WILD VILD - Or in other words "The elevator technique"

Most of chances, I assume, that you already tried the WILD technique and realized that "Hell, this is pretty hard stuff. You probably fell asleep once or twice, didn't manage to pass over that numb sleep-paralysis or it just took a lot of time and no result (But was there no result? did you check?). Well, this "Elevator technique" is a helpful technique for us who love to visualize, day dream or have troubles concentrating on clock ticking / heart beating / sheep counting (only).

Basically, you just go over the same steps of the WILD at first but I will COPY-PASTE them for the lazy ones. (No offense).

Before we get started we need to prepare our body to this experience. You will need a good sleep of 4.5/6 hours. It depends if you are totaly tired before your sleep or you are in your "regular tiredness". Set your alarm clock to wake you whenever you think is correct for your body to have a nice regeneration period.

Note that, dreams begin to appear, normaly, after the third cycle (a cycle of sleep is 90-100 minutes in length).

Beep! The clock wakes you up and now it is the hard part after a good 4.5 hours sleep - Get up! Do not remain in the bed because you will fall asleep. Do the usual ritual of the dream diary and get up from that comfy bed of yours. Wash you face, walk or even better - Read about lucid dreams.

Note to self - Being in the mood/state of mind that you are about to enter the LD will rise your chances to actualy acheive it. Reading about LD will get you some motivation to stay awake for 15-30 minutes. Actualy, there is no precise time. Each of us has his biological clock working and ticking but statisticaly speaking and from my experience, 15 minutes is ok, 30 minutes is good.

Now get back to bad jack!

1. Step one - relaxation There are tons of ways to do a good relaxation. If you already have it, just do it good and skip this step. If you don't know any good way to relax, you can follow this simple step. It's important to lay comfortably and just enjoy the feeling of relaxing. Phase one - Breathing. Inhale and Exhale slowly but not too slow and imagine the path that the air does from the space of your room, into your nose, through the lungs and into your body; And when you exhale - from your lungs to your mouth/nose and back to the room. Try to focus all your thought into it and when you exhale you feel your muscles resting and relaxing. Say it to your self "I am relaxed.... My muscles are relaxed" or when you exhale you can say the term "Relaxation" on each exhale. Phase two - Heart-beat. Continue Phase one until you can feel your heart beat very good and you have a slow heart beat. As soon as you hear your heart-beat, move your concentration to the heart-beat. Try to "listen" to it and understand it's pace. try to relax some more and make it move slower and easier. Don't neglect the part you are saying to yourself "Relaxation" on each exhale if you began that. When you feel that you can "predict" your heart-beat and it is slow and relaxed, continue to the next Phase. Phase three - Relaxing the muscles. Continue the listening to your heart-beat but move your concentration to your muscles. It is time to move your concentration from your upper muscles - the neck , the shoulders and chest down until you reach your lower muscles in your feet. Move that concentration slowly focusing on each muscle for a couple of moments and going on until you reach your feet. When you reach your feet, if you feel relaxed, move on to the next Step of the WILD. If you don't feel relaxed you can do this Phase again but only once again because after that you can fall asleep pretty deep.


2. Here comes the difference! - Now its visualization and concentration time. Visualize yourself infront of an elevator. It is imperitive to try to "see" all the elevators details. You are walking into the elevator and entering it. You watch the panel and the screens. the screen says "1000" and there are buttons going down and down and down when the last button is "LUCID DREAM". Push it. The elevator begins to go down now.
   Feel all the movement of the elevator shaking abit. As the elevator going down the numbers on the screens are counting down from 1000. Visualize it and as the numbers go down you are falling more and more asleep (Your body that is). As in WILD you will start to confuse the numbers but it will come earlier. Do the same drill but with one more addition - concentrate more on the elevator. visualize all the space of the elevator and the lights of each floor going up while the elevator is going down.


3. You will feel the same things in this stage as in WILD and VILD and finally you will be able to enter the lucid dream. My elevator technique is ending when in some floor the elevator gets loose and falling down when in the LD floor it brakes and I appear in the dream.

Try the technique and tell me how it was!

Pre-Invented / Mantra

On today's topic we are going to cover a nice technique to insert some features to the LD with ease and without too many concentration/visualization but with some preperation.

This technique was used by me to write a nice story (and to experience it while writing) and also was used by me for my little "experiments".

