Thread: Me saying hi, and a question about WILDs

Well hi everyone! I have read about lucid dreaming before and thought that it was something only a few people could do, and they didn't actually teach themselves to do it, it happened just randomly. After finding this site I am a lot more confident that I could have a LD myself. Ive read through a couple guides and will try the different techniques to see how I do.

After reading over some guides I have a question about WILDs. In one guide it said that you lay there and try to focus on something other than having an LD (ie- your breathing). Then I've also read that people will lay in bed and imagine a scene, and after a little while they will actually be there. I'm not sure if im understanding it all yet, and I know there are different things that work for different people... but when you first started doing WILDs did any of you find that thinking about LDing will mess things up?

Thanks in advanced, and I hope to someday have my own LD!


Edit- I forgot another question I had. I have tried searching on it but couldn't really find something answering my question. It's about SP while trying to WILD. I am pretty sure I have started to enter SP before, like my legs were tingly + I couldn't move them and it started to crawl up them until I shook my legs with my hand to get them to come back. If I just let the feeling crawl up my body is that SP? From what I have read you wake up from a normal dream, enter SP, and then try to WILD? I have heard some weird things about sleep paralysis and am not sure If I want to try and make myself go into it.