One time years ago i went to bed and focused on getting lucid right away without waking up later or anything and i was able to stay focused and got into a dream
I think there's a fragile balance you need to strike between falling asleep too fast - forgetting to remain aware, and making your mind so overactive that it prevents you from falling asleep. I've experienced the WILD bodily paralysis vibrations about 5-6 times over the past two months, but the experience is always fleeting. The dream environment usually remains black or only has some very grainy, scant scenery (like it's covered by heavy visual TV static), and I wake up soon after. I'm never able to move into a fully-fledged lucid dream. (But I also don't use an alarm to wake up after 6 hours, as I tend to enter REM sleep instantly most nights). Anyhow, when I do manage to achieve WILD, it involves letting myself fall asleep normally, and then jolting myself to become aware right at the moment when I'm starting to drift off. The advantage of this is that it allows me to fall asleep without an over-active mind. But the downside is that, because I'm drifting off, I usually forget to jolt myself back to awareness. There only seems to be a 10 second window in which to achieve this. The most challenging part lies in trying to simultaneously fall asleep while maintaining just enough awareness (like a battery on stand-by mode) to trigger the vibrations at exactly the right moment.
"There seems to be only a 10 second window in which to achieve this". I was thinking the exact same thing a couple of days ago. After practicing WBTB, I return to sleep normally (no mantras or whatever) waiting for that optimum window of time to come. For me, this window of opportunity is characterized by 1) a sensation of irrestibile sleep (that nice feeling of having your body totally relaxed and ready to fall asleep) and, at the same time, by 2) the capacity of maintaining awareness. So I try to take advantage of this (a very challenging task, as you mentioned). If I am successful, this can lead to a WILD. (For me, these WILD dreams generally have a high awarenees level, but start with low levels of reality - blurred vision, for example). However, most of the times I can only enjoy some seconds of this window, but then fall asleep. Anyways, this greatly increases te chances of a DILD some minutes later.
The problem is that even though you enter rem immediately it's harder to meanti aware because if you mentain aware you will not fall asleep,this is one of the reasons that I'm the middle of the night is way better,you can fall asleep and remaining aware in the same time much more easily
You did a pretty good job here. You didn't fall for the miths that your sleeping position is integral to how you WILD. Also, I noticed that you touched on anchors a bit, but you didn't call them that. WILD is indeed a balancing act. Too much attention and you don't get to sleep, too little, and you don't retain awareness. The one thing though, intense focus isn't generally something I'd recommend people do for WILD, but it is a balancing act, so experimentation with what anchors a person uses is definitely good. You touched a good bit on mental anchors, but there are environmental ones as well, the most popular of these are white noise, having a fan on to hear or feel, or using a sensation that you're experiencing. I'm mor a mental anchor guy myself though, but I don't WILD all the time. I do it more oppertunistically when I'm awake and think I could pull it off. When it comes to transitioning, this last part you talked about, I've had a variety of transitions from sudden to subtle. I've been lifted up, spun around, and put down a dark hole. I've ended up on an airliner, still my favorite incubation, back in November with LD 11. A lot of transitions though are quite subtle. I go from laying in bed doing WILD to dreaming about laying in bed doing WILD. It can be really interesting at times for sure. Being blind, I don't get a lot of visuals, more tactiles. I love the imagination movement/imagination control tip there as well. I've been recommended it by several people. With the sleep paralysis thing, you got that half right, half wrong. Sleep paralysis is not a common condition and not likely to experience, even during transition. REM atonia sets in after you've transitioned, but you can experience hypnagogic halusinations and sensations. It's definitely not required of course, so you got that right. That's really the only thing I can fault you for here. You did a good job on this tutorial. I'm writing this as I listen, so things are getting added over time. A majority of dreams and the most vivid ones are REM dreams, though NREM dreams do happen, they're usually less vivid though and for many harder to remember. The sleep paralysis thing is really the only thing I have any issue with, so good job on avoiding the other pitfalls common in WILD tutorials. :)
I am really thankful for this video, I has declared a lot to me. I think you did a wonderful job at explaining everything understandably and extensively. By far the best guide, thank you. Btw I also really like the way you "designed" the video. I found it visually very "attractive" and for such detailed tutorials it may be a good approach. I still love the format when you sit in front of the camera (I think it suits your dream story videos, etc.) but for indepth tutorials this is a very good choice.
WILD is my preferred method of lucid dreaming as it works almost every time for me. I wake up after 4 hours of sleep... Go to the toilet... And then lye back down straight away (on my back with my eyes closed) and perform some meditation. Usually I enter sleep paralysis very quickly (I know you don't need to enter that way but it's just the way I do it). Then during sleep paralysis I continue meditating and staring into the back of my closed eyelids until the hypnagogic imagery pulls me down a big colourful tunnel (my most recent video explains what this feels like) and boom, I'm lucid! Another thing that helps me if I don't feel myself getting anywhere but my body feels like it's asleep is, I allow myself to fall asleep and a lot of the time I'll feel the vibratory or sleep paralysis state kick in and wake me up again and I'll use some meditation untill the hypnagogic imagery appears and again, enter from sleep paralysis. :)
When you say sleep paralysis, are you referring to that sensation where your body starts vibrating all over and you can hear a sound like rushing wind in your ears? I experience that quite often, although I'm not sure I'm fully paralyzed when it happens. I'll always get lucid instantly, but all I can see is black. I immediately move my hand in front of my face to try count my fingers (and my real arm doesn't move, which means I must be paralyzed) but then I can't see my hand. I can still just see blackness. At that point, the vibrations wane in and out of intensity for about 10 - 20 seconds. If they get stronger, then it seems like I'm closer to waking. Then I always wake up after about 20 seconds. I only ever see my hand in front of my face when I'm already in a dream and recognize a DILD dream sign. But even then, blackness starts replacing the dream scene behind my hand, and then I wake up shortly thereafter. Been trying for a few months now and my most vivid lucid dream was the very first one I had, which was a DILD one and completely by accident.
@@snozzlehead92 Yes. I do something similar when it doesn't work. I'll find myself in a false awakening performing a reality check. The only time I do reality checks throughout the day is before and after sleep and it fits in nicely from turning those false awakenings that I get from failed WILD attempts into lucid dreams. :)
Have you ever felt like you are being pulled out of your body because thats how it is for me i cant get into a lucid dream because when i start getting pulled away i panick
These few days, I've been trying to just use WILD everyday as practice. Yesterday, I set my alarm as I usually do, and fell asleep. I was so exhuasted, I slept through the entire thing, without even remembering my dream! That night sucked, I must admit.
Whenever I manage to lucid dream I cannot focus on the dream for more than a few minutes. I start visualizing myself in my bed and I can feel my body pressing down on the mattress; shortly after that the dream just ends. Is there anything I can do to stop thinking about what is happening and focus more on my dream?
How much awareness do you have? I think I had something similar, but my gut instinct was to look at my hands and that snapped things back. A second time I kind of "pulled" myself back into the dream. At the minute I'm still working on dream control (I often feel like I'm watching myself do things) so I have to rely on my dream self.
During my first lucid dream (no technique, just reality checks) I got too exited while trying to fly. I think maybe engaging your senses while still in the dream can unblurr the dream.
Also last night I woke up at 3 and I closed my eyes and as soon as I did I opened them again and I looked at the clock and it was 351, I was like…. No way.. then I closed them again and you guessed it I opened them to see my clock say it was 340, is that a false awakening?
