Documented by LaBerge, 1985
WILD
Wake Initiated Lucid Dream.
How to run it
From a WBTB waking, lie still and hold attention on a single point — the breath, a counted phrase — through the hypnagogic imagery, without moving, until a dream scene forms around you.
This one depends on waking at the right point in the night, and “about five hours” is not precise enough to act on. Work out your own alarm times from your bedtime — the calculator uses the 90-minute cycle so you wake between cycles rather than out of REM.
What the evidence says
Entering a dream directly from waking. The hardest to do and the least measured — and the one most likely to produce sleep paralysis, since you are deliberately staying conscious while the body locks down.
Context for that number: only 23% of people have a lucid dream in a given month at all, and 55% have ever had one. So a technique landing anywhere in double digits per night is doing something real — and is still not the switch these methods are usually sold as.