Ok, I got like zero responses the last few times I tried making posts, so I tried just reading and going at this on my own. I personally use dreams as a way to relieve stress... hopefully being able to become lucid will allow me a little more freedom in some dreams or start regular dreaming more, which would be nice.


So, the other night I was going to try to WILD, but read that you cannot WILD unless you're in the REM stage or near it or something. Well, I went to bed, laid down on my back and started the whole relaxing process. I got to the point where it felt like my hands and feet were not there, and like my wrists and ankles were being tied to the bed. It got all the way up to where it felt like my entire arms and legs were not there before I realized that my eyes were mostly closed. I waited like this, thrusting out any surface thoughts that popped up (mostly a few words in the lyrics to a song, and I started counting breaths when it popped up) and this worked for the most part. I didn't recall anything until a call came in... about two hours later. I didn't feel like I fell asleep, but the call startled me and I was up. Either way, I didn't move and let the call go to voicemail. I laid back down and started again. I think I fell asleep this time, but I had a dream about the exact thing I was telling myself I was going to dream about. The dream wasn't lucid because I was mostly just following it like watching a movie screen, but here's the question. I woke up at some point in the night. I didn't get up, but I thought about the dream and wanted to continue it... as soon as I fell asleep I started having the exact same dream I was just having, but it continued and didn't just repeat. I did this around three times I think, maybe four or five.

My question is, I had the ability to go back to sleep and dream exactly what I was wanting to dream, exactly how I was wanting to dream it. Did the call wake me up during REM or near it (because it was like a couple hours in I think) and then I was waking up, going to sleep, and dreaming what I wanted to.



It would be really helpful to know if I did anything that could help me in the future, or if this was just random and I was dreaming exactly what I wanted by coincidence...