Yes, that'd be a false awakening. If you realized you were dreaming, that was a lucid dream as well. Also, WILD is not about focusing. It should be a passibe engagement, and has nothing to do with sleep paralysis. He has some good points here, minus focusing and the whole thing with sleep paralysis. He only suggests really a couple specific anchoring options in this one, not anchoring itself. Think he has a newer WILD vid, not sure though.
I was attempting this last night and I ended up seeing all sorts of white and blue swirling colours, but it took a long time to get to sleep and eventually I felt compelled to open my eyes. I played with lucid dreaming 10 years ago and am kind of new back in the game, so I suppose it'll take a while to get used to it :(
Ok I have 2 questions 1 is it ok to swallow or should I avoid it or just let it happen 2 can I move my eyes behind my eyeslids or will that restart the wild
Don't stress over these little things like swallowing, scratching, moving your eyes behind your closes eyelids, or trying to be completely still... it will only prevent you from falling asleep and therefore ruin your chances at WILD. You want to fall asleep, so swallow and scratch all you like, it won't stop your body from falling asleep. Just take it easy while keeping your focus.
Ily bro, i tried to lucid dream for soo long and it just didnt work. I followed your tutorial and it worked on the first try. I sleep so deep that you can scream in my ear and i wont notice. Btw do you have any tips how to make lucid dreams longer and more vivid?
how do you stay focused tho, while i feel myself transitioning i get too excited or like “wow it’s finally happening” cuz i’ve never been able to lucid dream before and when i get too “excited” or just aware or something, i lose all focus and then i can feel the transition stop
Try making a list of what you want to do in your lucid dream. It help a lot to know what to expect in your dream. If your still too “excited” try meditating before going to bed.
@@itsjoseph875 it does at first but im curious because so many people explain that theyve been in the plac for hours, days weeks or months. never had a dream last more than what MAYBE felt like an hour
Its not reality shifting in the sense that you actually change your reality and become part of another, its more like you imagine that you are there. Its pretty similar to a lucid dream.
I’ve been trying to lucid dream for a while. Last night, during a dream, I remember trying the reality check where you hold your nose and see if you can breathe. I remember I could still breathe but I didn’t get fully lucid. It was still a normal dream. I continued to ask myself if I was actually dreaming or not. I think I even counted my fingers, and I still didn’t go lucid. Is there something I’m doing wrong?
Once you ask yourself if ur dreaming and you do a reality check to confirm it. Then tell yourself you are lucid and that should work and try to interact with the dream
Use schema, imagination, and expectation to shape it. You're lucid, so grats on that, but now to do something with it. For dream controls if you're having issues, I recommend practicing with your imagination while awake. This does a few things, including help create a schema for the control you want to do, give you an idea what success would look/sound/feel like, and help with your confidence. You're basically building an association between the action to get what you want and the result, the thing you want to happen. Try imagining that dark void, then something filling the void, maybe just light at first, maybe a room, a location. Then try engaging all your senses, see something, hear something, touch something, even take a bite out of something, just engage your senses. If it's a void, then it doesn't have a shape, nor rules, so take that mindset with you and shape the dream how you want it. :)
Hi im trying to start learning lucid dreaming and i wanna buy some supplements like dreamleaf or vividream but i live in belgium. Do u now any sites that i can trus that ship to europe ? Hope u can help me thanks any wah .
Hey mat another question but this is a little of a special case I do something that I made called adrenaline training were I basically put my self in fight or flight mode and become super human for a little. I know iys illegal but I don't care and I was ganna ask can I get similar results from doing somthing in a lucid dream like asking my subconscious to activate more muscle fibers in the real world. By super human strength I mean I accidently picked up a boat that was 3.3k lb and didn't even realize the weight but also damaged myself and blacked out.
You can train your mind in a lucid dream but you can't give yourself super power. Your body have limits, the most you can do is to learn technique and to gain the confidence that you can actually do something.
If you can fall asleep with sounds or music, you can WILD with sounds or music. You can use the sound or music as an environmental anchor, so instead of counting or whatever, just passively engage with and pay attention to that music or sound as you fall asleep.
I have a Question and I hope anyone answers me. 7:53 So when I do Wild (I try everyday) and I stay focused by counting, then sometimes for just a second I would black out and then I kind of Instantly have an Image in my mind. Is this the "minds eye image" that is talked about here? When I regain conciousness and I see the scene is that what i should try to engage with?
Depends on what you're seeing, level of detail, etc. I'd recommend imagination control for this. Try imagine interacting with it, and imagine that you can feel whatever you're touching. Engage your senses, don't rush it, and see what happens. If you can firmly feel yourself feeling what you're imagining, hear what you're imagining, and see what you're imagining in first person, then I'd say you're good to go.
Last night I tried and I started vibrating, I got extreme cold shivers and my ears were ringing and it was getting louder every second, this lasted about 5 seconds and I woke up, I think I’m extremely close
You were definitely experiencing hypnagogic halusinations, sensory experiences that happen during the transition between waking and sleep. Not everyone experiences or notices them, but they're normal.
If you know about chakras, try charging them up right before you go to sleep, and then set your intention that you will have a lucid dream. The first time I did this, not only did I have a lucid dream, but I was able to control that dream and it lasted for a while. My intention was to control my dreams though, not just have a lucid one.
@@howdareyou5800 right, but the other person's intention I thought was to just have a lucid dream to begin w/ The controling aspect is the next step, and most people aren't very comfortable leaping ahead in these matters. Do you know where the chakras are located? If you do, then you start at the base chakra going up the spine and breathing into each one while you vibrate each chakras seed mantra. For example: the base chakra seed mantra is lum. So you would breathe into the chakra focusing on it and then on the out breath, you would vibrate lllllllluuuuuuuummmmmmmm while concentrating on that chakra./spot. You would do this repeatedly until you feel a nice energetic charge in that chakra. If you can't feel energy in it yet, then continue for 5 sets of in and out breaths ending w/ lum. Then move onto the next chakra and so on, all the way up to the crown chakra which you can just feel it with breathing into it and charging it like the others.(because it doesn't have a specific seed mantra to empower it. The rest of the seed mantras for each chakra are ffvam( for the sacral chakra) rum for the navel chakra, hum for the heart chakra, yum for the throat chakra, om for the 3rd eye chakra. No seed mantra for the crown chakra so just breathe into it filling it up w/ light/power. Then after all chakras are buzzing, lie down if you aren't already and set your intention. Speak your desire in your own authority. Something like, " I will control my dreams while I sleep tonight and remember this when I wake up." After trying to get lucid and control my dreams for a while to little avail, I was able to do this the very first time I tried it! Good luck. Chakras are powerful, so don't go too fast nor charge them up more than I have said, otherwise you could get unpleasant side effects instead. Have fun!
Today's a good day. Tipharot uploads a video on WILD which I've been tryin to do. Lucid dream portal uploads a video. Giz Edward's comes back to make a lucid dreaming series. I can finally watch inception cuz it came to Netflix today. I wonder if I'll have a lucid dream tonight too.
Hey Matt how are you? Still trying to get my first Lucid Dream I’m remembering my dreams every day now though and doing meditation so hopefully I can get this first one done so it’s easier to get more.
My biggest issue is I'm too chill. Aliens could be taking over the world and wouldn't blink. You don't have "Aha!" moments when you don't react to anything. It's very annoying.
