Thread: The 90 Days WILD Project

So I decided to make a thread about my WILD Project. What I’m doing is, for the next 90 days; I’m going to learn, practice and perfect the WILD technique. My goal is that by then end of the 90 days, I’ll be able to have at least one WILD every night.

So this thread will be somewhat like a blog of my research, I’m going to attempt WILD at least once every night; so every day I’ll be updating and writing what I did, what happened, what worked and what didn’t work. Hopefully by the end of the 90 days I’ll be able to have WILD’s at will.


Also, anyone that wants to join me on my 90 day quest is more than welcome to do so.




If anyone wants to contact me, either send me a pm or email me at [email protected]

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Day1:

So today my goal is to read about LD and the WILD method, so I can become more familiar with different techniques that people use. I'm going to try to at least get a general idea of what i can do tonight to have a WILD. So, tonight I’m going to do the WBTB method and then attempt a WILD.

I think I may join you in your WILD quest, Edge

Have you seen the FILD technique -> http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=4779 ?

It sounds quite interesting, I'm going to set my alarm for 3 hours after I sleep tonight and have a go at it. I've also heard about Reverse Blinking, which is supposed to help with sleep paralysis?

Good luck with your WBTB tonight, I'll post back here if I'm successful tonight.

Originally Posted by knecht

I think I may join you in your WILD quest, Edge

Have you seen the FILD technique -> http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=4779 ?

It sounds quite interesting, I'm going to set my alarm for 3 hours after I sleep tonight and have a go at it. I've also heard about Reverse Blinking, which is supposed to help with sleep paralysis?

Good luck with your WBTB tonight, I'll post back here if I'm successful tonight.

Awesome.

Yes i have read it before, i'll definitely try it sometime.

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Day 2:

I attempted to WILD today. Unfortunately i was unsuccessful. i woke up at around 3am, i didn't get out of bed or anything, i juts laid there and attempted to be aware while falling asleep (somehow i just fell asleep).
Then i woke up at around 6:15am by some sound i heard outside, i got up to get a drink of water, i went on the forums really quick.
I then went back to bed, i tried to relax my body and keep my mind quiet. After a few minutes i felt my body relax more and more, my arms and legs felt kind of numb, almost like there was something somewhat heavy over me (I don't think this was SP, because if i tried to move i could have.)

I tried to focus on my breathing, to quiet my mind. Now from what i read yesterday, the next step would have been hypnagogic images and sounds. For whatever reason, that never happened, i think i became to awake by getting out of bed. My alarm then went off at 7am and i had to get ready to go to class.


So for tonight what I'm going to do is try to find that sweet spot between awake and tired. I'm also going to try and read up more on WILD, and attempt to figure out what i did wrong on my first attempt.

I was somewhat similar...
My alarm went off at 2:30, I remember turning it off but not properly trying the FILD technique, just falling back to sleep. I'll try again tonight, hopefully with more success

Originally Posted by edge0125

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Then i woke up at around 6:15am by some sound i heard outside, i got up to get a drink of water, i went on the forums really quick.
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I was just reading some of your entries when I spotted this. Do not use electronic devices with bright screens! They wake up your brain way too much, and you do not want this! Stay away from any bright light in fact. Sorry to intrude, just thought I would inform you though.

Originally Posted by edge0125

So I decided to make a thread about my WILD Project. What I’m doing is, for the next 90 days; I’m going to learn, practice and perfect the WILD technique. My goal is that by then end of the 90 days, I’ll be able to have at least one WILD every night.

So this thread will be somewhat like a blog of my research, I’m going to attempt WILD at least once every night; so every day I’ll be updating and writing what I did, what happened, what worked and what didn’t work. Hopefully by the end of the 90 days I’ll be able to have WILD’s at will.


Also, anyone that wants to join me on my 90 day quest is more than welcome to do so.




If anyone wants to contact me, either send me a pm or email me at [email protected]

Hey I think Im going to try this too. I love research and this is sort of the same thing. I have a voice recorder for my book writing (which my main character will have WILDS (- So would you mind if I joined? I hope Im not to late but I will try different methods here and there. I had one intense sleep paralysis that was pretty terrifying that I remember and Ive dreamt about it sence I was 6. Im excited and maybe at the end of the 90 days we all will be new people in sleep.

Good luck and sweet dreams guys. Tomorrow I will record what I went through tonight. Hopfully I will be able to understand my sleepy self hahaha.

Day 24:

No good. I went to sleep some time after 1:30 a.m. and didn't wake up til 7 a.m. It had just snowed the night before so the reflection of the snow made my room really bright. I could tell that getting a successful WILD would be very difficult. I covered my face with a shirt so it wouldn't be so bright. I eventually just drifted off to sleep. I think i'm going to keep working on Yoshi's WILD for maybe 2 or 3 weeks to see how it goes. Maybe my alarm will wake me up next time so i can give it another shot before it is daylight.

