WILDs are hard as fuck, you just get sweaty and uncomfortable after a while. Its the fact you can't even move, it wouldn't be a problem if it worked. It's not the hype that is steering me away, I can chill for 30-min to even 1 hour without being too excited/worried. Afternoons or middle of the nights, its just couldn't work.
I'd go for deild, but I don't know how to have an alarm go off and stop on it's own so I don't have to get up. My best shot is wbtb....but I was hoping anybody here could have tips/suggestions?
[QUOTE=Shostakovich;32120546]Oh, and I just remembered: Does anyone's projections (or dream "NPCs") acknowledge the fact that they don't exist? Mine always do. It's rather unsettling and strange.[/QUOTE]
Would you rather them think they did exist? :v:
[QUOTE=Map in a box;32121974]Would you rather them think they did exist? :v:[/QUOTE]
Actually, now after this past night's nightmare, I'd rather that they not think for themselves and continue acknowledging that they don't exist. I was getting close to lucidity but they detoured and caused a shitstorm that I couldn't control.
Going to get back into lucid dreaming, I was an occasional natural LDer as a kid, didn't even know it had a name back then. It became really rare from when I was probably about 10 to about 14 and forgot about it until i discovered it on Facepunch. I tried quite a few methods and had some success. After a while i stopped trying, and for the past four years without trying i still get them on average of about once a month. I might be able to get them quite commonly if I put some effort into getting them.
[editline]5th September 2011[/editline]
Any good ideas/tips to get back into the flow of trying to LD?
Just reading about and remembering old LDs is bringing back that excited feeling that is very motivating.
I've been trying Lucid dreaming on and off for a while now, sort of like trying, but not that hard. I've been keeping a dream journal and it's been working quite well, as long as I remember my dreams. I've been trying WILD every now and then and so far I haven't gotten any good results, until last night. I think I entered the hypnagogic state twice, but always sort of "missed" it. I'd describe it as going numb all over as in not having any feeling in any limb at all. Then there comes this sort of pulling sensation in the back of my head, but when that came I didn't have any of that imagery the OP described. Then the feeling passed since I didn't want to move in case I'd just break the state and have to start all over again. Does this sound right at all and if it does, what should I do next time?
This morning was weird, I woke up and I was almost convinced I was still dreaming, it felt so weird.
I did a few reality checks and I definitely wasn't dreaming, and later I woke up more and it felt more normal.
Can you swallow or clear your throat while trying to do SP or will that fuck it up?
I was trying the WILD technique and was all relaxed and about an hour in when this image of something that looked like a scream mask with inverted colours flashed in front of my eyes and I nearly fell off the bed.
Is this normal?
[editline]6th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=rivershark;32133560]Can you swallow or clear your throat while trying to do SP or will that fuck it up?[/QUOTE]
This has been bugging me too.
[QUOTE=rivershark;32133560]Can you swallow or clear your throat while trying to do SP or will that fuck it up?[/QUOTE]
Just be comfortable bro. It's basically just sleeping except paying attention.
I'm doing a personal Tea project, that is drinking tea before I sleep every night for a month.
But I'm still having problem whether to drink Chamomile or Green Tea.
This is day 3, drinking Green Tea. I drank chamomile on day 1 and 2.
Had the first vivid dream on day 2.
I like lemon tea the best.
[QUOTE=CyrusTehSage;32140708]scream mask with inverted colours flashed in front of my eyes[/QUOTE]
That's normal, you just have to get past it. You were very close.
It's been too long.
I've never had a successful WILD, going to try tonight, am quite drowsy.
[QUOTE=Eonart;32146484]How effective is C-WILD?[/QUOTE]
C-WILD doesn't ring a bell, unless you mean that ridiculous caffeine trick that guy posted on DreamViews.
It's interesting in theory but the application's risky, at best. The idea behind it is that it keeps your mind awake but makes your body tired. Which would work except (for me, at least) caffeine makes my body hyper, not just my brain. Hence leg jitters, talking fast, moving around, blah blah blah.
If you're going to WILD, I still suggest trying to wake your brain up via mental stimulation instead of physical stimulation. Do complex math problems, write a story, do something mentally challenging but not physically challenging.
...you know, I've never thought of doing this, but you might try waking up, writing a couple paragraphs (in detail, because you need your brain to be awake) about what you want to dream about, and then go back to bed. Your brain will be awake and theoretically dwelling about what you just wrote down, and then when you start to dream it should, in theory, be about whatever you wrote down.
Granted, this isn't necessarily useful considering you'd be lucid and therefore could alter the dream any way you wanted, but having a guideline helps and it'd be a good way to wake your brain up. Someone test this for me.
[editline]6th September 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=CyrusTehSage;32140708]I was trying the WILD technique and was all relaxed and about an hour in when this image of something that looked like a scream mask with inverted colours flashed in front of my eyes and I nearly fell off the bed.
Is this normal?
[editline]6th September 2011[/editline]
This has been bugging me too.[/QUOTE]
Also, you were super close. That's a visual hallucination, usually it happens around the same time you get auditory hallucinations to. It's like your brain doing a mental checklist that everything's working before it shuts down for sleep.
Never ever induced a wild. Never had any symptoms of it, either. why am i so unlucky
man, anesthesia is so cool.
i had to get a colonocopy and they gave me some and i had the coolest dreams.
theres no way i would get lucid with that though
I'm going to try tea, and a banana.