I was so close last night after watching your video, the only reason i wasnt fully lucid was because the dream wasnt fully formed. Ima try again tomorrow
Tipharot! Did do you have a dream about a girl with rainbow hair last night? because you were in my lucid dream last night! unless we both just astral projected?! anyway thank you for your channel I love you
I might have something that helps. I've had this happen a lot (like almost 40 times this year alone and sometimes two or three times in a single day) and I can confirm how annoying that is! I'm sorry you have to go through this annoying experience (of waking up from it)! I would accidentally wake up or have a false awakening I don't detect. I accidentally woke up like 10 or 20 times in a row recently, but managed not to the past 4 times (today included). I thought I woke up each time and didn't get lucid, but I was actually in a dream at that point and didn't realize it! I noticed I tend to get an adrenaline rush for whatever reason, whether it's excitement, or more likely, the split-second realization I need to maintain awareness or that I'm actually in it. I'm assuming the adrenaline rush is probably the same thing that allows one to wake up with an alarm and has a similar effect while in sleep paralysis. Lately, I've just been making sure that adrenaline rush doesn't happen mainly by staying calm and spending a little more effort maintaining awareness so I don't have the split-second realization. It seems to come down to that happening. The first time I tried that, I had expectations I would wake up, but I only focused on not getting the adrenaline rush and nothing else, and it worked! It didn't matter how bad my expectations of waking up were! It became easier the following times! I don't do anything else because it's supposed to be automatic and lead to a dream whether you're aware in it or not (as you'll probably notice with regular dreams where you don't witness it). I found that no matter how bad my expectations of waking up are, as long as I can avoid the adrenaline rush, it will override any expectations or negative connotations. I just defy the expectations of me waking up because they don't directly cause me to wake up like the adrenaline rush does. It will probably be hard to do at first, but just try. It's better than being afraid of trying and waking up like what already happens! Also, keep everything natural, like breathing if you didn't do that already. If it isn't, try to make it natural with ease and don't worry about whether that will wake you up. I didn't get any success with not waking up until I took a leap of faith with stuff like that; since the problem is expectation based, something related to that has to change, so experiment with different stuff like that until you succeed with not waking up and hopefully entering a lucid dream! I found each time I didn't wake up, the sensations stopped and I thought I did! My body had fully become paralyzed and because I was accidentally focusing on it too much, I didn't go into a dream. Lying there was the dream! Getting up or visualizing getting up I think is the answer to that problem. Just because that happens doesn't mean I woke up! If not focusing on the body too much, the dream should just be there eventually. It's been a little while since I successfully entered a lucid dream, but the false awakenings were like going from my paralyzed body directly into the dream! Another thing that I've run into is remembering what to do on the spot so I don't wake up because of the bad habits I had formed! When I still struggled with waking up, I kept telling myself that doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing! Today, I did literally nothing other than specifically avoiding the adrenaline rush and focusing on any hypnogogia or thoughts that naturally flow as I have a hard time entering the dream without doing that (because I'm focusing too much on my body and breathing and not enough on the dream that's naturally trying to form). When not witnessing sleep paralysis, somehow the mind naturally focuses on only that and that works perfectly every time assuming no known official disorders are preventing that. We do nothing when it happens while not conscious and it works every time! Remember, expectations of waking up don't directly cause it, it's more likely the reaction to those expectations, so focus more on calmly avoiding the adrenaline rush that would normally cause a wake-up (as I'm sure the same thing is probably happening to you). Hope this helps! I should get a notification if you have any more questions about it! I've suffered this problem way too many times, which is weird because prior to this year, I had no problem entering lucid dreams nearly every time when I just happen to be in sleep paralysis. I honestly didn't even know what I was doing, but somehow did it correctly. I've suffered through this problem many times and even got help from Lucid Dream Portal (Daniel Love) and that's been really helpful. He has at least 4 decades of experience with lucid dreaming, so that's another channel I would recommend if you don't watch already. He has a more recent WILD tutorial that might be really helpful! Let me know if you have any more questions about this! I'm still not entering lucid dreams properly and suffered the same problems, so let's fight this together!
I should probably also mention it happened so much I even got to the point where I forgot that it can lead to a lucid dream, even though I had done it years prior before I started running into this issue! I got to where I forgot how sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming correlate and I'm sure that's another reason I fail to maintain awareness these days. Even though I remember now, I forget as it's happening, so make sure to remember that during the experience (after it's started and you can think clearly without worrying about waking up; prioritize not waking up first or just happen to do this and not waking up correctly).
@@zinsy23 thanks for the tips, I appreciate it!! 😁 I'll also check out the WILD video you mentioned and see if that helps. If I think of anything else that I have questions with I'll try to let you know as well!
@@Jaybiiird Sounds good! Remember you might fight some expectations you currently have and more than anything, to keep things simple! It can be done while not conscious and that's the simplest it can be! You got this!
I've only successfully WILDed twice in my life. The first was a few years ago. That was an unexpected one. I woke up in the night and was trying to go to sleep and suddenly there was a bright flash and I appeared at the top my my stairs. A few days ago I could have done a DEILD but I wanted to write the dream because it was cool. This morning I woke up in the night and I was drifting back to sleep and I heard a voice which I guessed was one of my cousins teaching me how to WILD. She said to imagine our grandpa's house and so I did. Nothing was happening. So she said, now imagine the living room and kitchen area. So I did but it was just silhoettes and outlines like you see when you imagine in your mind. She then said to look up at a light fixture, and I looked up and actually saw a light fixture that was in the kitchen area. I reached up and saw my dream arm and hand reach up and touch it. Then I was kind of in the dream and took a few steps. It was dim in the place and i yelled for it to have more clarity and I looked up to a light and it got brighter and hurt my eyes a little and I took another step and then I woke up.
The problem with WILD is that i either just fall asleep, or i end up just opening my eyes because i tried for a period off time and could not fall asleep. What should i do to fix this? How many attempts does it take to become lucid with a WILD technique?
Sometimes when I dream I'm awake enough to realise its a dream, its a weird thing that happens because sometimes I can control myself as dream character and move about and do as I wish, this is usually after I've woken up for a min after being asleep then sleeping again which restarts the dream
Can you do a video on more lucid dreaming technique/method misconception? I don’t know how many times I’ve given up on WILD because I couldn’t lay completely still like the tutorials tell me to
Can I try it without waking up 6 hours later, just trying WILD when I am falling asleep, I know if I put an alarm I will either sleep walk and closing the alarm or I will wake up and won't be able to go to sleep again. How less effective would be then?
While it is possible to WILD at the beginning of the night, it is an advanced technique for a few reasons. 1, you haven't yet figured out what anchor will work for you and how to balance sleep and awareness. 2, you have to retain awareness through N1, N2, and N3 sleep or until you get a NREM dream if you notice one. 3, Depending on how you attempt this, you could either just fail outright or unnecessarily keep yourself awake for an extended period of time. Think about it this way. With 0 training, can you run a marathan? Sure, possibly, depending on your stamina and level of fitness, but will you do a good job? Probably not. Same with trying to WILD at the beginning of the night. WBTB makes it just that much easier.
@@SkyfallBlindDreamer when you feel like there is a pressure on your belly button area, does that mean you fell asleep? because i have stayed for about an hour on that state and i haven't gotten lucid (it was in the start of the night, so i expected it, but still.) how long do you think it takes to get into a lucid dream from the start of the night?
Doesn't sound like it per say. If you're trying WILD at the beginning of the night, it could be a while. You could get lucid in a stage N1 dream, or you could have to maintain that awareness through your first sleep cycle, including N3, until you hit REM sleep. We do dream in non-REM sleep stages, though these dreams tend to be less vivid and harder to remember on a general level. How long does it typically take you to fall asleep at the beginning of the night? If you're doing this for over an hour, you're likely doing it for too long and you're likely too aware as well. Passive awareness is what's sought after, which is more like noticing the anchor that you're using rather than focusing on it. Also, WILD doesn't require any specific sleeping position or laying completely still.
