u/elejelly

Hello everybody, I am posting this here as I was wondering if any of you could give me some tips regarding WILD.

You see it's been 3 years since I have started to get involved in lucid dreaming and in that period I have achieved about 10 lucid dreams. The problem is that I only achieved them through WILD twice in that period of time.

My main problem is that my brain needs me to be completely unaware for it to enter the dream stage. Otherwise I stay in early hypnagogia for however long I stay meditating.

Even when doing WBTB, my brain will refuse to progress in the dream stage unless I let my guard fully down. Most WILD attempts look like this. I start meditating, start seeing colored blobs, and then ... Nothing more. I can't progress any further. Eventually after 30 mins, I grow bored of it, start thinking of other stuff and that's when my awareness lowers and I'm finally allowed to dream.

The only time it can work is when I severely lack sleep, as my brain will override his defense mechanism to get some REM sleep.

Even then the length of my lucid dream are very short, no more than 2 or 3 minutes, as if my subcouncious absolutely hated that I was aware. The moment I start being self-aware, analysing the dream and just thinking, is the moment the dream fade away.

Are there any other light sleepers around here that have managed to do WILD, and if so, what are your techniques ?

TL, DR : As a light sleeper I need to have my guard absolutely down to sleep, which not compatible with WILD, and shortens my LDs.

Okay so I have been diagnosed with inattentive type ADHD one year ago, though I have self-diagnosed myself for 2 year and half now. For all my life, work has only been achievable through pressure and stress, I naturally have no drive nor energy to get to the end of a project.

So when I learned there was a treatment available I thought it was amazing, that finally I wouldn't to resort to pain and cold sweat to get through the work, that excitement could replace stress.

Where I come from Vyvanse is difficult to get and methylphenidate is the be all end all of ADHD treatment. I was hoping it could help... Only to see it resorted to the same technique I was already using, only this time chemically induced : stress. Yes I was doing work but only because I was stressed out on it.

The weirdest thing was that it felt almost exactly like caffeine, the same sweat, the same jitteriness, the same "motivation" coming from heightened anxiety.

I see Straterra being mentionned in here and I wanted to know if I could hope to get more energy out of it, or if the noradrenalin basis of the medication imply it will be the same as caffeine or methylphenidate : get productive because you're scared.