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   Hi!   
      
   pero (pero_________@yahoo.com) wrote about "WILD-CAT method to induce   
   Lucid Dream":   
   > My friend just told me about this method.   
   > Is it good, and where can I find more about it?   
   > Any instruction?   
   You mean "wake-induced lucid dreams", I guess?   
   -As a matter of fact, it was such a WILD which brought me to lucid   
   dreaming at all: one night I had such a dream, but did not know anything   
   about lucid dreaming at all.   
   Searching the www afterwards told me that my strange experience was a WILD   
   and that there are other lucid dreaming forms as well. :-)   
   An excellent book about lucid dreaming in general is from Stephen LaBerge,   
   and Howard Rheingold, "EXPLORING THE WORLD OF LUCID DREAMING", which also   
   covers WILDs.   
   The best description I can give you is that a WILD is "falling asleep   
   consciously": You watch yourself as you are falling asleep. The trick is   
   not to try too hard (because then, you will stay awake for ours -trust me,   
   I know what I'm speaking of...) and not to loosely, as then you will fall   
   asleep as you normally do. Best thing therefore is to be relaxed, loosely   
   watching your mind and being slightly tired.   
   You know that you are on the right track when you (consciously!) notice   
   how your mind gets easy and you are noticing "hey, I'm starting to fall   
   asleep". In the beginning, it was *very* hard for me in that situation not   
   to awake instantly again just by _that_ single thought -one must overcome   
   one's impatience, it seems...   
   WILDs are very strange (at least for me), as they are always the same: It   
   is like falling into a tunnel; or, in movie notation: like a camera, which   
   is moving closer to an object while simultaneously opening its objetive   
   lenses to wide angular -only that this effect never ends: I'm falling and   
   falling while my body is becoming lighter and lighter. Very strange. All   
   the time, a distortingly loud and low-frequency buzzing in my ears comes   
   up which makes me awake after a few minutes. -Well, that's what WILDs are   
   all about *for me*: Very repeating and therefore, not that interesting   
   after you had them (it) a few times. Okay, still very vivid & impressing,   
   but nothing compared against a regular lucid dream.   
      
   LaBerge writes that achieving WILDs would be easier than achieving a   
   normal lucid dream, but I personally disagree. Achieving a WILD   
   intentionally is very hard (to me), it takes a very narrow road to be   
   conscious enough to notice falling asleep, but not being too conscious to   
   not fall asleep at all.   
      
   Again, your mileage may vary...   
    Kai   
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