I'm new to this forum, but thanks to google, here I am. How I got here is perhaps a bit strange. I've been working to correct my vision by learning to relax my eyes and get rid of what I guess is commonly called stress points. One of the problems I had was waking up after sleep with lousy vision. So I've been trying to let my mind relax and just concentrate my focus on the darkness. My WILD came one night as I lay there focusing on relaxing my eyes. I had never heard of lucid dreaming or WILDs, but after googling I found this site and have been reading the tutorials and the posts for the past two weeks, thus now I realize this is what I experienced. As I lay there relaxing, I suddenly saw an object (not sure what it was) it became vivid scenery and all of the sudden I could feel hard pavement beneath my feet. I realized that I was conscious while dreaming and was able to go where I wanted to. I've experienced flying many times while normal dreaming and so I tried that, too. After I woke, I went back and experienced a second WILD that night. I've had several other WILDs since, but only one as vivid as that first one. Most nights I am unable to remain alert long enough and I think I try to hard. This is a great site, by the way. I'm glad I found it. Got to love search engines!