Tips for WILD
Disclaimer: All people are different and things that work for me might not work for others - so more opinions from people that can WILD consistently are encouraged and will be incorporated in the text
Just wrote a guide to dream control for once you get in the LD. Enjoy...
So I've been reading topics the past few days and it seems that a lot of people are attempting WILD. A lot of new people are trying too with varying degrees of success and some horror stories for the unlucky. So I thought I should give some advice and other people, feel free to add your advice too. Let's help each other...
What is WILD
You are basically trying to trick your brain into believing you are sleeping while you are still holding your consciousness awake. After the brain decides you are in fact asleep it will start dreaming and so you will enter the dream directly keeping your consciousness.
How to do it
The basic step of WILD is that you have to get to sleep while keeping your consciousness. People use different incantations or mantras that they repeat to themselves ("Sleeping body - awaken mind" or something like that), I've heard of people doing math problems in their minds.
What will happen?
Your brain will start sending signals to different parts of your body to make sure that they are "asleep". In reality this all happens inside your brain.
Have you ever had that "falling" feeling while half asleep? It can be something like that. You MUST NOT move when this happens.
Another common occurrence is a tremor in the legs or arms or a feeling of numbness. This is also normal / don't react.
Heart racing, pressure in the chest, hypnagogic imagery (seeing shapes/lights etc behind your closed eyelids) all normal, DO NOT REACT!
For me the point where I feel that it's almost over is when I start hearing things (test of the ears) and there is something like a bang! followed by a sucking sound... Perfectly normal - carry on - nothing to freak out about...
Sleep Paralysis
So you went through all that. Well done you are now legally asleep as far as your brain is concerned. Your body is paralysed and you are sleeping. But you played a trick on your brain. You are conscious and you know you are asleep. Now you have a choice:
Open your eyes
Think of somewhere nice to be and open your eyes. You will probably wake up in your bed anyway. The experiment has failed... Or has it? COUNT YOUR FINGERS. If the answer is not 5 (or if you cannot see the fingers properly) then you are in luck! you are dreaming and you can move as well... go have fun!
Sit Up THEN Open your eyes
I prefer to sit up and then open my eyes. In this way my brain cannot trick me into thinking I am paralysed and freak me out. Advanced techniques can also be to fly out of your body and then open your eyes.
Scary Shit
So you opened your eyes and lo and behold you are in your room with some nasty company. You feel you are going to shit your pants, you try to scream but your voice is stuck, you try to move but your arms are like jello. Some motherfucker is sitting on your fucking chest and looking at you with fiery eyes. Did I scare you enough?
Well there is not much you can do and that is why WILD IS AN ADVANCED TECHNIQUE! you will have to use moves that you only learn through lucid dreaming to trick your brain into letting you go to the dream and not representing to you what you fear is happening to your paralysed body.
So please please try some of the easier techniques before WILD. Except if you like this shit in which case you will probably wake up and find a really hot babe next to you ready for sex. In which case enjoy :)
Things to try instead
All the cool kids are WILDing... or that's what you think. In fact there are a lot of easier and more effective techniques you can try:
The real WILD (Morning WILD)
A "morning" WILD without the scary shit. You wake up preferably about 6 hours after you fell asleep, stay awake for a little bit (I prefer about 5 minutes - go to the bathroom or something) to regain consciousness and then stay still and try to WILD. It works a lot better. Imagine you are snoozing but trying to keep consciousness at the same time. The fact that you are already half asleep and it's probably day helps a lot with avoiding the creepiness... (In fact from what I've read this is the textbook WILD technique)
Re-enter Dream (DEILD - Dream Exit Induced Lucid Dream)
Basically when you wake up from a dream, don't open eyes etc. stay perfectly still try to keep your consciousness and remember the dream and you might find yourself inside it semi-lucid. Do a reality check.
Non-wake=>dream techniques
There are like a million techniques that help you get into dreams or make you realise you are dreaming while you are in the dream. I will not go into these right now, but they also work pretty well. They just need a bit more discipline in everyday life (reality checks, dream journal etc).
Enjoy and if there are useful comments I will incorporate them in the text...
Posted Mar 27, 2012, 5:30 AM UTC · edited