Thread: Unable to transition into a dream fully when performing WILD

Hi IndigoRose.

Originally Posted by IndigoRose

If you have a scene and if you feel your senses fully in it (no connection to the real world, no sensory inputs from your real body), you are fully dreaming and fully in REM.
The fact that the scene is blurry and dark doesn't have to mean that it is unstable. Dreams can play these mind games with us, even more, if we expect some instability in the newly formed dreams and if, in our minds, instability and poor visuals are connected.

You bring up a good point. I have not really been paying attention to expectations, so it may indeed be that I'm setting myself up for failure without even knowing it. It's something that I'll definitely have to watch out for next time, so thank you for making me realize.

Originally Posted by IndigoRose

You haven't mentioned what you do for stabilization.

I mainly go and touch things in order to ground myself in the dream. I also sometimes try to be as calm as possible.
It may not be much, but it's what usually works for me.

Originally Posted by IndigoRose

Have you tried all the usual things? Have you tried to just continue, going out of your room, doing something, simply assuming that the dream is stable and that the visuals will get better soon?

This is indeed what I used to do in my old previous attempts. The dream would get better as I continued the session, despite some initial forced exits. In my recent attempts however, I barely have any time to do anything before the scene just vanishes, comes back and vanishes again just as quickly as before. This goes on multiple times before I give up entirely.

Originally Posted by IndigoRose

When you exit the scene, do you go back to bed (real sensory inputs, feeling your real body) or to the black void or something else?

I feel my body resting on the bed, but unfortunately I've not been able to confirm whether I've truly woken up momentarily or if I'm still dreaming.