OK, so last night I woke up in the middle of the night and had to use the restroom. So I figured I might as well try to WILD since I had woken up. So I lay back down and begin to relax and drift off, I soon forget what I am trying to do and luckily wake back up shortly after nodding off. Then I remember reading about "the finger technique", where you tap your index and middle fingers softly, one after the other. So I begin tapping my fingers and the next moment my eyes are open and Im still in my bed except for the fact that I hear a radio softly playing in the background. Well immediately I recognize that there is no radio in my room so I plug my nose and do a reality check. While holding my nose I can still breath so I deduce that I was dreaming! This is where it gets lame though. As soon as I reality check and realize it's a dream, I get super excited and can actually feel my heart beating very hard for a second and the dream immediately starts to fade away. At this point, I'm not even out of my bed yet in the dream, Im still laying down. I try to stabilize the dream but it doesn't work and I wake up. I was definitely lucid for a moment and the WILD/FILD technique worked even though it was really short lasted.

After waking up I tried again but was too tired and drifted off before I could prepare myself. This does give me hope though, it tells me that I am getting better at it and getting better at recognizing good times to try different techniques Just thought I'd share