Anyhow, lets get started and as usual I am going to post the technique in basic steps:

1. Plan - Invent whatever it is you want to invent such as a special place , a special object, a special DC (Dream Character) or all together.
   Impotant note - The more you describe it and write/draw/design it, the easier it will be to conjure it in the middle of a LD.
   I use to write about it, draw it and if I can 3d design it.


2. Self-suggest and mantra - Before you go to sleep, you must read about it and look at the designs/drawings you made of it. After you are done and before you are falling to deep sleep, you also need to self-suggest "I am going to sleep , I will dream and I will create .... in the dream" go over this suggestion over and over and over again (just like any self-suggestion) and fall to sleep with it.


3. Conjuring - Wham! You are lucid, what next? Ok, now you can use ANY technique of creating in the LD (I suggest the in-direct self-suggesting which works almost everytime for me) and conjure the object.

Why do I need to do all of this, can't I just create it?
Well, theoretically, You can. But this makes it alot easier to create because you don't have to visualize nothing, you already "saw" that object. You felt the object in the RL and you know exactly what it looks/feels/talks/etc like. So if you want to try and create some very complex being from scratch, do tell me how do you do it because I could never achieve that until I thought about this nice idea (Though I am sure someone already thought about it before me).

But what if I won't be lucid that night?
Then first, bummer but it is not important because your mantra is continuing still. We don't have lucid dreams each night, unfortunatly.

What are the uses of this technique?
One of my uses is the writing from lucid dream. I have written a story with the help of conjuring it in the lucid dream over and over again.
Also I use this technique to return to my pre-invented spaceship which is also my Dream Guide (A voice activated computer) this is a technique a good Dream Character told me to use in order to overcome the Text problem in my dreams (unstable text).

Lucid farm

In the next three weeks we will fight our way to create our first lucid dream with the help of the basic technique (at the begining) and using MILD and WILD at the end of the 3 weeks.
You will be able to conduct the LD after or in the middle of those 3 weeks.

You will need to do the following before you decide to sign up:

• Already have or Create a Dream Journal.
• Have 5-10 minutes in the morning to write your dreams
• Have 5-10 seconds in the middle of the day to do RC.
• Have 5-10 minutes at the end of the day to write, read and surf the blog.
  
• A pack of huge good will and motivation to actually start lucid dreaming regulary.

If you think you want to enter the world of lucid dreaming and to control your dreams or just to enjoy them more than you do now, Sign up by e-mailing me - forcedefense@gmail.com.

Current people already signed up:

Myself.
Kevin.

Transformation

One of the interesting things to achieve in the LD is transformation.
It is not an easy thing to achieve and it needs you to do an advanced technique to induce lucidness (WILD VILD WBTB MILD) to achieve more lucidity.

Basicaly, the technique is to imagine how will it feel to be a specific thing you want to be and to concentrate on those feelings when you make yourself to change into it.
This concept can be eased with the help of your power gaining props.
For example, when I want to transform in the LD i usualy use my own orb of power and imagine that I am a powerful mage that can turn himself to his power animal - Eagle. I then start to make a hze around me as the magic gets stronger and I imagine the feeling of my arms extending and becoming wings instead. I imagine and concentrate on my legs shortening and becoming the eagle's legs. I then complete the transform and just test myself by flying.

Yes, my first attempts (I don't really remember how many) were a complete failure or a wake-up because of the excitement. But, after a couple of tests and when I became used to this feeling I actually managed to fly a bit and not to wake-up from the thrill.

What I just posted was only one technique that I personaly use and love to do transformation. There are alot of techniques to do so such as - drink a potion that turns you into the thing, go through some sort of a portal such as a mirror and turn directly into the animal, call the animal to be next to you and take control of it by changing your POV (Point Of View) etc...

So, I described the technique to turn into an eagle easily. You are free to comment and post other transformation you did/do.

I will post some more transformation techniques later, but now its time to dream.

Till next time.

False awakening

Everyone remember the movie "waking life" right?

Well, if not, I am not going to tell you how it ends or what's in the middle. Just go ahead and tap that link over there and watch it on youtube on low quality.

False awakening is actually what it is - You think you woke up from the dream because you do remember dreaming but you actually dreaming that you woke-up from a dream. What? No you can't stay "stuck" in a dream because of a nice mechanism called andrenalyn that runs through your veins when you get all scared from the idea that you will never wake up. Remember that the andrenalyn actually waking you up.

Here is the idea - false awakening accurs some times in your dreams and since you don't, yet, remember your dreams so good you can count on me with that. True, I don't have that much dreams when I am false awakening but they do accure. That is the important part. Why? Because you can use that to have a lucid dream in every time it accurs. How? as simple as doing RC every time you wake up.

