Wake Induced Lucid Dream (WILD)

To perform the WILD technique, do the following:

Step 1:
Set the alarm on your clock or cell phone to wake you up 5 to 6 hours after going to sleep. Try to time the alarm to wake you up during the middle of one of your 1.5 hour sleep cycle intervals, since this is when you will likely be in the REM stage.

Step 2:
Get in bed and go to sleep at night as you normally do.

Step 3:
When the alarm wakes you up, turn it off and close your eyes again.

Step 4:
Now that your eyes are closed again, you will begin to drift back to sleep. You may begin seeing hypnagogic imagery of faces, etc. Continue repeating "I will have a lucid dream" to yourself. Visualize yourself being conscious and aware in your dream. Try to visualize being logical about everything you see with your eyes closed.

Step 5:
Slowly, but surely, you will begin to feel your body entering the dream. Your body will begin to relax into what is called "sleep paralysis", where you can't move. This paralysis happens every time you fall asleep, but you usually don't realize it, because by then you are unconscious and unaware that you are asleep.

Step 6:
Continue falling deeper until you enter the dream and you are lucid.