One of the most popular methods for lucid dreaming is the WILD technique and here I will be discussing some methods that will help you to have wake induced lucid dreams.
WILD is simply a dream that is conscious entered from the wakefulness state during the REM (rapid eye movement cycle).
This probably is most used lucid dreaming method because entering into a dream with a strong intention of becoming lucid during REM phase of sleep increases the chances of one to become conscious in his dreams.
Since rapid eye movement cycle is the phase of our sleep cycle where we have dreams, our mind is more aware in that state and this fact can be used to increase dream awareness using various …show more content…
Rapid eye moment sleep where our eyeballs keep moving, if you wake up during the end of this phase you will be wide awake and you will remember your dreams very well. If you have set alarms at different points during your night sleep, you might have seen that sometimes when you wake up you are more awake whereas during other times you feel very sleepy.
When you wake up more alert, you have just finished a REM sleep and when you find it difficult to get up, you were in a Non-REM deep sleep when you woke up.
You need to have at least 4 complete sleep cycle for a healthy sleep, so I advise you to set your alarm an hour before you wake up and observe if your mind is awake enough that you can write down your dream properly in your dream journal. (There are alternatives to dream journal, but writing your dreams on a paper is what I …show more content…
Best WILD Methods
When I say "best", I am talking about the methods that works best for me and I believe you will also get similar results using them.
1 - Switching Waking Up Time
This is the lucid dreaming method which works best for me, since this simple method has helped me to have multiple lucid dreams over a short period of time and I also love it because I really don't have much work to do here (Yes, I am lazy).
Just wake up during your REM cycle time (or one hour earlier than normal) and go back to sleep, close your eyes and try to sleep even if you are not able to until it is your usual waking time. The next day, wake up during the normal time, keep doing this on alternate days and you will start having lucid dreams in those extra minutes.
What happens is that our mind becomes very active in that extra hour which naturally increases the probability of lucid dreams.
2 - Reality