Has anyone got any more tips for a Succesful WILD?
I haven't succeeded, and the farthest I've gotten is feeling my hands and legs half numb, and number the lower they go.
Did feel quite interesting though, I felt that I had my legs crossed, even though I didn't.
Is anybody else experiencing sleep paralysis like this? I'm laying down, I eventually go into sleep paralysis with vibration noises and a sensation of floating, but my vision is a screen, of a random colored background with flashing images and such, nothing scary or that, but during the duration I lose my conscious thought and unable to perform WILD. Happened at least two times this morning. (I remembered a long dream though!)
[editline]21st December 2011[/editline]
I can also classify minecraft-like graphics or blockish world to be a dream sign... I'm having many dreams like that.
Um are you meant to see creepy things when you look in a mirror during lucid dreaming?
[QUOTE=Mikesword221;33821243]Um are you meant to see creepy things when you look in a mirror during lucid dreaming?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Orkel;33733087]Did a spontaneous reality check in a dream last night. But too bad it happened when I was brushing my teeth in front of a mirror. My image in the mirror turned abnormally large, the eyes became bright white and it started flashing in old fashioned black and white pretty fast, and then a scream became audible, louder and louder until I woke up in chills. Fucking mirrors.[/QUOTE]
Yes, it's very common.
[QUOTE=Orkel;33821309]Yes, it's very common.[/QUOTE]
So is it also normal to not see something creepy?
[QUOTE=Mikesword221;33821336]So is it also normal to not see something creepy?[/QUOTE]
I don't see why it wouldn't be normal, creepy stuff just happens to be more common than normal stuff.
Did you have an experience?
Had a DILD last night. Was having that recurring dream where I fall three stories into a crowded atrium. I realized then that it was a dream.
It lasted longer than usual, about thirty seconds, but I forgot that spinning or rubbing my hands together would help with that.
I think I got the hang of flying, though.
[QUOTE=Orkel;33821369]I don't see why it wouldn't be normal, creepy stuff just happens to be more common than normal stuff.
Did you have an experience?[/QUOTE]
Well, I had my first lucid in quite some time and I looked in a mirror like six times without even thinking about the scary stuff. I only realized my potentially scary mistake after I woke up. So yeah I guess I got lucky :v:.
Also, I was able to spawn things. It felt good. Especially because I was running from a Nightmare.
[QUOTE=Mikesword221;33821445]Well, I had my first lucid in quite some time and I looked in a mirror like six times without even thinking about the scary stuff. I only realized my potentially scary mistake after I woke up. So yeah I guess I got lucky :v:.
Also, I was able to spawn things. It felt good. Especially because I was running from a Nightmare.[/QUOTE]
Don't run from nightmares, give them hugs and sweet love by the fireside.
It'll turn into something nice.
Does anyone else have multiple dreams in one night. I swear when I wake up I can remember up to like 5 different dreams I had.
[QUOTE=teh_1337_r0XX0r;33785675]Okay, so in a totally at-random way for reasons I cannot explain, I came across a recipe for a homemade herbal tea for lucid dreaming. Which is to say vivid dreams, anyways. Here is the description:
...don't know if want[/QUOTE]
At least two of those are classified as minor hallucinogens. It won't make dreaming better, just more random. Plus it will taste like distilled lawn trimmings.
I've been working on lucid daydreams. I'm very close to being able to slip into brief moments of lucidity on a moment's notice, although I'm not sure if that will be very useful...
Was pretty close to a WILD without sleeping beforehand. After going to bed I laid on my back for quite some time until the symptoms of sleep paralysis started happening. My head suddenly felt light and it felt like pressure was building up, and my body became heavy. At that exact moment the hypnagogic shit started, and the face of a tiger appeared in my vision and rawred at me. It was cool, not scary. Waves of chills went through my body without feeling cold at all and I felt the vibrating/shaking from it, but eventually it wore off and I didn't get into a dream. Too bad. Must have paid too much attention to it, instead of ignoring and trying to sleep. But it's so rare for me to get into the state straight when going to bed, so it was hard not to think about it. 99% of the time it happens after a few hours of sleep.
[QUOTE=Zinayzen;33824874]At least two of those are classified as minor hallucinogens. It won't make dreaming better, just more random. Plus it will taste like distilled lawn trimmings.
I've been working on lucid daydreams. I'm very close to being able to slip into brief moments of lucidity on a moment's notice, although I'm not sure if that will be very useful...[/QUOTE]
I love lucid daydreams.
