i almost lost hope but practice makes perfect!

[OmnipotentTitan]

wbtb wild yes I did it twice in the last two days! I am not one for logs as that can get excessive so I forget what it was exactly the other morning but it was definitely a fully lucid dream. The one I just had this morning was after over 2 hours of being awake. I wake very early when it is still dark and it was still so when I wbtb. So I lay their thinking that trying to use those images of inverted colors and such would help start a dream as so many swear by it. I had lost the actual memory of the exact image but concentrated on making a bright color in front of me. Something about looking up and down that is difficult so I just focused straight ahead of me. I couldn't conjure up any images but its the effort that counts . I find it rather difficult to fall asleep on my back and as some claim for lucid dreams this is a good thing. Since I had full rest and a timed sleep and wake schedule for weeks now because I find this to be the healthiest ( waking after 7 hours of sleep without an alarm clock and feeling fully refreshed is rather amazing when I am able to sleep for 9+ hours at a time) I didn't feel the need to turn on my side and try to sleep. After the obligatory scratch of an itch I lost sense of my surroundings and soon after found myself in the backyard of a house I have not lived in for several years. DING DING DING! I am dreaming. Lucid lights on now I focus on faces and surroundings and they are clear as day. Since I wasn't sleeping very deeply at all I experienced what I rarely if ever experience what I call the "dream vision" with a very small circle of view with blurry vision around it. If you think about it thats how we usually see anyways and what we arent directly looking at is mostly an illusion, but i digress. I went on to be inside the house (teleport?) and look around at random things. I am still fully aware and getting too excited so move (teleport?) to where I am sleeping and look out the window and at the driveway (you can't really look down at the driveway from this particular window). Then I said it is enough as I do not want to slip into non-lucid or dreamless sleep and I feel that I will be able to do Lucid dreaming whenever I want from now on. I checked the clock and it wasn't a full 25 minutes since i lay down. The dream felt like at least an hour. Thanks to everyone that gives tips and ideas on how to properly WILD. key notes: -have a set schedule and wake up many hours before dawn -was fully rested -did eat breakfast and air out the bedroom before wbtb -focused on visualizing imagery, failed, and succeeded in a LD because of the effort -did very basic LD control and was fully aware -was very excited and cut it short because I hate slipping back into non-lucid sleep -did not listen to any specific music the night before or before wbtb -did not think or plan about LD night before -did think I am going to lucid dream right before wbtb -from wbtb to end of lucid dream was only 22 minutes