Thread: How to WILD

yeah i like dream chasers question, the first tutorial i read about wilding was about 8 steps long and involved all sorts of visualizing and then this technique says to just fall asleep and have something to anchor u, as dream chaser said surely half the people if not more that go to sleep should be wilding??

Ok no problem, but why aren't half the population WILDing since they are all anchoring with daily thoughts?

Because they don't actively gauge their consciousness using it; and anchors are basically your constant reality check. Thoughts are usually anything but consistent. Your thoughts can be incredibly absurd but still be considered 100% natural/normal. However; if you have a fan running its not going to start randomly playing The Beatles in "Reality". If it does you know somethings up. Like I said; the same does not apply to something as inconsistent as our thoughts.

You need to train yourself to naturally remain aware in between the stage of wakefulness/sleep; yet still progressively advance. This is seemingly a very contradictory statement because naturally we do the opposite. Most people are sitting there wide awake because they are just waiting for SP/HI to come or their mind is racing a mile a minute; they simply cannot fall asleep. Their brain is working as hard as yours or mine is right now; and its not like we're about to pass out on the keyboard. Only difference is that their eyes are closed.. big whoop. Being able to remain aware/conscious of your anchor and actually knowing what to do with it is something that will come naturally. Just dont get really involved with it; its another one of those hard things to explain... I dont ask myself if the fan is on; I just know.

Naturally when you lose "consciousness" you get enveloped in some random string of thoughts or memories. I dont know what happens from here because well; Im not there to see it. This is typically when you slip off to sleep. (Dreaming or not; both are possible and lucidity can come before or after the transition (WILD or DILD). There's no difference between WILDers and 'regular' people other then they stay lucid longer early on. Most dreams when you first go to bed at night are short/random or even non-existent. Combined with a WBTB your of course more likely to slip into a dream. Once we're lucid we're playing the same game.

When I was first learning essentially what happen is.. (Pretend my anchor is white noise/fan in background).

*Fan is running*
-Laying in bed regularly; relaxing.
-Not doing anything special; I usually end up thinking about the day and such.
-Falling asleep normally and I will suddenly become aware that I cannot hear the fan anymore. As soon as I think that it "turns back on" instantly.
-When this happens I basically get a flood of information. (External stimuli like noises/feelings, and everything I was last thinking about. (I like to call these 'blinks of consciousness')
*Rinse and repeat*

What would happen is I would NEVER notice it "turning off". So basically I would get distracted from the external stimuli with some random thought that I was so indulged in. I would be completely oblivious to what was going on around me. Once that thought or chain of thoughts is over I might randomly remember that I was laying in bed trying to WILD. Suddenly the awareness of my body and surroundings rush back full force.

Now heres where the difference comes; most people would not experience that "blink" on a regular basis; and they would simply fall into "unconscious" sleep. Of course it works backwards and they may lay in bed wide awake to concentrated on it and never progress towards sleep. The only way to get that blink is to essentially test your anchor subconsciously.. or to randomly remember what you were doing before it is to late. I have found this gateway is very short; couldn't be more then ~2-5 minutes. If I overlook it I miss it, and the next time I awake will be my next brief awakening.

Eventually I began jolting awake less and less; and gaining awareness of my body became a transition instead of an instant effect. I really cannot put into words how it feels; its just weird. It feels like your in a void (Not necessarily SP or anything; Im just not aware of anything at all outside my thoughts). After a while I began to last longer and longer before I lose consciousness; thus shortening the time in between the blinks. At this point when I get these spikes of consciousness I do not "lose" more then a few seconds; which is great because I can fall asleep naturally (very quickly), regain awareness and be right ready to dip into a WILD. More often then not there will be a seamless transition between awake/dreaming. The dream materializes out of nowhere and I commonly induce "motion" as I fall into a dream. Sometimes I just end up in it but usually there's some form of motion or falling involved. It is a very fine line though in between these phases; honestly nothing but practice can help you find the sweet spot.

Eventually I learned to just simply recognize this feeling and quite frankly my mind/body is my anchor. The only reason I use outside physical anchors like white noise/discomfort (Even though discomfort technically is my body) is because they work as a fail safe in case I am "not all there" that night.

Anyways without getting deep into it (I will be eventually) the anchor is your grip on reality; and it makes it so you can judge your consciousness based on the current situation. For billy the pain increases; for "Imaginers" the environment becomes more vivid/realistic. For white noise maybe the sound dissipates. The thing is the transition is no where near 'Black and White' and you can use that to your advantage. The problem is that it appears as if it was for new people; and is sometimes even non-existent. The sensation itself is going to vary and is why people have trouble; they go into WILDs expecting something to happen (Usually the wrong thing) and they get stuck. They either over think it and are wide awake or dont know what to do with an anchor; completely miss it and wake up with a soar shoulder the next day from laying on their arm. There is no universal anchor; you have to experiment to find an effective one for you.

This is where nothing but experience will help you; sometimes you can luck out and fall into lucidity randomly however to truly understand something you need to go back to the basics and work from the ground up.