My routine is waking up, writing in my journal while checking if I am not dreaming with the help of my digital clock (on my cell) and my journal (reading check) then with the light-switch (Turn it on and see if something happens). Yes, Three RC in just the begining of the day for that 5% or maybe less false awakenings that I have. But hey, anything to get me more lucid hours. It takes away 10-20 seconds of my waking life but it gives me something like 5-10 minutes of LD in the dream life.

Always remember that you are not putting that much of an investment to this whole lucid dreaming thing. All you do is write 5 minutes in the morning and read 5 minutes in the night and RC in the middle of the day for lets say... 1 more minute total. How much is it? 11 minutes in one day. That's it!

For what reason do you do that? Not to lose 1/4 of your life. To achieve better understanding of yourself. To explore new worlds. To invent. To live another life.

Don't miss out on that life.

Well, back to our topic. Let's just conclude it, I will add another personal experience and I will head to dream land before work.

False awakening is a very normal experience that happens here and there.

You can exploit this phenomenon to your own sake by RC each morning you wake up.

You cannot be "stuck in the dream" because of your own chemical structure.

For my personal, not so nice, experience.

First, I was already a nice lucid dreamer when this happened. I did not use my waking up as a tool for RC and maybe that was the reason that all of that happened. It is a regular dream that became DILD (I will mention when exactly).

I woke up. I shut the clock not even peeking to that direction (odd?). I rose almost immediatly and put my clothes on. It was another school day at the 12th grade and I was late so I couldn't write my dreams today (Very odd?). I took my bag and went out of the house. I didn't notice it until later but no one was in the house (A conclusion from the fact that I didn't remember a thing about it) (By the way, Even more Odd?). I ran to the school that was next to my house and entered the class. I don't really remember what happened but finally we got some scores from the latest test and I failed! (Extremely odd!) That felt shameful and bad, I must add. I felt down all the time in school but the time passed very quickly when I got out for the brake, some kid asked me for the time so I looked at my cellphone finding that I didn't know the time. The cellphone was not working (Bingo!). I rise my head to the clock in the school and it didn't move too so I looked at the kid and sayd "Well, I don't know. It's not working" (Slap my face, what a shame I didn't realize back then, eh?).

//comment - The kid was a gift to tell me "you are dreaming pall don't worry" its like the brain telling me that the test flunking was all but a little joke of his but I didn't get it eh? think about it\\

Anyhow, I got out of the school but suddenly I felt a litle cold. I looked at myself (Hard achievement in a dream) and saw that I had no clothes on!

Then, and only then, It struck me: What the? I wore them at the morning, I remember! Oh! Its a dream!

And.... guess what? I woke up by the annoying clock. Again I closed the clock not even looking at it but then I told to myself "Hmmm... a dejavu" so I looked at the clock. Can you guess again?

The clock was not there. "What?" I thought to myself "But what rang?" I got up and looked around realizing that I am still dreaming telling to myself "But something is ringing" so I had to do the "open my eyes" game (To wake-up) and I managed to do that after the 2nd try.

My clock was truly ringing.

Gaining control

Before I continue with some more nice things you can do in the lucid dreams, I want to point out a very important note.

I am not posting articles here in the same speed you should follow in your way to your first lucid dream. Meaning, in this stage after one week, you should remember at least one dream a night.

Don't rush. You got all the time you need for it so don't push it too much. Just continue doing your RC, dream diary writing and when you have time for it, try for a MILD.

Ok, after we are clear with that one, lets get back to gaining some more control in the lucid dream.

In this section, I will point out only one method to gain control - The method I am using.

In order to use this method you must already know how to create things in the LD by self-suggest in-directly or just make it happen directly.

Well, first of all just create a power symbol. It can be anything you want a trinket, an amulet , an orb , your wife/husband etc...

Observe that power symbol.

Imagine that this power symbol upholds a strange power inside of it and whoever touches it can use that power simply with his thought.

Now, touch that power, imagine and feel the power flowing through you and tingling your body ready to explode out in your command.

Tunnel the power to your hands and to the tip of your fingers and now aim the power to it's destination, your destination "Gain more control / Lucidity".

You can use power words such as yelling at the power symbol "give me power/control" or such.

I actually prefer aiming the power straight to where I need it (for ex. if I want to create something, I aim it to the location and concentrate the power that creates what I want).