Less detailed, much more control.
[QUOTE=Rapist;33815236]Has anyone got any more tips for a Succesful WILD?
I haven't succeeded, and the farthest I've gotten is feeling my hands and legs half numb, and number the lower they go.
Did feel quite interesting though, I felt that I had my legs crossed, even though I didn't.[/QUOTE]
Anybody?
I've been having dreams lately about a heist. But that's not the focus of my dreams.
The first dream involved me (I felt younger, but not by very much, around 15), an old woman, two men, one burly and one thin (The type you would see paired up as gangsters in movies or what not) and a girl, about my age wearing a padded jacket-hoodie, All on a rooftop in a city outskirts, the colors were always cold in the dream, dont know why. I can't remember faces for the life of me though. The woman was the mastermind behind the heist and told us more people would be joining us, the dream ended with the girl complaining to the old woman, ending her sentnece with mom. She seemed not to care for anyone at all.
The second dream was a little different. We were in the back of a van escaping with the loot when the two extras grabbed it and dived out of the back, the rest of team didnt act surprised or angry at all.
Dream ended abruptly as it started, one thing I noted, the girl wasnt in the van with us.
The last dream was us coming back to the building of the original rooftop, the girl waiting for us, looking down. She just starts running across the rooftops away from the first one and the team just doesnt care as well. I turned around to see where she was going and the most peculiar thing happened. She waved goodbye to me. I waved back. The dream ended with me going up the stairs.
I woke up and was immediately struck with weird feelings. I kept thinking about the dream, thinking "She waved back."
I've never felt this kind of thing before. Being so attached to a dreamed concept, I didnt even see her face or hear her voice. Strangest thing of all I feel happy every time I think about it.
Has anyone experienced something like that?
I find that it's easier to at least attempt a lucid dream when I go to bed exhausted, after staying up late or whatever. It seems like it's easier to drift off into a dream. Don't know if it's just me or not, anyone else notice this?
Whenever I DILD, I always feel as if, well, it's not real. As if I'm playing a game at low resolution.
[quote=the OP which everyone should read]
It is easier to WILD if you're tired
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Woke up this morning, trying to remember any dreams i had. No success. I decided i would go back to sleep again. At first i weren't aware that i was dreaming, but when i and a buddy walked towards an elevator with misplaced doors, i started to get suspicious. We got in, and the elevator was falling so fast we got airborne inside. I wasn't scared, but i thought that "this isn't how elevators work." Started doing reality checks while falling and figured my tongue was clipping through my teeth and i was missing the index finger (at first. "the missing finger" moved over to the other fingers, so i missed my ring finger). I think i got too excited, so i knew this dream would be unstable. The elevator stopped, but we didn't get hurt. I was laying down and started to hold my hands and pretend to spin around. It didn't work :(
Woke up, tried a WILD as soon as i knew what was happening. If i weren't so thirsty or someone woke me up i would maybe come closer to a real lucid dream. All this was written in my newly-bought Dream Journal.
While i was writing this, i thought of Zelda, which reminded me of another dream i had this night. I was bying a Mario game for some reason, but since my brother already had it i bought a Zelda 3ds game instead (it wasn't ocarina of time, it was something unknown.) That dream was non-lucid though.
Last night in my dream I did two reality checks which worked like they were supposed to in real life (my fingers didn't go through my other hand, and pinching myself felt normal.) I need a new reality check.
Did a DILD tonight :D I was standing in front of my mirror thinking that something was strange, so why not do a reality check. So I did and I was very surprised when it worked.
Then I remembered that things often go scary in the mirror (this I have seen before ._.), but then I though that it didn't have so the only thing that happened was that my eyes started to glow like when you light a flashlight on a cat. And I thought that was rather normal compared to what I've seen in the mirror before.
Then I started thinking about what I would do now that I was lucid. But it seems that when I did, the lucidity started to fade. I did everything I remembered to keep it and it worked pretty well. I stayed lucid for a pretty long time, but it was very boring because I was in my house (it was supposed to be my house although I've never seen it before) and nothing happened. Every time I thought about making something happen, my lucidity started to fade so I had to focus very hard on keeping it thus I wasn't allowed to explore this dreamworld further. So yeah it was quite boring. I used telekinesis once the pick up something that wasn't withing reach after that I tried to levitate, but it didn't really work. I didn't want to jump because I knew that if I did, I would crash my head against the ceiling. After trying to levitate I just lost focus and woke up. And then I wrote down the dream.
