 Alright, what's up guys? It's Steph from howtolucid.com. We got a question from Valve and they say, when you do the wild technique, waking to lucid dream, do you need to keep your eyes closed or can you do it with your eyes open? This should be a fairly easy video to make because it's a very simple answer. You need to keep your eyes closed. But that is because, let me just quickly explain why, when you do the wild technique, what you're actually doing is going back to sleep. So you set your alarm to go off after six hours of your normal sleep. And then when your alarm goes off, you wake up, you turn your alarm off, then you lay back down in your bed, you close your eyes, that's quite important, you close your eyes and you attempt to go back to sleep. This is very similar if not the same technique as the wake back to bed technique. The only difference is the wild can be done at any time. You could do the wild in the middle of the day if you were to take a nap because it's based on keeping your mind awake while you fall asleep. You can do that at any time, whereas the wake back to bed technique is focused on doing that but after you've already slept for a few hours. So yes, you need to close your eyes when you do the wild because the technique involves going back to sleep. What will happen is, so you've closed your eyes, I'll just quickly run through it, you close your eyes and then you're going to start to see hypnagogia. This is shapes, images, colors, patterns that will sort of flash or move their way across your eyes when your eyes are closed. These patterns and images will get more intense and more vivid as you get closer to being asleep. When I say asleep, I mean because you're keeping your mind awake, you'll be dreaming. The more intense the image is, the closer you are to a lucid dream and what will happen is that as the images get more and more intense, you will start to enter the dream and manifest the dream scene around you. It's a very beautiful process and it really is one of the best techniques. When you can master it because it's difficult, it really is one of the most beautiful things to experience because you go from being consciously awake and then laying down, closing your eyes with the sole intention of having a lucid dream. You then close your eyes and you literally see the dream scene being created around you and when you can do that, you really do feel like you've got a good grasp of lucid dreaming. You feel like you can do something really special that not many people can do. So that's the answer to this question, Valve. You should keep your eyes closed when you do the wild technique because you need to go back to sleep and you can't easily fall asleep with your eyes open. Done.