History

This method to increase lucidity I actually found out by accident. I was lucid dreaming inside LineAge2 (A created world from a game) and I tried to do some "magic fireballs" in the LD against another mage. I created a power sphere that I held in my right hand and I concentrated on the "energy" that came from it and created the fireballs from that energy. Then I realized that I was creating the fireball from scratch and it was not in-direct. I stopped the firing for one moment and the other mage disappeared or gone in other words. I then tried to fly in the matrix method with the help of the power sphere and I succeed. That was one of the most powerfull things I ever reached - Simply fly with no strings attached!

That actually felt great. I woke-up and wrote a nice 3 pages lucid dream that I had and after that I wrote some more about that technique I just sporadicaly used in that LD. It was a nice night scribing.

But why? how? Well, it is all in your mind. If you think "I can't do it, its too much for me" then you won't be able to do it. Most of the time in the lucid dream we are concentrated on other things rather than our own will so its easier to believe in an "outer" object (your power symbol) and to create that energy from that object. In this way you are actualy not the source of the power so you can't say "I can't do it" because you think you are not doing anything or that there is something that helping you out.

Thirsty for some more techniques or you got yours, share.

W.I.L.D

Wake Induced Lucid Dream.



Probably one of the hardest techniques to enter the state of lucid dream but one of the most interesting, exciting and powerful ways.

The WILD is basicaly going to sleep after your body rest, letting your body to fall asleep while you try to keep your mind conscious. This way you are entering the LD from scrap after loosing all your senses (Touch , smell , sight etc...) having the paralisys effect and having the HI effect. Do not be worried, this is perfectly safe and I will cover each step by step including what will you hear/see and my own personal experience while WILDing.



So, before we get started we need to prepare our body to this experience. You will need a good sleep of 4.5/6 hours. It depends if you are totaly tired before your sleep or you are in your "regular tiredness". Set your alarm clock to wake you whenever you think is correct for your body to have a nice regeneration period. Note that, dreams begin to appear, normaly, after the third cycle (a cycle of sleep is 90-100 minutes in length).



Beep! The clock wakes you up and now it is the hard part after a good 4.5 hours sleep - Get up!

Do not remain in the bed because you will fall asleep. Do the usual ritual of the dream diary and get up from that comfy bed of yours. Wash you face, walk or even better - Read about lucid dreams. Note to self - Being in the mood/state of mind that you are about to enter the LD will rise your chances to actualy acheive it. Reading about LD will get you some motivation to stay awake for 15-30 minutes. Actualy, there is no precise time. Each of us has his biological clock working and ticking but statisticaly speaking and from my experience, 15 minutes is ok, 30 minutes is good.



Ok, now after you are done with the preperations, we need to get started. Close the windows and the doors so that you won't have no one to interfere with your WILD. Lay back at your bed and stay in the position you are normaly going to sleep in (You can just remember how did you woke up and get into that position). Do a good self-suggestion to magnify your will and your motivation that you are going to sleep and you will enter the dream. Now it is magic time.

1. Step one - relaxation
   There are tons of ways to do a good relaxation. If you already have it, just do it good and skip this step. If you don't know any good way to relax, you can follow this simple step.
   It's important to lay comfortably and just enjoy the feeling of relaxing.
   Phase one - Breathing. Inhale and Exhale slowly but not too slow and imagine the path that the air does from the space of your room, into your nose, through the lungs and into your body; And when you exhale - from your lungs to your mouth/nose and back to the room. Try to focus all your thought into it and when you exhale you feel your muscles resting and relaxing. Say it to your self "I am relaxed.... My muscles are relaxed" or when you exhale you can say the term "Relaxation" on each exhale.
   Phase two - Heart-beat. Continue Phase one until you can feel your heart beat very good and you have a slow heart beat. As soon as you hear your heart-beat, move your concentration to the heart-beat. Try to "listen" to it and understand it's pace. try to relax some more and make it move slower and easier. Don't neglect the part you are saying to yourself "Relaxation" on each exhale if you began that. When you feel that you can "predict" your heart-beat and it is slow and relaxed, continue to the next Phase.
   Phase three - Relaxing the muscles. Continue the listening to your heart-beat but move your concentration to your muscles. It is time to move your concentration from your upper muscles - the neck , the shoulders and chest down until you reach your lower muscles in your feet. Move that concentration slowly focusing on each muscle for a couple of moments and going on until you reach your feet. When you reach your feet, if you feel relaxed, move on to the next Step of the WILD. If you don't feel relaxed you can do this Phase again but only once again because after that you can fall asleep pretty deep.