Except I didn't because it was a false awakening that I should have noticed since the room was all wrong. What intrigues me is that I was so caught up in staying lucid that I didn't notice how weird the house I was in was. (please excuse the horrible writing. I just woke up and my mind is still kinda in the dream)
Had a WILD in the morning but it ended too soon.
[QUOTE=Mr._N;33842836]Last night in my dream I did two reality checks which worked like they were supposed to in real life (my fingers didn't go through my other hand, and pinching myself felt normal.) I need a new reality check.[/QUOTE]
Pinch off your nose and try to breath through it. It's really obvious if it fails.
Had a dream last night that went all over the place. It involved people that I remembered that never existed, government conspiracies, random carpet bombing, and failing at jogging.
I sadly cannot remember any faces of significant strangers that seem to be your long-friend that you've always known.
[QUOTE=Krinkels;33838561]It is easier to WILD if you're tired[/QUOTE]
Sorry, read it months ago.
I forget things occasionally.
I had a weird dream. I joined an Asian sex mafia. They were unimpressed by my abilities and inability to last longer than ten minutes. So they stuffed a tiny evergreen tree up my nose and told me that was the secret of being good at sex. Then I had sex with many hot Asians to test that theory.
Good times.
Had a great dream. It was quite complex. First of all I was at a party near a beach of some sort, I fell into the water and drowned. I ended up in the afterlife which was a giant underground city connected to other realms by the use of End Trails which were books that teleported you into the time and place you ever wanted. Basically they allowed you infinite knowledge, you could go anywhere anytime with those, [I]and[/I] do anything there.
I met up with the Elder, the oldest lady and the leader of the afterlife, kinda like god. We talked about how it all works, and she said that when you die, you end up in the city of Death, and when you die there, you could either choose to end up being reborn in the world of the living or stay in Death, and this cycle was one of the fundamental laws of the universe.
There were also machines which counted your amount of deaths, there was one person who had five if I recall right. At one point, I was in a car with three others and the driver decided to crash into a tree in full speed, to test the theory of not being able to die when dead.
The city's power station went offline, causing a mass panic because it resulted in an impending flood. People were running the hell out of the power district, shouting to get the fuck out of there. But nothing big happened afterwards regarding the power.
But then, a virus struck the city, it made people jump in front of moving trains. All the residents moved into helicopters and evacuated the city, I didn't bother and stayed behind. The city was completely abandoned now.
Suddenly from the portals from which dead people arrived into the afterlife popped out an Ugandan black dude who just had died. I tried explaining to him what had happened and where he was, using a translator machine, but it was hard and eventually he just ran like fuck and jumped into one of the End Trails and told me not to follow him. I didn't.
Instead I picked up one which led to the fall of Berlin in WW2, and jumped in. I met Hitler, and gave him orders to build a giant tank similar to the Maus, and when it was finished, I jumped in and went to the Reichstag and bombarded the Russians who were putting a flag on top of the building (the iconic photo you all know)
I had a pretty awesome dream last night. It was during the First Contact War, but the Systems Alliance were beating the hell out of the turian forces, and they had much more advanced technology then the turians did. Then the SA retook Shanxi, and conquered all the turian planets, including Palaven. Then the Citadel Council shows up and we agree peace terms with the turians.
Oh maaaaaaaaaaaaan
Super awesome long complex lucid last night.
I was sleeping in an uncomfortable chair in a hotel room with a heater that cycles ever 3 minutes. It kept half-waking me up and making me realize I was asleep. It was also probably the most vivid lucid I've ever had. I kept having false awakenings in the chair and I was browsing FP. It was extremely vivid and just like real life, so it took me a while to realize the heater stopped cycling, so I was dreaming. From there, I would teleport to another dream, and sometimes be lucid, sometimes not.
The coolest thing I did was when I was in a hallway in the hotel. I walked down the hall way and stopped. The lights flickered. Something felt wrong. I raised my hand and focused on making a fireball to see if I was dreaming (RC's never work in my dreams). It worked. I transformed into my more powerful form and jumped out the window and flew over the city. That's all I remember.
I'm jelaous of your recall, guys.
I'm trying to improve mine, it's helping a bit, and now that the semester is over, I can spend 2 weeks on dreaming/trying to WILD too.
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