Looks like Green tea failed.
Night 3:- I had no dream at all, maybe I just didn't remember it. Flashbacks from the dream in Night 2 appears in my head from time to time.
I just stocked up a month worth of camomile tea.
[QUOTE=Rapist;32151485]It's been too long.
I've never had a successful WILD, going to try tonight, am quite drowsy.[/QUOTE]
Well, that didn't go well.
I fell asleep, hah, didn't stay aware.
It's nice to think of it just going to sleep while concious, i can get in the most comfy pose and just try to fall asleep while aware. I'm going to end up trying it every night.
Well i think i had my FIRST ever *lucid* dream.
It was very short too.
I guess i was playing the game Phun? *yes i know*
And i said to my self.
This is just a dream.
And i started to feel weird it got all blurry.
And then i woke up
I had a dream where electronics worked very well. I recorded something on a camera and it replayed it while everything else in the background was still moving. And I could rewatch things I recorded within that dream. I recorded like 3 videos, to bad I can't remember what they were exactly.
I just tried doing WILD, but I guess I messed up because my brain just started to loose interest.
Had a dream about a game called Extremis which was exactly like Borderlands (right down to the characters) only the villain was an alternate universe version of Brick who controlled a massive stockpile of liquid tea that restored his health and you could drink it too.
Which was immediately followed up by a dream which was the ad to the sequel, Manismo. Apparently it was so manly that you had to kill yourself at the right time by ramming your fist up your anus.
I have got to cut back on... [I]whatever it is[/I].
Turns out my dad lucid dreams too! He recommends eating things like B6/sunflower seeds(they have b6 in them)
Ah, it's always cool to see that even if people aren't getting lucid dreams, they're getting dreams of personal significance...
Well, except for Manismo... I'm really hoping that's just something your mind pulled out of its ass.
Edit: ...metaphorically speaking.
[QUOTE=Eonart;32160915]It was in the OP of the Lucid Dreaming thread in GD. Basically stay still and count to 100 mentally, then do RC and if you aren't dreaming, you start over but with another 20 added and if it fails add 20 again and keep doing that until you're dreaming.
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So pretty much what I normally do for WILD.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;32154826]
...you know, I've never thought of doing this, but you might try waking up, writing a couple paragraphs (in detail, because you need your brain to be awake) about what you want to dream about, and then go back to bed. Your brain will be awake and theoretically dwelling about what you just wrote down, and then when you start to dream it should, in theory, be about whatever you wrote down.
Granted, this isn't necessarily useful considering you'd be lucid and therefore could alter the dream any way you wanted, but having a guideline helps and it'd be a good way to wake your brain up. Someone test this for me.
[/QUOTE]
Wonderful
I am currently literally writing a 3 page essay on the scariest moment in my life to date.
fun dreams tonight.
[QUOTE=Birdman101;32175645]So pretty much what I normally do for WILD.
Wonderful
I am currently literally writing a 3 page essay on the scariest moment in my life to date.
fun dreams tonight.[/QUOTE]
...And nothing happened. I don't remember anything.
Well fuck me, I took a nap today and for once I went lucid without instantly waking up. However, the reason why I went lucid was because I heard water boiling and didn't see a kettle on the stove. Therefore I decided the sound must be coming from otside the dream, even though I was the only one home and definitely weren't boiling any water. I thought I was in immediate danger IRL and forcibly woke up and too late did I notice what I'd done. :v:
Didn't get lucid last night, but I did have a couple of dreams I was able to (partially) recall. I'm really excited because I haven't been able to recall anything since around August 15th.
First dream:
I was in a GTA style dream, complete with third person perspective. I remember something about invading a dam(?). I think that having played GTA: SA and watching (anybody who is familiar with the Minecraft mod "AdventureCraft" will know who Cryect is, he uploaded a new map recently) "The Dam trailer" earlier that night.
Second dream:
I was watching like a CCTV cam in a gas station type thing, and some guy walks up to the cashier and asks if he could sell something [either to him or in the store](?), and the cashier says no [I guess] so the guy runs around the store screaming in the most hilarious way you can imagine. Eventually he stops and starts talking to the cashier again, and some other guy comes in holding a pack of cigarettes(?) to like, sell them back or something. Another guy walks in, behind the other two guys, pulls out some pistol, says "Robbery!" and shoots like 19274913754 bullets at the other people. He then casually takes the money from the cash register, and I wake up. I think this dream was caused by falling asleep watching "The Top 20 Most Shocking", which shows 20 (durr) videos per episode, each with a different theme, i.e. 'daredevil stunts', robberies (like the episode I was watching), etc.
Last night's dream was fairly interesting:
I was in an office on a high floor of a skyscraper in Boston. I could see quite clearly various major buildings in the skyline. There were various people doing their jobs at their desks. The interesting part is that none of them noticed me. I could tap their foreheads, yell at them, move papers around. They didn't even look up. I got the familiar feeling that something wasn't quite right. Bingo. "I must be dreaming."
I looked at my hand, and imagined focusing all of my energy on the palm of my hand. After a second or so, my hand got very warm and in an instant every piece of glass in the entire building shattered. Glass rained down from outside of the building and there was a great deal of loud crashing noises.
Then, a beam of blue light shot out in front of my hand and set fire to a printer on the far side of the room. I felt a sense of euphoria and success. I don't remember much else. I believe that the cops were called but I made myself invisible, and that (in dream) 2 days later I was flying across a street.
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