I have a question for people that have experience with WILD.
I’ve read numerous forums and the general consensus is that attempting WILD when you got to bed at night is very ineffective. I’ve read it is possible but it yields very low and inconsistent results.
I’ve had a couple LD’s but they were always DILD and whenever I attempented WILD I’ve only gotten some serious HI’s but I’ve never experienced SP or a moment where I was able to shift towards stepping into a dream.
What I was wondering was the following: Is it possible to just train WILD when you go to bed at night. I’m referring to identifying the various hallucinations and getting into SP. Not staying in the actual LD. I was thinking this could help you gain more control over your proper attempts after WBTB for example seeing as you know what to do.
I hope someone can shed some light on this for me.
I am an “evangelist” of something I call Lucid Dream Simulation (Or LD Training while awake, but the former sounds cooler).
It’s about training while awake about what you should do while dreaming or drifting to dream (ex: WILD). I really recommend it because:
1- It’s easy to forget what you have planned to do in a LD (if you get a DILD)
2- It’s hard to concentrate when you WILD
3- It’s too easy to lose control when you are almost getting inside the dream (late WILD phases)
4- It’s too easy to get nervous/excited and wake up/destabilize when you get into a LD (any technique)
My recommendations, they are about writing down what you should do in case you get a LD, in case you see HIs and such. Then you memorize these activities and train them while awake.
Out of all the LDs I’ve had (lost exact count, the number is somewhere around 100) only about four or five of them have been WILDs (and that’s disregarding the DEILDs which are sort of a form of WILD). Out of those WILDs, about three of them were accidental…
Still, each night I try anyways to WILD. Just for fun. Maybe tonight will be the night it works? Who knows?
But that’s not all I do. I’m still keeping a DJ (a must… let’s face it) and I’m also working on ADA and using WBTB to improve my late morning LD chances so it’s not like I’m depending solely on WILDs.
That being said I’d recommend doing what feels best. What I’ve preferred to do has changed since I first started trying to LD, but it’s always felt right. Find something you like and work on it. You might surprise yourself.
Maybe tonight will be the night it works? Who knows?