WILDs: Waking-Induced Lucid Dreaming - A Beginners Guide - Supplementary #1: 'WILDs Versus DILDs'

[@JeffRandle89]

Great video. 🙏

[@ageinhippie]

Thank you for that! It's my hope to start an in-depth + detailed debate by contrasting & comparing the two methods involved, not with the intention of putting dilds down so much as elucidating the whole subject and thus bringing it that much closer to us for examination :)

[@christinawinfall6239]

Great video. So you don't have to go to sleep then wake up 4-6 hours in the night to perform the WILD? I didn't know you can enter straight into a lucid dream in the beginning of the night.

[@ageinhippie]

Indeed no, you don't have to do them like that at all, that was Laberge's original instructions for WILDing whereon he reported that after waking in the night it's seemingly easier to enter a WILD, which is kinda true and definitely works, only that's not the full story of what's actually occurring when we WILD! Truth is, we can enter a WILD at anytime of our choosing once we realise just what it is that triggers them, information that isn't available when using the wbtb method and which is basically the same as having just experienced one WILD and then having bounced back out of it to laying in bed, the next entry is even easier and can even be instantaneous (i.e., without even seeing any hypnagogia). However, it's only via using the hypnagogia that we can then learn to far more deliberately initiate a full WILD from a fully waking pov, this being something that then gives-rise to complete mastery over the initiating of them, wbtb effectively cutting-out this intial + crucial initiation of them in a more volitional manner and way + anyone doing it via hypnagogia will then also automatically know & understand just how wbtb actually works & why it works and also why it's undesireable to do them that way, that it's a kind of 'cheat' that only ultimately cheats the user out of doing them an even better + more useful way :)

[@ageinhippie]

@@christinawinfall6239 Having to continually wake up in the night is just too much of an inconvenient nuisance really, if that was the only way it could be done then we'd just have to put up with that. Thankfully, however, there is a better way :) And because one of the oddest things i've discovered from doing WILDs, is that whenever you accidentally fall asleep while 'trying' to WILD it often results in a spontaneous dild later that same night, a seemingly win-win situation especially for beginners trying to experience any kind of lucid dream to begin with, a once-per-day practice seemingly even more effective than reality checking & journaling all day long + that also happens a lot faster than usual too! Plus i really don't know why this should be the case except maybe to guess that just 'attempting' to WILD affects the subconscious mind far more directly thus bringing one's whole 'ability' to lucid dream closer to the surface, a genuine bonus in that all that work of pre-programming oneself via constantly reality checking etc, can be completely dispensed with - what a relief whew! :)

[@christinawinfall6239]

ageinhippie Yeah, I’m glad you brought that up. All of the other explanations I heard on lucid dreaming says you have to wake up in REM and proceed to the lucid dream, they typically say 4-6 hours of sleep. I’m glad that’s not the only way. Idk, or maybe I wasn’t paying too much attention, but this is the first video I watched that says you can have a lucid dream as soon you go to sleep, so it’s great I’ve come across this video. Plus to me, your explanation is a lot more clearer and easier for me to understand. I used to try to induce WILD through sleep paralysis, but I’m going to try through the hypnogogic imaginary as you’ve explained. Lol what’s funny is a just woke up from a nap and had a lucid dream after just writing that comment about having a dry spell earlier lol. I haven’t had a lucid dream in a little over a month, so that’s pretty cool!

[@ageinhippie]

@@christinawinfall6239 Haha, it's a sign from your subconscious maybe yelling Yes! Yes! This is what we want/need! (laughing). The thing with sp being that it actually puts many people off even trying as the visions initially accompanying it all tend to be rather scary & dark, which is fine if you can tough that out as it definitely results in a full WILD, it not being clear, however, if the resulting dream-state is an astral projection or an obe or just a WILD? I personally think it's actually all the same thing albeit it arrived at via different routes, and this merely because of the different approaches involved, truth is we know so very little about it all really that imho it's just best to reserve judgement until such times as we can then make a perhaps more informed decision on the matter when all (or enough) evidence is in to judge the matter properly, there's never any such difficulties involved however via the hypnagogia, wherein the whole process is clearly revealed from beginning to end, so all i can really add is: enjoy + happy exploring to you :)

[@christinawinfall6239]

ageinhippie Yeah I used to get sp all of the time throughout all of my teen years really until I turned 20, then it slowed down from there. I used to not even bother inducing sp to lucid dream because I thought those were really demons, and sometimes I would feel like I couldn’t breath and would hear noises or feel things touching me etc. Now I actually don’t mind it anymore since I know I can get to a lucid dream from being in that state. I’ve been excited all day to try the techniques in your videos, as it’s going to be much easier for me to do, plus I feel like I will have more lucid dreams from the way you’ve explained it. I haven’t had any obe or astral projections yet. I used to try, but then I got too scared because I’ve read some scary stories about it. I feel once I master the ability to lucid dream more frequently I will give it another go. But this most definitely gives me more hope because I really thought in order to have frequent lucid dreams you would have to be thinking about it nonstop, but now I see that’s not the only way. I feel as if I was guided to your videos. I feel so blessed 😇.

[@IAmTheFireInHeaven]

WILD!

[@stELjedi]

W.i.l.d also is called astral projection btw. nice vid.

[@ageinhippie]

Am beginning to think that it's really all the same thing? i.e., Different aspects of our ability to lucid dream called & defined by differing schools of thought on the matter, and when in fact it's really all the same thing, imho ;)

[@stELjedi]

​@@ageinhippie yes o.b.e and LD's are one and the same and that is the translocation of the "I AM" aka consciousness from one reality-data stream-density-dimension to another.

[@ageinhippie]

@@stELjedi Maybe... or maybe it's all the same thing and we are doing all these things at the same time on different levels simultaneously ;)