Thread: Questions about my two different WILD experiences

I apologize in advance for the length of this post. But I am very confused with the events of last night and would like some of the more advanced WILDers to help me reconcile the confusion.

I have been practicing WILD every night for about 1 week now and have experienced what I thought was pre-paralysis sensations. Based on what I have learned from this site, I used either a variety of the counting method, the reverse eye blinking method, false eye rem method.
I would at some point feel vibrations that gets stronger and stronger, itches that come and go, and increasing heaviness of body that eventually fades away. I also hear voices from nowhere. This is however, always interrupted by my shortness of breath which causes me to restart the process over and over again. (I would spend 4 hours or 5 hours trying to get full body paralysis to no avail.)

Well, I finally decided that WILD was not going to work for me at this point and to retry it at a later time. So, instead of following the methods listed above, I allowed my thoughts to move freely while lying in bed. Though I wasn't going to re-attempt WILD again, for some reason I had it in the back of my head to not fall asleep. What happened next was a totally different experience. (I'm aware that this is also another WILD method on this website, but did not think it would work)
my thoughts moving from one idea to another, images started flickering in my mind, the images would float around and faces would appear and change in my mind's eye. I still have a very, very light peripheral link to my physical body and could only feel it slightly, unlike the method above, where I could feel the physical sensations a bit more strongly.

I find myself viewing an visual and audio sequence where two people that looks like the adams family sitting in front of the fireplace. They are talking to someone, and they said that there were no ghosts. Then they turn to the fireplace, which is between my view and them, and they say "okay, you can come out now."

I see a mirror-like portal opening in the fireplace and then I hear a voice:
I'm here now...

At exactly this moment, I start to feel the strangest sensations come over my physical body. I feel a wave of pure energy flow throughout my body. I feel a strong sense of paralysis lock my body down and I feel my mind immersed in a energy whirlpool. My sense of self is twisting into different shapes, like I was made of putty and I could feel my sense of self stretching to some kind of horizon event. It lasted for what seemed like 1or 2 minutes then I find myself in bed. I get up with a strange sense of heaviness in my mind, and hit my alarm clock. My alarm clock is the type that when you hit the button, the time is projected on the wall. I thought that would be an excellent RC since I read that turning on the lights would not work in dreams. So using an alarm clock that projects the time on the ceiling would similarly not work since it turns a light on to project the time on the wall. to my dissappointment, I could see the light on the ceiling. I hear my wife awake, and she is talking to me saying that she is not feeling well...
I lose concentration for a second, trying to divide my attention between the clock and my wife, then suddenly find myself awake again in bed. This time, my wife is sound asleep. I check the alarm clock and this time the time is projected clearly on the ceiling. In the first one, the image on the ceiling was a bit blurry.

The physical sensations that I felt was huge energy flowing through my body, a strong sense of paralysis, and a my mind twisting to reaching an event horizon. I heard voices constantly but felt absolutely no vibrations, no itches, and I most importantly, did not feel the breathing difficulties I had with the earlier methods. However, the fireplace sequence sounds like a dream sequence and not the normal precursors one would associate with pre-SP events. After I heard the voice " I'm here now", then the sensations and events seems to mirror full sleep paralysis onset, the full paralysis that I could feel, and the energy flowing through my body and the twisting of my mind to the event horizon. I've also read that false awakenings are associated with WILDs.

so why is my latest experience so markedly different from my previous attempts? Which one is the right path to WILD? Or is the latest experience not WILD, but a dream sequence only?

Thank you for any advice.