Thread: Yoshi's WILD Technique...

Imagine trees shooting up out of the ground.

Originally Posted by weakamon

Ey I got a question, How can I change my dream setting? Let's say I entered a dream. And I was on a desert a desert, how can I change that desert into a jungle?

Spinning in the dream, looking into a mirror and picturing where you want to go, imagining that its just over a hill and then flying there, opening your door picturing it etc.

Originally Posted by weakamon

Ey I got a question, How can I change my dream setting? Let's say I entered a dream. And I was on a desert a desert, how can I change that desert into a jungle?

Shadow and Turtle have given some good examples as well. What I would do, is just look for the jungle. Start flying/running around your desert island (or wherever you are) and picture the jungle in your mind. You will soon find it. In my experience, it is always easier to find something as opposed to just making it appear out of thin air.

This is a really great tutorial yoshi. We haven't talked much in the forum but I used this last night and it worked on the first try.

Thanks

Originally Posted by dakotahnok

This is a really great tutorial yoshi. We haven't talked much in the forum but I used this last night and it worked on the first try.

Thanks

No problem, man. Glad it worked out well for you !

thanks, i'll try to "search" for it while wandering around

Originally Posted by weakamon

thanks, i'll try to "search" for it while wandering around

Sometimes it helps to say whatever you are looking for out loud. Shout out loud, "Jungle," every once in a while as you are searching for it. Be sure to look out into the horizon and see if there is a jungle off into the distance as well.

So I tried to WILD today during a nap, and I'm not sure of my progress, perhaps you could enlighten me, yoshi?
I was lying on my front for about 5 minutes, and then rolled to my side. After about 2 minutes of being on my side, my body started to tingle and feel kind of warm; you know that feeling when you stand up too fast after sitting down for awhile (all the blood rushing to your feet), it felt kinda like that. I was just staring into the swirling darkness when out of the 'swirls' I swear I saw some clouds float by, and then in the center of my vision I saw an eye, and that floated away too. I'm not sure if in SP or not, after I thought I saw these things I got all excited and lost the WILD.
Sound like the start of a WILD, or my brain playing tricks on me because I was expecting these things to happen (placebo effect i guess). I'm not sure because the clouds and eye were really random, I was expecting sounds or images of trees or something so I doubt my mind conjured them. Input?

Nice, this was most definitely HI brought on by the onset of SP. I don't think SP had fully set in yet, but these were definitely hallucinations. I have saw some pretty unexpected visuals as well. This is good, you have made some nice progress. Now you know to expect the unexpected, and try to stay calm and relaxed the next time this happens. HI/HH will generally be very random and you won't have much control over it, if any. Nice job and just keep trying to get a little further along in the process with each attempt. Good luck!

Originally Posted by KingYoshi

Nice, this was most definitely HI brought on by the onset of SP. I don't think SP had fully set in yet, but these were definitely hallucinations. I have saw some pretty unexpected visuals as well. This is good, you have made some nice progress. Now you know to expect the unexpected, and try to stay calm and relaxed the next time this happens. HI/HH will generally be very random and you won't have much control over it, if any. Nice job and just keep trying to get a little further along in the process with each attempt. Good luck!

Thanks for the encouragement, I'm going to WBTB tomorrow morning (if I can get my lazy ass out of bed , I'll let you know how it goes.

Nice, good luck to you! Remember, stay confident!

woah dude. a whole tutorial. i'm going to do this one. i'll post the result.

Sweet! Good luck!

really great, i'm trying this now, and i can tell i'm closer to have a LD =D thanks a lot!

Hi, I've tried this a couple of times but have only gotten to the tingly feeling in my arms and feet. I think this is because I've only tried to do it before I went to bed and after. I'm kinda turned off from trying this because of the hallucinations you say you can see in SP. Can you describe some of the scariest/strangest things you have seen while using this process? I have only had a couple of lucid dreams as well.

Well, in my experience, 90% of the time there won't really be any scary hallucinations. Keep in mind that even the scariest hallucinations aren't as scary as you would think. Even if something frightening happens, in the back of your mind, you know it is just a hallucination and it will soon pass. This makes everything less frightening than it normally would be. If you ever get any unpleasant HI/HH, you should simply ignore it and it will soon pass. If need be, remind yourself, "This is just a hallucination...I can't be harmed...if I just ignore it, it will pass." After some experience with the hallucinations, you will get used to it.