@@SkyfallBlindDreamer i ussualy take around 15-20 minutes to fall asleep, and i don't think i'm focusing too much, i always let my mind wander for the majority of the time i'm trying wild in the beggining of the night, just in case i'm being too aware. and i have a question, i tried to do wild with wbtb and i always get too tired and give up, do you think i should wake myself up a little bit, or do you think i should ignore the tiredness and try to do it anyway?
@@isaquedopao6667 If you'd normally take 20 minutes to fall asleep, yet you find yourself trying WILD for over an hour, that's a pretty solid indication of being too aware. During WBTB, if you think you are too tired, you can wake yourself up a bit. Just keep in mind that your goal is to find that balance of awareness between staying awake and falling asleep unconsciously, in order to be aware of the transition to sleep without keeping yourself awake.
This video was so helpful for me. I used to focus so much on staying still during WILD that I couldn't actually relax enough to fall asleep. This method worked first time!
Last night was really strange, I knew what lucid dreaming was about a year ago and I didn’t do much last week I started back into it and I’ve remembered a dream every night since… I didn’t do that beforehand… yet I don’t find myself even realizing I’m in a dream until I wake up… not to mention that they are really blurry
I think I almost had a sild by accident actually last night. I set this app to play a sound throughout the night to tell me I was dreaming and I think it happened while I wasn't dreaming and I realized it but then I didn't go into a lucid dream sadly
I think so. Because I've had many instances , where I felt very tired in a dream. Laid down and fell asleep / rather woke up again , in another dream . But this time , sort of half lucidly musing that it was a dream . Still, I continued to behave more like a dream character . Than take full advantage , of the situation. I've also had normal lucid dreams of course . Where I've known completely , that I'm lucid . But unfortunately, I continue to have more sporadic cases , of the first type .. Rather than the second . So I'm open to advice , as well!!
@@pissboyporter46 It's mostly a combination tech. Usually a mantra like , " I will realize I am dreaming tonight ". Paired with visualizing a dream scene . Or else , simply going with the flow of hypnogogic imagery , etc. And I usually wait a few hours after sleeping , before attempting . However, I've only achieved one real Wild in my life. Not counting the spontaneous Deilds , I could do as a child . But can very seldom , achieve anymore . Most of the lucida I have had , over past twenty years or so. Have been Dilds. Or border line Wilds , where I had lapses in consciousness . But eventually, felt like I awoke within the dream , soon after it started . Wish I could be more helpful; but I'm still striving to have more consistent LDS , as well.
My issue is, when i feel sleep paralysis, i cant take deep breaths, my lungs just start feeling stuck when i deep breather to get more air, so its really uncomfortable to not feel a bit anxious, and when i try to not breathe as much it feels like i aint getting enough air
I really want to try this and have wanted to lucid dream for ages but I'm terrified of sleep paralysis even though I've never had it. Actually terrified that I cant bring myself to try this anymore.
Initiated, but I make a ton of spelling mistakes as well. Being blind and my screen reader pronouncing words correctly when they're not spelled right will do that. :)
My biggest problem in lucid dreams is that I find dream characters a bit horrifying so my subconscious let's them be as creepy as I expect them to be. It's just the thought that I see these people in front of me and I can feel them but they are not real and could start to do some random shit like following me
I've got so close to pulling off WILD a few times. Usually I fall asleep too fast and have a DILD in a dream bedroom instead. I've reached the "buzzing" stage and had mild auditory hallucinations. I think I just need to commit to the process and not back out or anything.
Longer sleep allows the mind and body to relax more, thus you are groggy when you wake up and prone to forgetting. Shorter sleep is usually interrupted by an alarm which cuts right through the middle of a dream allowing a rather vivid recollection.
I think it depends on when do you wake up, if it's an hour or two after falling asleep, I don't think it's gonna work. If 5-6 hours, then it should do it. Correct me if I'm wrong, I barely know myself
Roughly every ~90 minutes of sleep you'll enter an REM period, so it depends when you wake up as Daniel said. You can always try it any time you wake up from sleep though - and if you wake up from a dream, even better, as 1) that means you're almost certainly in REM, and 2) you can do DEILD instead, which works quicker/better in my experience! :)
Natural wakings? That's awesome! You're a step ahead of everyone else with that. I do MILD and WILD with natural wakings all the time and highly recommend it.
The fact that I've been unintentionally doing this all my life, and I've wanted to lucid dream for years now. And I'm already this close? I guess now I can try really hard in the one step I'm missing :D
Yes. I have been waiting for an updated WILD for a long time now, and I was so chuffed when I saw that it was the most voted in the poll. Thank you so much!
One time years ago i went to bed and focused on getting lucid right away without waking up later or anything and i was able to stay focused and got into a dream
I'm so happy that you said that whe don't need to lay on our back.
I was always doing that, and after i learned this i had a lucid dream instantly :].
I fell asleep while watching this video, and I immediately noticed I was in a dream.
I think there's a fragile balance you need to strike between falling asleep too fast - forgetting to remain aware, and making your mind so overactive that it prevents you from falling asleep. I've experienced the WILD bodily paralysis vibrations about 5-6 times over the past two months, but the experience is always fleeting. The dream environment usually remains black or only has some very grainy, scant scenery (like it's covered by heavy visual TV static), and I wake up soon after. I'm never able to move into a fully-fledged lucid dream. (But I also don't use an alarm to wake up after 6 hours, as I tend to enter REM sleep instantly most nights). Anyhow, when I do manage to achieve WILD, it involves letting myself fall asleep normally, and then jolting myself to become aware right at the moment when I'm starting to drift off. The advantage of this is that it allows me to fall asleep without an over-active mind. But the downside is that, because I'm drifting off, I usually forget to jolt myself back to awareness. There only seems to be a 10 second window in which to achieve this. The most challenging part lies in trying to simultaneously fall asleep while maintaining just enough awareness (like a battery on stand-by mode) to trigger the vibrations at exactly the right moment.
"There seems to be only a 10 second window in which to achieve this". I was thinking the exact same thing a couple of days ago. After practicing WBTB, I return to sleep normally (no mantras or whatever) waiting for that optimum window of time to come.
For me, this window of opportunity is characterized by 1) a sensation of irrestibile sleep (that nice feeling of having your body totally relaxed and ready to fall asleep) and, at the same time, by 2) the capacity of maintaining awareness.
So I try to take advantage of this (a very challenging task, as you mentioned).
If I am successful, this can lead to a WILD. (For me, these WILD dreams generally have a high awarenees level, but start with low levels of reality - blurred vision, for example).
However, most of the times I can only enjoy some seconds of this window, but then fall asleep. Anyways, this greatly increases te chances of a DILD some minutes later.
The problem is that even though you enter rem immediately it's harder to meanti aware because if you mentain aware you will not fall asleep,this is one of the reasons that I'm the middle of the night is way better,you can fall asleep and remaining aware in the same time much more easily
You did a pretty good job here. You didn't fall for the miths that your sleeping position is integral to how you WILD. Also, I noticed that you touched on anchors a bit, but you didn't call them that. WILD is indeed a balancing act. Too much attention and you don't get to sleep, too little, and you don't retain awareness. The one thing though, intense focus isn't generally something I'd recommend people do for WILD, but it is a balancing act, so experimentation with what anchors a person uses is definitely good.
