I've been a member here for a while, but I stopped coming here a long time ago, don't know why, but I gave up on lucid dreams. Needless to say I've gotten more involved in it more than ever now. I'm actually surprised that I remembered my username and password, yet I glimpsed at what I had posted a long time ago and couldn't remember any of it, except for the dreams I mentioned.

Anyways, a technique I never tried was WILD, I was fascinated, and positive, that the way for me to go was with DILD. But that just never worked for me. Even now, I have a dream journal and I am positive of many different dream signs which keep appearing, like blondes (don't ask) and the color red (red lingerie, red cars, a red Bible, red clothes, just the color red keeps popping up) and for some reason, my work (Wal-Mart). Even in my dreams, when I'm in Wal-Mart, I'll actually stop myself and look around, and ask if I'm dreaming, but nothing happens.

Last night, and for the past couple of nights, I've been having weird experiences with where I'm awake and then I try to visualize my last dream, or just anything in particular. My body will be at complete relaxation, but my conscious mind is wide awake (even when I took a bunch of sleeping pills), but eventually I find myself asleep and in a dream. From what I've been reading, that's my problem, the fact that I fall asleep (probably from boredom haha) and then I dream.

I've read a lot of people saying that WILD and astral projection are basically the same, I'm not arguing the point, nor do I wish to start one here, but with astral projection, I understand the concept of your spirit coming out of your physical body to explore. So, my question, and sorry for the build-up, is when I'm relaxed physically, am I supposed to "roll out of my physical body" and be in a dream world?

Now that I'm back into a strong desire for lucid dreams, I've decided this time around to be more of a lurker/researcher/student as opposed to one who actively takes part of the forum. Last time, I'm not sure, but I think I just did a lot of randomness.

Other things that seem to be a problem for me is this, my dreams (where it is me that is in them) are never really fascinating, like no weird things are going on, like floating animals or anything like that. It's usually just basic, normal people, normal situations, etc. That is why I decided this time around to really go for the WILD technique.