Thread: WILD - Wake Initiated Lucid Dream

I'm so glad I read this. I had tried visualising numbers in my head as I had thought this would be a good opportunity to practice visualisation.
Unfortunately I watched a video that told me I must clear my mind of all thoughts in order to LD, so I promptly stopped doing this.
This is fantastic if I can use the counting technique visualising the numbers with different shapes/backgrounds/colours etc (keeps me entertained) as I have done this counting in meditation practises before.

If I practise WILD as an early evening nap time and fall a sleep enough times or hopefully WILD then will my body clock not set itself so that I REM sleep
at that time each day?

Thanks again DV i'm finding this community a total goldmine of information.

Originally Posted by MeohMyoh

If I practise WILD as an early evening nap time and fall a sleep enough times or hopefully WILD then will my body clock not set itself so that I REM sleep
at that time each day?

I am not 100% sure on this but it seems to be that LDing works best when you do not NEED the sleep. I find naps in the first 5 hours of being awake are great for hitting REM, but the later/tireder I try the less it works. A nap a couple hour before bedtime, is basically the same as trying at bedtime.