I had lucidity tonight! Excellent!

I was trying the VILD technique, and placed myself in a forest landscape. It wasn't very 'well-made'; I found it quite difficult to hold everything together. I tried to start walking in the environment because I was worried that I would lose the visualisation if I just left it steady. I had an odd thought (not sure where this came from...) that there might be a monster I'd created called the 'Melster' in the forest, so I headed for the edge of the trees.

This was the odd bit. I was expecting the environment to steadily get more realistic as I fell nearer sleep. What actually happened was there was this sudden 'shift', which turned everything far more clear, and there wasn't a problem with keeping everything steady in my head. I realised that this must be what a proper dream looks like rather than just imagination. There was a big grassy hill down from the forest; I jumped off the top and tried to fly. (It was more sort of gentle gliding rather than proper flight).

I must have lost lucidity later on in the dream; I can't remember that much of it apart from the beginning. I'm still happy the technique worked


I did this after waking up naturally very soon after I went to sleep (I'm sure it was only an hour or two after I fell asleep for the first time). I did try the technique the first time I went to sleep, creating a sort of icy tower, but I didn't experience the 'shift' I did the second time.

TL;DR
WILDed successfully