You touched a good bit on mental anchors, but there are environmental ones as well, the most popular of these are white noise, having a fan on to hear or feel, or using a sensation that you're experiencing. I'm mor a mental anchor guy myself though, but I don't WILD all the time. I do it more oppertunistically when I'm awake and think I could pull it off.
When it comes to transitioning, this last part you talked about, I've had a variety of transitions from sudden to subtle. I've been lifted up, spun around, and put down a dark hole. I've ended up on an airliner, still my favorite incubation, back in November with LD 11. A lot of transitions though are quite subtle. I go from laying in bed doing WILD to dreaming about laying in bed doing WILD. It can be really interesting at times for sure. Being blind, I don't get a lot of visuals, more tactiles. I love the imagination movement/imagination control tip there as well. I've been recommended it by several people.
With the sleep paralysis thing, you got that half right, half wrong. Sleep paralysis is not a common condition and not likely to experience, even during transition. REM atonia sets in after you've transitioned, but you can experience hypnagogic halusinations and sensations. It's definitely not required of course, so you got that right. That's really the only thing I can fault you for here.
You did a good job on this tutorial.
I'm writing this as I listen, so things are getting added over time. A majority of dreams and the most vivid ones are REM dreams, though NREM dreams do happen, they're usually less vivid though and for many harder to remember. The sleep paralysis thing is really the only thing I have any issue with, so good job on avoiding the other pitfalls common in WILD tutorials. :)
You did a pretty good job with the misconceptions. Me and other people have to address those a lot on the discord server I am on.
I am really thankful for this video, I has declared a lot to me. I think you did a wonderful job at explaining everything understandably and extensively. By far the best guide, thank you.
Btw I also really like the way you "designed" the video. I found it visually very "attractive" and for such detailed tutorials it may be a good approach. I still love the format when you sit in front of the camera (I think it suits your dream story videos, etc.) but for indepth tutorials this is a very good choice.
WILD is my preferred method of lucid dreaming as it works almost every time for me. I wake up after 4 hours of sleep... Go to the toilet... And then lye back down straight away (on my back with my eyes closed) and perform some meditation.
Usually I enter sleep paralysis very quickly (I know you don't need to enter that way but it's just the way I do it).
Then during sleep paralysis I continue meditating and staring into the back of my closed eyelids until the hypnagogic imagery pulls me down a big colourful tunnel (my most recent video explains what this feels like) and boom, I'm lucid!
Another thing that helps me if I don't feel myself getting anywhere but my body feels like it's asleep is, I allow myself to fall asleep and a lot of the time I'll feel the vibratory or sleep paralysis state kick in and wake me up again and I'll use some meditation untill the hypnagogic imagery appears and again, enter from sleep paralysis. :)
When you say sleep paralysis, are you referring to that sensation where your body starts vibrating all over and you can hear a sound like rushing wind in your ears? I experience that quite often, although I'm not sure I'm fully paralyzed when it happens. I'll always get lucid instantly, but all I can see is black. I immediately move my hand in front of my face to try count my fingers (and my real arm doesn't move, which means I must be paralyzed) but then I can't see my hand. I can still just see blackness. At that point, the vibrations wane in and out of intensity for about 10 - 20 seconds. If they get stronger, then it seems like I'm closer to waking. Then I always wake up after about 20 seconds. I only ever see my hand in front of my face when I'm already in a dream and recognize a DILD dream sign. But even then, blackness starts replacing the dream scene behind my hand, and then I wake up shortly thereafter. Been trying for a few months now and my most vivid lucid dream was the very first one I had, which was a DILD one and completely by accident.
@@snozzlehead92 Yes. I do something similar when it doesn't work. I'll find myself in a false awakening performing a reality check. The only time I do reality checks throughout the day is before and after sleep and it fits in nicely from turning those false awakenings that I get from failed WILD attempts into lucid dreams. :)
Have you ever felt like you are being pulled out of your body because thats how it is for me i cant get into a lucid dream because when i start getting pulled away i panick
Super informative, more executable than 90% of tutorials, thanks
These few days, I've been trying to just use WILD everyday as practice. Yesterday, I set my alarm as I usually do, and fell asleep. I was so exhuasted, I slept through the entire thing, without even remembering my dream! That night sucked, I must admit.
Noo. Don't take wild as an habit only do it on the weekends Etc otherwise you'll mess up your sleep schedule
Thank you mat e been struggling so much and I needed this
alright ive had several lucid dreams in the past week from dild gonna try wild hopefully i can get this first try lol 🤞
Whenever I manage to lucid dream I cannot focus on the dream for more than a few minutes. I start visualizing myself in my bed and I can feel my body pressing down on the mattress; shortly after that the dream just ends. Is there anything I can do to stop thinking about what is happening and focus more on my dream?
Look into the DEILD method and next time this happens to you don’t open your eyes you might not actually be awake but just seeing black
How much awareness do you have? I think I had something similar, but my gut instinct was to look at my hands and that snapped things back. A second time I kind of "pulled" myself back into the dream. At the minute I'm still working on dream control (I often feel like I'm watching myself do things) so I have to rely on my dream self.
During my first lucid dream (no technique, just reality checks) I got too exited while trying to fly. I think maybe engaging your senses while still in the dream can unblurr the dream.
Thanks for the video love your videos been watching you for a long time thanks I was looking for a new Wild totorial 🏆
I just want to let you know you’re the person who inspired me to ld.
Lots of great ideas! Thanks, Matt! 😁
Also last night I woke up at 3 and I closed my eyes and as soon as I did I opened them again and I looked at the clock and it was 351, I was like…. No way.. then I closed them again and you guessed it I opened them to see my clock say it was 340, is that a false awakening?
Yes, that'd be a false awakening. If you realized you were dreaming, that was a lucid dream as well. Also, WILD is not about focusing. It should be a passibe engagement, and has nothing to do with sleep paralysis. He has some good points here, minus focusing and the whole thing with sleep paralysis. He only suggests really a couple specific anchoring options in this one, not anchoring itself. Think he has a newer WILD vid, not sure though.
This video made me lucid dream thank you so much
I bought some some the luciddream pill from 1 of your videos 😊❤
I was attempting this last night and I ended up seeing all sorts of white and blue swirling colours, but it took a long time to get to sleep and eventually I felt compelled to open my eyes. I played with lucid dreaming 10 years ago and am kind of new back in the game, so I suppose it'll take a while to get used to it :(
you got farther than me
Great video!! Thanks a lot!!
That’s a lot of notes to take
Ok I have 2 questions
1 is it ok to swallow or should I avoid it or just let it happen
2 can I move my eyes behind my eyeslids or will that restart the wild
Don't stress over these little things like swallowing, scratching, moving your eyes behind your closes eyelids, or trying to be completely still... it will only prevent you from falling asleep and therefore ruin your chances at WILD. You want to fall asleep, so swallow and scratch all you like, it won't stop your body from falling asleep. Just take it easy while keeping your focus.
I have a question: in a lucid dream if your flying can you feel the movement live for example as you would in a rollercoaster in real life?
Yeah
@@strawberttt wow, can't wait to go to bed never had one gonna try to follow the steps tonight and get one...
Ily bro, i tried to lucid dream for soo long and it just didnt work. I followed your tutorial and it worked on the first try. I sleep so deep that you can scream in my ear and i wont notice.
Btw do you have any tips how to make lucid dreams longer and more vivid?
Lot of thanksss 👋👋
how do you stay focused tho, while i feel myself transitioning i get too excited or like “wow it’s finally happening” cuz i’ve never been able to lucid dream before and when i get too “excited” or just aware or something, i lose all focus and then i can feel the transition stop
Try making a list of what you want to do in your lucid dream. It help a lot to know what to expect in your dream. If your still too “excited” try meditating before going to bed.