Day 26:

Semi successful.

I had a false awakening again! ahhh, this is the third time its happened.

I woke up at around 5am, got up for like 3 min then went back to bed. After about 4 min of laying in bed i began to experience HH. At this point i was excited (i was kind of groggy and out of it though). I remember about 5 secs after the hypnagogic sounds i began to get that weird feeling all over my body (spinning feeling). At this point i thought i was in my dream, so i did a reality check and for whatever reason i thought i was awake due to my RC.
I then woke up realizing that i was dreaming the whole time and that my RC failed me. Unbelievable, i was soo close.

Day 25:

No success, I dont think I'll be able to try hard enough for the next 2 days, but after tuesday I should be back in the game.

Day 25:

Nothing. This time my alarm woke me up, but i was so out of it that i couldn't even remember why i set the alarm. I laid there waiting for it to stop and then zonked out again. Next time, i need to at least get up to go to the bathroom so i will be awake enough to remember to WILD.

I really need to start improving. Only 2 WILD's in 25 days, and those were towards the beginning of the project. Seems like i've gone down hill. If i've went down hill so much then i should get to the valley soon, that way i should start going up hill again.

Had a week off this project due to life being too intense requiring the highest amount of sleep possible every night. Getting calmer now though, so I'm back . Let's call it day 17. I wish myself luck.

Originally Posted by BohmaN

Had a week off this project due to life being too intense requiring the highest amount of sleep possible every night. Getting calmer now though, so I'm back . Let's call it day 17. I wish myself luck.

Welcome back

Day 19 = Woke up 4.5hr into sleep, went back to sleep, woke up 5.5hr into sleep and then went back to sleep, so, no WILDing

Day 68:

Failed again. I got up to use the bathroom, keeping my eyes closed about half of the time. Went back to bed to try WILD, but i laid awake for about an hour, then eventually drifted off to sleep. I hate laying there for so long, only to fail. I need to keep my eyes closed the entire trip to the bathroom. I guess when i'm the only one at home; i could practice getting to the bathroom with my eyes closed, until i can do it no problem. I can already do it for the most part, but if i don't have to think to much to do it, then maybe i'll stay sleepy enough that i won't lay there for over an hour trying to WILD. Have to try again tonight.

Thanks guys!
I think i'll never forget my first lucid and YES i WANT more

Recently no attempt though - i was too tired.
I hope this week i'll get some chances to WILD and hopefully finally succeed

Day 69:

Fail. When i woke up, i had to use the bathroom. My mom and dad were getting ready for work at the time, and my mom beat me to the bathroom. I spent to much time awake waiting for the bathroom, so that i was too awake to WILD. I still attempted though, and the result was a non-lucid false awakening. It seemed so real at the time. The only weird thing about it was a group of glowing cartoon characters, which i had never seen before, hovering over my tv. I thought, "Oh, how nice of them to be my night light." How is that normal!? Why do we have to be so non-observant in our non-lucids? I know why; it's just frustrating. Just have to try again. I'm feeling lucky.

17: No wbtb = fail
18: 3 min wbtb = fail. Next time I will take a walk outside the house for 5 min and get back, hopefully that'll do the trick. The key is to "de-numbify" your limbs as well as get to the sweet spot of alertness.

I dreamt I fell off a cliff, then woke up, I laid completely still, but did not manage to re-enter. I tried to visualize my previous dream but damn I couldn't visualize anything ;p. Tiredness = lack of visualization skills (?)

Huh, that's funny another LD for me.
I was dreaming about myself falling asleep. When i "did" i was lucid then i awoke in dream and tried to go back to sleep. Again i did and i was lucid there
It happend three times or so.

So kinda WILD in dream. I'm not sure is it WILD or DILD but it was fun anyways.

Oh, and there was one thing i was trying to do but it was just impossible
It's summoning the lightning.

Originally Posted by Miomek

Huh, that's funny another LD for me.
I was dreaming about myself falling asleep. When i "did" i was lucid then i awoke in dream and tried to go back to sleep. Again i did and i was lucid there
It happend three times or so.

So kinda WILD in dream. I'm not sure is it WILD or DILD but it was fun anyways.

Oh, and there was one thing i was trying to do but it was just impossible
It's summoning the lightning.

Thats funny, that happened to me once! In the dream I went to sleep in a house and bed I have never seen before (I wasn't lucid), when I fell asleep in the dream, I had a dream inside the dream and was instantly lucid. Then when I woke up from that dream I was back in the bed I had gone to in my first dream, but I was in SP, then SP went away and came back like 3 more times, and during SP I would see a little elf staring at me, it was creepy and funny. But anyways, maybe if you fall asleep in a dream, and have a dream while sleeping in that dream, you become lucid instantly?

