Re: confirmation/validation? absolutely!

### - smile, this dude has been trying to WILD for quite a while, but,  
like many people, not doing it exactly as recommended and thus getting  
delayed thereby, until now...

his problem turning out to be a fairly common one that keeps cropping-up,  
in that people initially read/see the instructions and then, because of  
their preconceptions/past experiences, seem to immediately want to do it  
their 'own' way instead of just simply following the recommended technique?

this occurring mainly amongst those who've already experienced lucid  
dreaming in one form or another via dild-doing; a setback total beginners  
to the whole subject of lucid dreaming typically manage to avoid due to  
their 'lack' of preconceived ideas getting in the way...

i.e., the best way to approach all this is to simply accept the  
well-researched instructions as presented, get your first full WILD in  
that manner, and only 'then' begin to personalise it to suit, not the  
other way around :)

here's his rather illuminating report:

Dean Soto posted in the WILDs & WILDing fb group today:

"Success!: After fixing two things I was doing wrong I Had my first WILD!

I started trying to WILD a few months ago, but had a really hard time  
seeing hypnogogic imagery. After a few weeks I would see them but mainly  
after waking up in the middle of the night and rarely from just the  
practice that Brian Aherne teaches. (Because I was doing it wrong)

After a lot of “failures” week after week I decided to take some time off  
and try other methods. Still, nothing seem to work to get me into a lucid  
dream at all.

After doing more research on other things, somehow I came to the  
realization that I was doing two things wrong.

First I was becoming way too anxious about the result of having a lucid  
dream. As I was doing the relaxation phase, all I could think about was if  
the hypnogogia would show up and why it was taking so long.

Second, because of that high, never fully relaxed and embraced that phase.

Long story short, I let go of all expectations and really focused on  
relaxing and would regularly start to see imagery during that phase  
because I was actually relaxed. I didn’t worry about how long it was  
taking or if it would happen. There would be several days where I would  
see imagery, but was never pulled into a dream at all but I didn’t care.

Last night I saw imagery and all of a sudden out of nowhere. I found  
myself in a janitor type closet, looking at a bunch of credit cards in my  
hand. I immediately knew that I was in a lucid dream, and it was very  
vivid.

I have had DILD dreams before, but this one was definitely different,  
because normally I would be scrambling to stabilize the dream, but in this  
case, I knew right away what was happening, and although I started to  
touch things in my dream, and started counting out all of my credit cards  
that I had in my hand and put them in a wallet, the dream itself didn’t  
get any more [vivid] or stabilized, it was as if it was already stable  
enough, which was very different.

I tried to make things happen, like create a portal that let me [be]  
somewhere else but nothing like that was working. So I left the place that  
I was in and went outside of a door into a hallway. There I saw two of my  
small daughters who are toddlers. I knew that I was in a dream and they  
weren’t real. However, my paternal instincts kicked in, and I knew they  
were all alone, so I went and started to take care of them. As I was doing  
that the dream ended and I woke up.

I wasn’t able to get back into a WILD because of the time, but holy crap  
was that awesome.

Took me a few months because I wasn’t consistent and tried to rush the  
process, but it is worth it knowing it is possible.

Thanks Brian for sharing your technique. It works."

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### - roll-up-roll-up! dild-do 'rehab' is now open for business folks  
haha...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWeFJGCIhes

"welcome!" :)


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