Can you do a video on “reality shifting”? Curious on your opinions on it. If you think its a lucid dream or more of an OBE.
Sounds fake
@@itsjoseph875 it does at first but im curious because so many people explain that theyve been in the plac for hours, days weeks or months. never had a dream last more than what MAYBE felt like an hour
Its not reality shifting in the sense that you actually change your reality and become part of another, its more like you imagine that you are there. Its pretty similar to a lucid dream.
@@donslink9885 have you done it
@@pinkfurryhat No but that is what I've understood from people that have.
I’ve been trying to lucid dream for a while. Last night, during a dream, I remember trying the reality check where you hold your nose and see if you can breathe. I remember I could still breathe but I didn’t get fully lucid. It was still a normal dream. I continued to ask myself if I was actually dreaming or not. I think I even counted my fingers, and I still didn’t go lucid. Is there something I’m doing wrong?
Jacob Erdody Yes. Don’t just practice RCs during the day, do them when something weird or dreamlike happens and really question your reality.
Once you ask yourself if ur dreaming and you do a reality check to confirm it. Then tell yourself you are lucid and that should work and try to interact with the dream
How do you a dream.
What i mean is i know im dreeming its just its all black and there is nothing
What do you see when someone says the word "Elephant?"
@@crisbowman Elephant 😔
Use schema, imagination, and expectation to shape it. You're lucid, so grats on that, but now to do something with it. For dream controls if you're having issues, I recommend practicing with your imagination while awake. This does a few things, including help create a schema for the control you want to do, give you an idea what success would look/sound/feel like, and help with your confidence. You're basically building an association between the action to get what you want and the result, the thing you want to happen.
Try imagining that dark void, then something filling the void, maybe just light at first, maybe a room, a location. Then try engaging all your senses, see something, hear something, touch something, even take a bite out of something, just engage your senses. If it's a void, then it doesn't have a shape, nor rules, so take that mindset with you and shape the dream how you want it. :)
Hi im trying to start learning lucid dreaming and i wanna buy some supplements like dreamleaf or vividream but i live in belgium. Do u now any sites that i can trus that ship to europe ? Hope u can help me thanks any wah .
Hey mat another question but this is a little of a special case I do something that I made called adrenaline training were I basically put my self in fight or flight mode and become super human for a little. I know iys illegal but I don't care and I was ganna ask can I get similar results from doing somthing in a lucid dream like asking my subconscious to activate more muscle fibers in the real world. By super human strength I mean I accidently picked up a boat that was 3.3k lb and didn't even realize the weight but also damaged myself and blacked out.
Kids...
@@Zafor-ium bru I'm serious and I'm not a kid
You can train your mind in a lucid dream but you can't give yourself super power. Your body have limits, the most you can do is to learn technique and to gain the confidence that you can actually do something.
You could train such a technique for sure. It would be wise to learn to sense physical damage during a practice so not to permanently injure anything.
@@crisbowman yeh I know I broke my knee picking up a boat its kinda to late but I'm still trying to do it
Initiated
Verified. Wake initiated lucid dreaming.
Can you listen to sounds or music while attempting this ?
If you can fall asleep with sounds or music, you can WILD with sounds or music. You can use the sound or music as an environmental anchor, so instead of counting or whatever, just passively engage with and pay attention to that music or sound as you fall asleep.
I have a Question and I hope anyone answers me.
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So when I do Wild (I try everyday) and I stay focused by counting, then sometimes for just a second I would black out and then I kind of Instantly have an Image in my mind. Is this the "minds eye image" that is talked about here? When I regain conciousness and I see the scene is that what i should try to engage with?
Just relax and stay there until the dream creates it self .💯 stay clam. Jesus loves you
Do you not experience this in your day to day life?
Depends on what you're seeing, level of detail, etc. I'd recommend imagination control for this. Try imagine interacting with it, and imagine that you can feel whatever you're touching. Engage your senses, don't rush it, and see what happens. If you can firmly feel yourself feeling what you're imagining, hear what you're imagining, and see what you're imagining in first person, then I'd say you're good to go.
Can you please make background game for your talking videos Hitman: Blood money? Btw Im aware that is not the type of video to put this comment.
Been trying for 2 years . Still no results.
Have you been keeping a dream journal? Doing reality checks? Using alarms?
Hey, do you still need help for lucid dreaming.
Do I have to lay on my back or can I sleep normally? I’m gonna try sleeping normally because I find it hard falling asleep on my back
It's better to try doing it on your back but if you really can't sleep on your back, you can sleep normally and it should still work.
Last night I tried and I started vibrating, I got extreme cold shivers and my ears were ringing and it was getting louder every second, this lasted about 5 seconds and I woke up, I think I’m extremely close
You were definitely experiencing hypnagogic halusinations, sensory experiences that happen during the transition between waking and sleep. Not everyone experiences or notices them, but they're normal.
None of my WILD attempts ever succeded, but maybe I'll get there one day. Thank you for the video! It's very informative 🙂.
If you know about chakras, try charging them up right before you go to sleep, and then set your intention that you will have a lucid dream.
The first time I did this, not only did I have a lucid dream, but I was able to control that dream and it lasted for a while.
My intention was to control my dreams though, not just have a lucid one.
@@nooneyouknowof well, you need a certain degree of lucidity to control them.
How does one charge one´s chakras?
thank you.
@@howdareyou5800 right, but the other person's intention I thought was to just have a lucid dream to begin w/
The controling aspect is the next step, and most people aren't very comfortable leaping ahead in these matters.
Do you know where the chakras are located?
If you do, then you start at the base chakra going up the spine and breathing into each one while you vibrate each chakras seed mantra.
For example: the base chakra seed mantra is lum. So you would breathe into the chakra focusing on it and then on the out breath, you would vibrate lllllllluuuuuuuummmmmmmm while concentrating on that chakra./spot. You would do this repeatedly until you feel a nice energetic charge in that chakra. If you can't feel energy in it yet, then continue for 5 sets of in and out breaths ending w/ lum.
Then move onto the next chakra and so on, all the way up to the crown chakra which you can just feel it with breathing into it and charging it like the others.(because it doesn't have a specific seed mantra to empower it.
The rest of the seed mantras for each chakra are ffvam( for the sacral chakra) rum for the navel chakra, hum for the heart chakra, yum for the throat chakra, om for the 3rd eye chakra. No seed mantra for the crown chakra so just breathe into it filling it up w/ light/power.
Then after all chakras are buzzing, lie down if you aren't already and set your intention.
Speak your desire in your own authority.
Something like, " I will control my dreams while I sleep tonight and remember this when I wake up."
After trying to get lucid and control my dreams for a while to little avail, I was able to do this the very first time I tried it!
Good luck. Chakras are powerful, so don't go too fast nor charge them up more than I have said, otherwise you could get unpleasant side effects instead.
Have fun!
Me either, but I semi-frequently experience spontaneous lucid dreams quite frequently anyway.
Have you lucid dreamed now?
Today's a good day. Tipharot uploads a video on WILD which I've been tryin to do. Lucid dream portal uploads a video. Giz Edward's comes back to make a lucid dreaming series. I can finally watch inception cuz it came to Netflix today. I wonder if I'll have a lucid dream tonight too.
Will you do a review of the Somni lucid dreaming mask?
@eggos @sifo It's actually a mask that tracks your eye movement and wakes you up, not necessarily a signaling mask.
Lucid dreaming masks like the Remee are great for blocking out external light. That's about all.
