILD after I got up after a couple hours of sleep the way I’m supposed to try them or did I miss something?

PS> THX a bunch for reading and any help…i’ll luv u forever :tongue:

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MILD is when you repeat something to yourself before you go to sleep in the hopes that your subconscious will pick up on it and you’ll wake up in the middle of a dream

WILD is never losing consciousness and going from an awake state to an LD

IMO it sounds like you’re trying to WILD, counting down and telling yourself you’re dreaming is a WILD technique if i’m not mistaken. in the middle of counting you’d look around and see that you actually were dreaming cause you had fallen asleep.

i’m not a big fan of the WILD technique (mostly because i’m terrible at it) i like just doing some sorta intention for 5 minutes and then just relaxing and going to sleep (i don’t do the intention until i fall asleep cause i’d never fall asleep) i usually say something like this (this is a MILD intention btw):

“i’m going to have a lucid dream tonight. i will recognize the dreamscape”

but now i have a question for you. when you orgasm in a dream do you wake up? and this statement:

do you mean you had multiple orgasms until you woke up?

i find it interesting, because until recently i ALWAYS woke up after i had an orgasm in a dream, and you actually use yours as a dreamsign

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When I orgasm in a dream it wakes my mind up (I go lucid) and then usually I almost wake up then decide to stay so I calm myself down and stay asleep but awake in the dream. And yes i guess it was multiples until I woke up but that has only happened once. And I never meant to use it as a dreamsign, there was never any intention for it to be like that but it’s fine by me.

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You were doing WILD both times, or that’s what it sounds like to me. Counting backwards from 100, and every few numbers telling yourself that you are dreaming is a common WILD technique. I tried it myself last night. Couldn’t get to sleep :shy:

The idea of the counting backwards thing is that when you finally fall asleep, you’re mind will still be lingering on you saying “I am dreaming.” Therefore you’re entering the dream consciously, and you’re supposed to be lucid when you go into the dream state.

I haven’t had any luck with WILDing; like oneiromancer I tend to stick with MILDing. Of course, I haven’t had any luck with MILD either :grin:

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You can have orgasms in your sleep? :eek:

Well, there’s news. I suddenly feel all motivated again. :gni:

Question on the counting technique - are you actually saying ‘I am dreaming’ out loud, or in your head? Wouldn’t speaking or a physical action sort of prevent SP? I’m confused. @_@

Anyway… I don’t think it really matters if you’re using the MILD or WILD technique ‘right’… as long as it works, it’s good. :3

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When I do WILD, I say that in my head. Even then I have trouble falling to sleep. :bored:

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do you have multiple orgasms in waking life?

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NO i havent managed yet, it was only that one time in the dream that I had multiples. I think it’s possible though, that hopefully it will happen in waking life. That would be great :partying_face:

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“…it’s possible though, that hopefully it will happen in waking life. That would be great”

Plan your next holidays in Poland then:) Food and shelter on me:)Orgasms too of course:)