Wake Back to Bed? What am I doing wrong?!

**Logan's Girl** · 06-10-2009 03:37 AM

Okay welll...i set my alarm to wake up 5 hours after I went to sleep and I also drank some water.I woke up exactly when my alarm went on and went to the washroom. After a few minutes, specifically 20-30 I went back to bed but I was simply too excited to WILD. I'm usually good at that but my eyes just kept twitching i guess and i just tried to stay calm and closed my eyes while in bed for a few more minutes. I got myself to stay calm then had no success in WILDING so I turned to the side and went to sleep. Next thing I was really aware in one of my dreams and could make anybody appear but I wasn't sure I was in a LD or not ...After, I woke up and thought i had written my dreams down but woke up again to find out I hadn't and went back to sleep...then when I woke up again, i remembered my previous dreams and the dream before that dream. Why am i failing a WBTB?! Heeeellllpppp

I read those tutorials about WBTB but....not sure what i'm doing wrong. Plus there was this one guide that said for me to imagine i was walking in a dreamscape? care to explain that?

**Ozzi99** · 06-10-2009 10:43 AM

The way i understood it was that WBTB is just getting up, staying up for a bit then going back to bed. It is just somewhat of a "buffer" (bad choice of words) for the other techniques. WBTB is used in conjunction with DILD, WILD, etc, but it is not a lucid dreaming technique in itself although it helps quite a bit. I could be wrong though....

About the dream scape, there's a method where you create a sequence of events in your head then visualize them, then incorporate a reality check and after a few sequences you should be dreaming.

"For example, Pedro imagines himself in a room which is completely empty except for a door.. He manifests two of his best friends in his mind, and visualizes them being very excited.

They will say "Did you know this a reality check competition? Do a reality check now!", and of course Pedro will visualize himself reality checking, and realizing he is dreaming.

You then imagine yourself walking out the only door and repeat your visualization. " From tutorial.

Sorry if that dosent make sense/ repeats what you already know

Ps. Not suprised about the WILD, i always feel so dam groggy when i get up i just fall straight back asleep

**Shift** · 06-10-2009 02:49 PM

Do you mean WILDing from a WBTB, or just doing a WBTB and then going to sleep to try to DILD? A WBTB is just waking up. The problems you're having would be in the specific techniques themselves.

Originally Posted by Ozzi99

The way i understood it was that WBTB is just getting up, staying up for a bit then going back to bed. It is just somewhat of a "buffer" (bad choice of words) for the other techniques. WBTB is used in conjunction with DILD, WILD, etc, but it is not a lucid dreaming technique in itself although it helps quite a bit.

^ 100% correct.