I had my first WILD Lucid dream this morning and i wasn't even trying i used MILD to get wild
Did you mantra while drifting to sleep
@@zenystyfn5670 no. it just kinda happened
I just slept watchin your vedio
Episode 3 Enter the dream
Restless leg is pretty annoying
maintaining awareness is easy, but falling asleep isnt because my heart beating too fast and my eyes throbbing.. why is that :(?????
Hey Matt how are you? Still trying to get my first Lucid Dream I’m remembering my dreams every day now though and doing meditation so hopefully I can get this first one done so it’s easier to get more.
My biggest issue is I'm too chill. Aliens could be taking over the world and wouldn't blink. You don't have "Aha!" moments when you don't react to anything. It's very annoying.
I was so close last night after watching your video, the only reason i wasnt fully lucid was because the dream wasnt fully formed. Ima try again tomorrow
Tipharot! Did do you have a dream about a girl with rainbow hair last night? because you were in my lucid dream last night! unless we both just astral projected?! anyway thank you for your channel I love you
I find myself starting to go into sleep paralysis and instantly wake up from it and have to start over.
Its quite annoying, any tips?
I might have something that helps. I've had this happen a lot (like almost 40 times this year alone and sometimes two or three times in a single day) and I can confirm how annoying that is! I'm sorry you have to go through this annoying experience (of waking up from it)! I would accidentally wake up or have a false awakening I don't detect. I accidentally woke up like 10 or 20 times in a row recently, but managed not to the past 4 times (today included). I thought I woke up each time and didn't get lucid, but I was actually in a dream at that point and didn't realize it! I noticed I tend to get an adrenaline rush for whatever reason, whether it's excitement, or more likely, the split-second realization I need to maintain awareness or that I'm actually in it. I'm assuming the adrenaline rush is probably the same thing that allows one to wake up with an alarm and has a similar effect while in sleep paralysis. Lately, I've just been making sure that adrenaline rush doesn't happen mainly by staying calm and spending a little more effort maintaining awareness so I don't have the split-second realization. It seems to come down to that happening. The first time I tried that, I had expectations I would wake up, but I only focused on not getting the adrenaline rush and nothing else, and it worked! It didn't matter how bad my expectations of waking up were! It became easier the following times! I don't do anything else because it's supposed to be automatic and lead to a dream whether you're aware in it or not (as you'll probably notice with regular dreams where you don't witness it).
I found that no matter how bad my expectations of waking up are, as long as I can avoid the adrenaline rush, it will override any expectations or negative connotations. I just defy the expectations of me waking up because they don't directly cause me to wake up like the adrenaline rush does. It will probably be hard to do at first, but just try. It's better than being afraid of trying and waking up like what already happens! Also, keep everything natural, like breathing if you didn't do that already. If it isn't, try to make it natural with ease and don't worry about whether that will wake you up. I didn't get any success with not waking up until I took a leap of faith with stuff like that; since the problem is expectation based, something related to that has to change, so experiment with different stuff like that until you succeed with not waking up and hopefully entering a lucid dream! I found each time I didn't wake up, the sensations stopped and I thought I did! My body had fully become paralyzed and because I was accidentally focusing on it too much, I didn't go into a dream. Lying there was the dream! Getting up or visualizing getting up I think is the answer to that problem. Just because that happens doesn't mean I woke up! If not focusing on the body too much, the dream should just be there eventually. It's been a little while since I successfully entered a lucid dream, but the false awakenings were like going from my paralyzed body directly into the dream!
Another thing that I've run into is remembering what to do on the spot so I don't wake up because of the bad habits I had formed! When I still struggled with waking up, I kept telling myself that doing nothing is better than doing the wrong thing! Today, I did literally nothing other than specifically avoiding the adrenaline rush and focusing on any hypnogogia or thoughts that naturally flow as I have a hard time entering the dream without doing that (because I'm focusing too much on my body and breathing and not enough on the dream that's naturally trying to form). When not witnessing sleep paralysis, somehow the mind naturally focuses on only that and that works perfectly every time assuming no known official disorders are preventing that. We do nothing when it happens while not conscious and it works every time! Remember, expectations of waking up don't directly cause it, it's more likely the reaction to those expectations, so focus more on calmly avoiding the adrenaline rush that would normally cause a wake-up (as I'm sure the same thing is probably happening to you).
Hope this helps! I should get a notification if you have any more questions about it! I've suffered this problem way too many times, which is weird because prior to this year, I had no problem entering lucid dreams nearly every time when I just happen to be in sleep paralysis. I honestly didn't even know what I was doing, but somehow did it correctly. I've suffered through this problem many times and even got help from Lucid Dream Portal (Daniel Love) and that's been really helpful. He has at least 4 decades of experience with lucid dreaming, so that's another channel I would recommend if you don't watch already. He has a more recent WILD tutorial that might be really helpful! Let me know if you have any more questions about this! I'm still not entering lucid dreams properly and suffered the same problems, so let's fight this together!
I should probably also mention it happened so much I even got to the point where I forgot that it can lead to a lucid dream, even though I had done it years prior before I started running into this issue! I got to where I forgot how sleep paralysis and lucid dreaming correlate and I'm sure that's another reason I fail to maintain awareness these days. Even though I remember now, I forget as it's happening, so make sure to remember that during the experience (after it's started and you can think clearly without worrying about waking up; prioritize not waking up first or just happen to do this and not waking up correctly).
@@zinsy23 thanks for the tips, I appreciate it!! 😁
I'll also check out the WILD video you mentioned and see if that helps. If I think of anything else that I have questions with I'll try to let you know as well!
@@Jaybiiird Sounds good! Remember you might fight some expectations you currently have and more than anything, to keep things simple! It can be done while not conscious and that's the simplest it can be! You got this!
@@Jaybiiird I was just curious how you're coming along with this issue?
I've only successfully WILDed twice in my life. The first was a few years ago. That was an unexpected one. I woke up in the night and was trying to go to sleep and suddenly there was a bright flash and I appeared at the top my my stairs. A few days ago I could have done a DEILD but I wanted to write the dream because it was cool. This morning I woke up in the night and I was drifting back to sleep and I heard a voice which I guessed was one of my cousins teaching me how to WILD. She said to imagine our grandpa's house and so I did. Nothing was happening. So she said, now imagine the living room and kitchen area. So I did but it was just silhoettes and outlines like you see when you imagine in your mind. She then said to look up at a light fixture, and I looked up and actually saw a light fixture that was in the kitchen area. I reached up and saw my dream arm and hand reach up and touch it. Then I was kind of in the dream and took a few steps. It was dim in the place and i yelled for it to have more clarity and I looked up to a light and it got brighter and hurt my eyes a little and I took another step and then I woke up.
The problem with WILD is that i either just fall asleep, or i end up just opening my eyes because i tried for a period off time and could not fall asleep. What should i do to fix this? How many attempts does it take to become lucid with a WILD technique?
Sometimes when I dream I'm awake enough to realise its a dream, its a weird thing that happens because sometimes I can control myself as dream character and move about and do as I wish, this is usually after I've woken up for a min after being asleep then sleeping again which restarts the dream
Can you do a video on more lucid dreaming technique/method misconception? I don’t know how many times I’ve given up on WILD because I couldn’t lay completely still like the tutorials tell me to
Can I try it without waking up 6 hours later, just trying WILD when I am falling asleep, I know if I put an alarm I will either sleep walk and closing the alarm or I will wake up and won't be able to go to sleep again. How less effective would be then?