2. Step two - Count down / Outer concentration.
   One important note before we continue.
   In the relaxation part, you can encounter one or both of these symptoms: Sleep paralysis** , HI**. I will cover them at the bottom of this post so you can read about them too. Mainly, don't be alarmed it is all normal and it is happening to you when you go to sleep every night when the difference is that you are usualy unconscious at this point. Anyhow, this can happen while you relaxing or while you are counting/concentrating.
   Count down - Very simple stage with slight difficulty. Pick a high number such as 1000 or 2000 etc... and start counting down very slowly. Continue to concentrate on your relaxed body too but most of your focus will be on counting down. While counting you will notice that you will begin to mix numbers and to do some rather odd mathematical conclusions 555-1 = 234 etc... Do not be alarmed, your mind and body are falling asleep, this is more than normal this is a good sign. When you encounter that you were wrong mathematicaly, go back to the last number you remember you did right and begin counting down again. Do not neglect the counting or your mind will give-up and go to sleep.
   Outer concentration - Remember that clock sound or beep sound I told you we will use? Well its time. If you do not want to do the count down you can just concentrate on a motoric sound that is repeating itself in the same intervals all the time monotonicaly. Where do you get that device? Well, how about a clock? Metronome? continue the concentration on that sound while trying to predict when will the sound appear again.


3. Step three - Loosing senses
   Ahh, Now you are all relaxed and begin to mix numbers or loosing concentration when suddenly, you hear some funny noises of your neighboors talking and walking and playing and shouting etc... What?! It's night time how can they do all this noise? Why do I hear it so loud? Well my friend, this is all in your head.
   What happens is that your mind is going from getting input from the outer world to the inner world - your "imagination" and all the sounds you hear, the feelings you get as though there is a chill wind in the room or the lights you see are all in your mind. Do not be alarmed.
   I do not want to cover "The witch effect" here because it is a stupid tale and it happens only to those who think about it and read about it. Please do not do this to yourself it is just frustrating to fail your WILD when you get so far because of that witch.
   Eventualy, when your senses are completely transferred, you will then be in your lucid dreams, the HI** become more vivid and you will be able to just "Turn around" and enter your own created and induced LD!

*Special note about Outer concentration. Some may think "Hey, but what about that ticking sound when I begin hearing all those voices?" Well, the ticking sounds are in your mind too but are affected from the real tickin sound. Do not be worried about that and just continue concentrating on that funny noise.

My story

My first WILD was after I had some experience in the LD and already did some very interesting things in that world. I really don't remember the correct date or year (What can you do if your diary is so old you can't understand almost nothing there).
I began the WILD and I want to describe what it was like when I succeed.

First, when I had sleep paralysis, it was not the first time because I already got to that stage once so I felt glad - It is a very advanced stage to come to.
But the magic began when I heard some strange noises and felt that there is a party in my room and I was not invited!
People walk around and I heard and felt them running near my bed, on my bed etc... and I thought to myself "Wow, that's the first time!" It was all fun and the HI** became more vivid and I actually could visualize my room and the people having fun and jumping and talking and so on when suddenly I felt someone sitting near me on my bed. I spooked. Is this real? or is it my own imagination again? Moments after that question rised, I felt that everything is fading so I concluded "Its imagination" so my fright level got down. Then again, that feeling that someone sat next to me on my bed but now, a hand touched my shoulder. I usualy sleep on my side so I naturaly wanted to turn around ( My front is to the wall) but my body was already paralysed (Sleep paralysis **) so what happened is I did turn around but with my dream self. I turned and I saw some figure, I really don't recall who. I was still on my bed but I was in a desert like place. I realized "Its a dream!".

That was the first succesfull WILD that ended right after I told that figure "Its a dream!". From the excitement I woke up.

Comments

HI** - Hypnagogic Imaginary - Is actually figures and visions you see that have no meaning and looks mainly like a calidoscope of total chaos. The HI appears in the fresh phases when we fall asleep. Look at it as fragments of pictures going on and off in a very quick speed.

Sleep Paralysis - This is a normal stage we go through every time we go to sleep. Our body is being paralysed so that we won't move during our sleep. People with some sleep disorders have problems with this stage due to a lack of a chemical in the brain called Serotonin.
It is all normal and we should feel comfortable with the paralysis in the WILD. This stage when you fel paralysed means that you are pretty close to have your LD.

Well , I covered one of the most powerful tools of the Lucid dreamer. This is a technique hard to use but if you try and try and try, you will be succesfull.

If you have any questions or experiences to share, do comment.

Until next time