Day 20 = No WILDing
Day 21 = No WILDing as well
Darn, too lazy to even do checks the last couple of days

Day 70:

Darn, i forgot to even try. I've been so busy with homework and stuff that i've been dying to play some video games. I think that led to a cool dream last night. I was going around blasting giant mechas with a gun that shot homing plasma balls that explode on contact. It was so awesome, too bad i didn't write it down. I finally got one of my papers out of the way. That relieved a little stress, hopefully it was enough stress that i can focus more on lding. But i still have a ton of crap to do.

Hey folks in the 90 Days WILD Project! Miss me? I've been out for too long, I know, but I haven't left the project? For a really long while there I cut out on my attempts for real life stuff, but I was able to get some in during March and one earlier today.

Results? Well, I'll let you read up on how things have been going.

Day 61: 3.19.10 - Day 71: 3.29.10: No attempts, had some things to deal with that didn't allow for good attempts.
Day 72: 3.30.10: Attempt during afternoon. Listened to some music during, found out I slept through a few songs and didn't even notice, meaning I've been doing that during previous attempts as well without noticing. Continued attempt without music, but mind wasn't relaxed enough to sleep, saw no HI. Will make good attempts the rest of the week.
Day 73: 3.31.10 - Day 74: 4.1.10: No chance to WILD.

Day 75: 4.2.10: At long last, SUCCESS! Length: only a few seconds. Vividity: strong. Lucid awareness: great.

Direct from my DJ!

02.04.2010

66: 4.2.10; 8:55PM Part 2: First WILD. (WILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

I attempted WILDing when I found free-time in the late afternoon. I did LaBerge's adaptation of progressive relaxation, deeply breathed many times to slow myself down and clear my mind, and had my first feeling of a floating sensation during the onset of SP. I was being pulled up from my body, and got a visual cue (an overlayed darkness enveloping everything behind my eyelids) that I was beginning the transition into the hallucination stage. I started having images appear before me, and kept myself alert throughout by watching them come and go, occasionally checking to see if I could still contact my physical "touch" sense (checking if I was awake or dreaming).

The images progressed into small scenes, one of the first ones of which being the most important: when I saw this particular image, I'd slipped - more like, it drew me into it and it developed into a proper dreamscene, into a lucid dream.

I was in the parking lot near the Little Caesar's pizza shop in my town, facing a car with two people near it. Both were men, one was much older, and one was getting into or out of the brown-coloured car. I couldn't tell if the second was just standing behind him while the door was open or if he was trying to drag the other out of the car, but I ran toward the car as my first lucid act, and became fully aware of my dreamstate. This awareness made me disconnect from the dreamscene as I got an initial excitement of knowing I wasn't awake, yet had been awake not moments before.

I was lying awake in my bed with my eyes closed once more, and knew that even though that was my first lucid, I should continue to attempt to have more WILDs before I moved and logged it in my dream journal. It only lasted a few seconds, but that was indeed and unquestionably my first WILD. I continued my attempts, but my mind was too excited (about my first WILD for the 90 Days WILD Project as well as for a new computer I'd be playing with soon) to bring about more lasting imagery.

I apologize for disappearing like that folks; my enthusiasm for this project and for WILDing in general has not faltered, even if I don't post my logs as often as I should. I'll continue my attempts as the DJ log said, to improve on WILDing so I can have one I can be truly proud of. However, for tonight I bask in the glory of knowing I got lucid with the WILD method!

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

Hey folks in the 90 Days WILD Project! Miss me? I've been out for too long, I know, but I haven't left the project? For a really long while there I cut out on my attempts for real life stuff, but I was able to get some in during March and one earlier today.
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I apologize for disappearing like that folks; my enthusiasm for this project and for WILDing in general has not faltered, even if I don't post my logs as often as I should. I'll continue my attempts as the DJ log said, to improve on WILDing so I can have one I can be truly proud of. However, for tonight I bask in the glory of knowing I got lucid with the WILD method!

Congrats on the WILD. No need to apologize, I've been really slacking off but that's due to being really tired from having early morning shifts

Day 22 = Woke up on clock, put it off and went back to bed

Has anyone here had any success trying to WILD 4.5hr into their sleep?

Thanks much! I could've sworn I saw a post from you earlier on this very page that said you WILDed yet your sig says otherwise....?

And for your question, I tried it twice, and for me it was awful. I was so groggy that even after getting out of bed and using the restroom, plus making extra use of motor functions in my arms and legs, I still was just too groggy to keep with it.