While it is possible to WILD at the beginning of the night, it is an advanced technique for a few reasons. 1, you haven't yet figured out what anchor will work for you and how to balance sleep and awareness. 2, you have to retain awareness through N1, N2, and N3 sleep or until you get a NREM dream if you notice one. 3, Depending on how you attempt this, you could either just fail outright or unnecessarily keep yourself awake for an extended period of time.
Think about it this way. With 0 training, can you run a marathan? Sure, possibly, depending on your stamina and level of fitness, but will you do a good job? Probably not. Same with trying to WILD at the beginning of the night. WBTB makes it just that much easier.
@@SkyfallBlindDreamer when you feel like there is a pressure on your belly button area, does that mean you fell asleep? because i have stayed for about an hour on that state and i haven't gotten lucid (it was in the start of the night, so i expected it, but still.) how long do you think it takes to get into a lucid dream from the start of the night?
Doesn't sound like it per say. If you're trying WILD at the beginning of the night, it could be a while. You could get lucid in a stage N1 dream, or you could have to maintain that awareness through your first sleep cycle, including N3, until you hit REM sleep. We do dream in non-REM sleep stages, though these dreams tend to be less vivid and harder to remember on a general level. How long does it typically take you to fall asleep at the beginning of the night? If you're doing this for over an hour, you're likely doing it for too long and you're likely too aware as well. Passive awareness is what's sought after, which is more like noticing the anchor that you're using rather than focusing on it. Also, WILD doesn't require any specific sleeping position or laying completely still.
@@SkyfallBlindDreamer i ussualy take around 15-20 minutes to fall asleep, and i don't think i'm focusing too much, i always let my mind wander for the majority of the time i'm trying wild in the beggining of the night, just in case i'm being too aware.
and i have a question, i tried to do wild with wbtb and i always get too tired and give up, do you think i should wake myself up a little bit, or do you think i should ignore the tiredness and try to do it anyway?
@@isaquedopao6667 If you'd normally take 20 minutes to fall asleep, yet you find yourself trying WILD for over an hour, that's a pretty solid indication of being too aware. During WBTB, if you think you are too tired, you can wake yourself up a bit. Just keep in mind that your goal is to find that balance of awareness between staying awake and falling asleep unconsciously, in order to be aware of the transition to sleep without keeping yourself awake.
This Video is a 10/10
This video was so helpful for me. I used to focus so much on staying still during WILD that I couldn't actually relax enough to fall asleep. This method worked first time!
Last night was really strange, I knew what lucid dreaming was about a year ago and I didn’t do much last week I started back into it and I’ve remembered a dream every night since… I didn’t do that beforehand… yet I don’t find myself even realizing I’m in a dream until I wake up… not to mention that they are really blurry
Sounds like you're getting good minimal recall. Aside from dream journaling, do you do anything else to help you recall your dreams?
Can’t wait to try this tonight!
Let me know how it goes. Hopefully it goes right
How did it go
@@Ben-wf8rl I fell asleep 😭
The experiences ive had with this technique kimda made me realise why people think they are reality shifting
I think I almost had a sild by accident actually last night. I set this app to play a sound throughout the night to tell me I was dreaming and I think it happened while I wasn't dreaming and I realized it but then I didn't go into a lucid dream sadly
Can u have a dream about having a lucid dream with out going lucid or did I go lucid
Bro?
I think so.
Because I've had many instances , where I felt very tired in a dream. Laid down and fell asleep / rather woke up again , in another dream .
But this time , sort of half lucidly musing that it was a dream . Still, I continued to behave more like a dream character . Than take full advantage , of the situation.
I've also had normal lucid dreams of course . Where I've known completely , that I'm lucid .
But unfortunately, I continue to have more sporadic cases , of the first type .. Rather than the second .
So I'm open to advice , as well!!
@@larrymiller3849 what technique are you using? I need to switch mine up
@@pissboyporter46
It's mostly a combination tech. Usually a mantra like , " I will realize I am dreaming tonight ". Paired with visualizing a dream scene . Or else , simply going with the flow of hypnogogic imagery , etc.
And I usually wait a few hours after sleeping , before attempting .
However, I've only achieved one real Wild in my life. Not counting the spontaneous Deilds , I could do as a child . But can very seldom , achieve anymore .
Most of the lucida I have had , over past twenty years or so. Have been Dilds. Or border line Wilds , where I had lapses in consciousness . But eventually, felt like I awoke within the dream , soon after it started .
Wish I could be more helpful; but I'm still striving to have more consistent LDS , as well.
@@larrymiller3849 thanks
My issue is, when i feel sleep paralysis, i cant take deep breaths, my lungs just start feeling stuck when i deep breather to get more air, so its really uncomfortable to not feel a bit anxious, and when i try to not breathe as much it feels like i aint getting enough air
I think this guy has a video on how to enter a dream without sleep paralysis
@@zainabfarhan5823 ik iev tried
Have you had a waking dream eyes are open projective image then you continue about your day?
I really want to try this and have wanted to lucid dream for ages but I'm terrified of sleep paralysis even though I've never had it. Actually terrified that I cant bring myself to try this anymore.
Kool kool but how does one have a whet dream
Your profile picture matches your comment and I'm losing it 😭✨
Every time i doze of in those scenes in my head, every time I realize it they just dissaper, there is no way of me focusing on them
It's been a year. I still have no progress
Your video is great but one mistake you made it is called wake intitied lucid dream not wake induced but great video
Initiated, but I make a ton of spelling mistakes as well. Being blind and my screen reader pronouncing words correctly when they're not spelled right will do that. :)
My biggest problem in lucid dreams is that I find dream characters a bit horrifying so my subconscious let's them be as creepy as I expect them to be. It's just the thought that I see these people in front of me and I can feel them but they are not real and could start to do some random shit like following me
Try meditating so you can actually have more control on these thoughts.
@@wayd-art5655 Thanks, I'm currently working on it :)
I've got so close to pulling off WILD a few times. Usually I fall asleep too fast and have a DILD in a dream bedroom instead. I've reached the "buzzing" stage and had mild auditory hallucinations. I think I just need to commit to the process and not back out or anything.
What was your first successful LD technique?
Can someone tell me why my Dreams are often more vivid when my sleep is shorter than longer sleep???
I think the brain has more rem with less sleep, because rem is more important, and when dreams occur. But I'm not sure
Less to remember than longer sleep maybe
Longer sleep allows the mind and body to relax more, thus you are groggy when you wake up and prone to forgetting. Shorter sleep is usually interrupted by an alarm which cuts right through the middle of a dream allowing a rather vivid recollection.
Can I do wild after waking up naturally? I normally wake up a few times during the night and I don’t like alarms
I think it depends on when do you wake up, if it's an hour or two after falling asleep, I don't think it's gonna work. If 5-6 hours, then it should do it. Correct me if I'm wrong, I barely know myself
Roughly every ~90 minutes of sleep you'll enter an REM period, so it depends when you wake up as Daniel said. You can always try it any time you wake up from sleep though - and if you wake up from a dream, even better, as 1) that means you're almost certainly in REM, and 2) you can do DEILD instead, which works quicker/better in my experience! :)
@@Tipharot thank you! Would have never gotten my first LD without your vids
@@Termenz1 thank you :)
Natural wakings? That's awesome! You're a step ahead of everyone else with that. I do MILD and WILD with natural wakings all the time and highly recommend it.
The fact that I've been unintentionally doing this all my life, and I've wanted to lucid dream for years now. And I'm already this close? I guess now I can try really hard in the one step I'm missing :D
Yes. I have been waiting for an updated WILD for a long time now, and I was so chuffed when I saw that it was the most voted in the poll. Thank you so much!