I suppose the most frightening HH I have ever had, was when I felt a "presence" get into bed with me. It then slowly worked its way up my body and I heard it breathing in my ear. I've heard the typical screams or weird "evil" talk, but the auditory hallucinations really aren't very scary if you just ignore them. Even with the presence breathing in my ear, I managed to stay relatively calm and ignore it. It soon faded and I made it into my WILD. If you can just power through one of the frightening ones, none of them will ever really seem scary again.

I'm happy to announce that I can wake at will. Even without the aid of water, alarm clock, phone, etc. I can wake at middle of the night. My technique is to believe that I have drunk a lot of water. But in reality, I didn't.

That is reassuring. I don't know if I entered sleep paralysis but I set my alarm to wake me up at 5:30, 6 hours after I went to bed. I got up and went to the bathroom. I had trouble going back to sleep since I took a nap a couple hours earlier so I kinda just lay in bed for a good 30 minutes. All of a sudden I heard a song playing really clearly in my head and I felt somebody was behind me even though I couldn't see who it was. I heard the person walking around the side of my bed but I woke myself up before I saw them.

Originally Posted by weakamon

I'm happy to announce that I can wake at will. Even without the aid of water, alarm clock, phone, etc. I can wake at middle of the night. My technique is to believe that I have drunk a lot of water. But in reality, I didn't.

Awesome! You have trained yourself to wake up on your own. Congrats!

Originally Posted by Wry

That is reassuring. I don't know if I entered sleep paralysis but I set my alarm to wake me up at 5:30, 6 hours after I went to bed. I got up and went to the bathroom. I had trouble going back to sleep since I took a nap a couple hours earlier so I kinda just lay in bed for a good 30 minutes. All of a sudden I heard a song playing really clearly in my head and I felt somebody was behind me even though I couldn't see who it was. I heard the person walking around the side of my bed but I woke myself up before I saw them.

Yeah, it definitely sounds like you were having some hallucinations brought on by SP. You won't always feel the vibrations and some of the other common hallucinations. I would work on trying to stay in this state a little longer each time. Try to build up your confidence and ease your way into it. This was good progress, just keep working on it and I'm sure you will be able to overcome your fear. Good luck!

Ey yoshi, I had a lucid dream last night through WILD. I spawned inside my room. I tried to get outside my apartment but when i grabbed the door knob, The buzzing sound(the one we experience when we Sp) started again even if I'm in already in a LD! the sound kept on and I sat on the sidewalk trying to calm my self. A few seconds passed and I spawned again in my bedroom. I RC and I was still in a LD. Again I tried to went outside but the sound repeated again. Irritated, I woke up. Any explanation for this?

Well first off, congrats on a successful WILD! This buzzing was likely a minor stability issue. If you were fairly calm and the dream environment seemed stable, you may have just needed to ignore this buzzing. Something like this will often go away just by engaging in some dream activity. You likely just needed to immerse yourself within the dream (engaged in some dream activity/exploring/etc) and the buzzing would have went away. I see you experienced a false awakening and nice job catching it! A lot of times dreamers won't notice the false awakening and will think they are actually awake. That was pretty impressive!

Last night, I again used my alarm to wake myself up 6 hours after going to sleep. Again I had trouble going back to sleep, think this is because my body is programmed to get up and get ready for school when I hear my alarm, so I read a book for a little bit before I felt I was tired enough to actually fall back asleep. I found myself in a dream where I was in school, I realized I was dreaming and repeated to myself several times, "I'm dreaming." This caused the dream to fade and I think I was awake with my eyes closed. I suddenly felt a strong vibration followed by an equally strong second vibration throughout my body. Thinking I was somehow back in the dream, I opened my eyes to find myself in my bedroom awake. Should I have waited longer on the vibrations or what?

First off, congrats on achieving lucidity. Once you realized you are dreaming, it is always a good idea to immediately stabilize. You almost performed a DEILD without even knowing it . Once the dream starts to fade, you just lay still with your eyes closed. You will wake up and then immediately start transitioning back into the dream state. Sometimes it will be very quick and there will be little to no HH/HI. Other times, you experience HH/HI similar to a normal WILD transition. You probably should have waited out the vibrations a bit longer and you would have successfully DEILDed. Hmm...did you perform a RC once you realized you were in your bedroom? You may have transitioned into the dream state and not even realized it. Either way, you gained some valuable experience and will know what to expect the next time out. Good luck to you and if you have any further questions, just ask !

No, I didn't perform an RC but I looked at the time on my alarm clock. I think I heard numbers and letters usually look strange in dreams and it looked normal to me. Also, to stabilize you can just use verbal commands and/or look at your hands right?