i had another WILD a couple of hours ago. I think it’s about my 5th or 6th. Although a strange thing occurred which has caused me to question the validity of my dream as a WILD. Basically, i was trying to have a WILD, but the moment i lost the awareness of trying to have the WILD(by boredom, perhaps?), i started slipping into the WILD. I got lucid after being in the WILD for a few seconds, but it definitely started out as a normal dream.
I was using the visualisation technique. i.e. creating your dream environment and stepping into it.
When i was in the dream, i was walking along a street with this punk kid from my old school, who i haven’t seen in about 4 years. I hated him at the time, but in the dream he was my freind… Anyway, i was in the dream, but at the same time, the moment i became lucid i said to myself, “hmmm, this doesn’t feel like a dream. It still feels like i’m visualising all this in my head”. So i ran up to a lamp-post and hugged it. This confirmed my dream state. I can still remember what it felt like to hug a lamp-post (something i don’t think i’ve ever done), and it was that familiar “not quite real” sensation that i’ve experienced in dreams before. It’s as though the touch sensation itself was a memory, and it happened only because i expected it to.
I don’t think i was particularly lucid during this dream compared to other lucid dreams i’ve had. While i knew i was dreaming, i still followed that punk kid around, and i still talked to him as if it was a normal conversation. Also, the fact that i had to hug the lamp-post to guage whether or not it was a dream suggests poor lucidity.
WILDing is fun.
shortly after that dream, i had a normal dream, and then an (almost)astral projection. This is kinda off-topic, but when i did the astral projection, the technique was scarily similar to WILDing. Infact, it was exactly the same, only i had to remain aware that what i was visualising wasn’t real. Eventually i felt very strong vibrations, and the visualisations were no longer neccessary. I managed to get my astral torso to roll over, but then i heard this deafening scream, and saw the image of some girl who looked like ann franke, so i snapped back to reality.