Thread: Question about WILDs

So just a little background. I starting my attempts at lucid dreaming 3-4 years ago. I'm very familiar with various techniques. I figured I would let you know this since I made a brand new account.

Last week I had my first successful WILD. I have been experimenting with WILDs for a while and found something that works for me. Basically, I consciously create a day dream world in my mind, and push myself to the boundary of unconsciousness until my subconscious starts projecting things into my day dream. Eventually I start feeling strange pulses, hear ringing noises, and end up in a state which I'm pretty sure is sleep paralysis. After that I'm dreaming.

I've gotten close to succeeding two more times this week, but both times, the same thing happened and I was kicked awake. What happened was that my subconscious was at the point of taking over and I started feeling those weird pulses. I floated off of my bed, and it felt like sleep paralysis was on its way. However, both times this happened, something felt different from when I successfully WILDed. After that, I got kicked awake instead of going any further. The first time this happened I let my conscious mind take over too much and I woke up. The second time, I kept it suppressed and lasted a lot longer. I think that I maintained the same amount of unconsciousness that I had when I succeeded a week ago, but I still woke up.

I'm just wondering if anyone knows what I'm experiencing. Am I letting myself regain too much consciousness or is there something else that's happening?

Can you tell me more about what happened after you were ''kicked awake''? It could be false awakenings.

Oh man... I can't believe I forgot about those. I use to have them all the time. That could be what happened, since I did just roll over and fall asleep afterwards. However, I know that during my successful attempt, the time of day had changed, and everything felt different. After my two failures, my world felt distinctly real and familiar. I know that they could still be false awakenings, but I felt very much awake and nothing struck me as out of place.

As far as what happened when I was kicked awake, I floated back down to my bed, all of the sensations stopped and I regained control of my body.

And wow, while I was thinking about this, something just triggered another memory of what happened during my second failed attempt. I feel dumb for not remembering this already because I'm pretty sure this happened during some form of sleep paralysis. I remember accidentally thinking about a demonic creature which caused it to appear next to my bed. I remember unsummoning and resummoning it multiple times while trying to keep it from strangling me. I could hardly move. In that experience my room looked perfectly normal which indicates that I very easily could have been having false awakenings afterwards. I'm still shocked that this memory slipped away from me.

So ya, it could be false awakenings, but the sensations stopped in such a real way. If you are familiar with the feeling of letting your body start to fall asleep and then waking it up again, that's what I'm talking about. It's that sense of regained control and a rested feeling. When I passed into a dream before, the change was not gradual. It was an instantaneous snap to a different state of consciousness.

Welcome to DV, Devilkitty and it's always great to hear about novices who succeed at WILDing, too.
I have to say this is an interesting post, daydreaming your way to a WILD is intriguing, and something I didn't think I'd be able to do until my visualisation skills and imagination shot up massively recently. Have to say I'm bored of counting to 100 over and over, may have to try your way tonight. Which sleeping position do you lie in for your WILDs?

I have to say I agree with Graves, getting 'kicked awake' sounds like you may in fact have been dreaming.

Well I always sleep on my right side with one arm under my pillow to prop my head up. My reason for this is a little complex, but I’ll try to explain this. I haven’t been on dream views for maybe a year, so I have no idea if other people do this. Maybe I’m just restating the obvious. If not, hopefully this is an adequate explanation.

When I create a daydream world, I try to make it as dream-like as possible. I walk around and try to touch things. If I lay on my left side, I can’t stand up straight in my daydream. It sounds silly, but since I’m still conscious, my position does affect my orientation in the daydream. I usually fall over and it’s impossible to do anything. I literally can’t daydream on my left side.

Once I get myself walking around, I just start doing things until the world gets more and more real. At the farthest point, right before my subconscious takes over, I can actually feel my daydream body at the same time as my real body. The feeling of having four arms in two different dimensions is pretty weird and fun. After that sleep paralysis kicks in.

Wow, seems like a really creative and unique way of doing it . Sounds like you've mastered V-WILD (basically visualisation WILD)

I sleep in the same position, though not for the same reasons

Cool, I'll have to check out V-WILD. I haven't been doing lucid dreaming stuff for a while. Now I've gotta catch up on everything I've missed on Dreamviews. I used to try WILDs all the time and never succeeded. I eventually stopped trying and just started day dreaming and seeing how dream-like I could make it. I've spent the past couple years just daydreaming a few times a week, and now I can WILD off of it. I'm really excited to get back to lucid dreaming now that I can finally WILD. I've never been a fan of non-WILD lucid dream techniques.

Anyways, thanks for the quick replies. It's nice to be back on Dreamviews.

I would do that but im afraid that I'll fall asleep