Thread: Vibrations and WILD

Don't worry about having questions, this can all be very confusing.

The vibrations are part of the sleep paralysis experience. SP is essential to sleep because otherwise you'd act out all of your dreams in your sleep. Normally you aren't conscious for the paralysis, but in the case of WILD, you are - since the whole point is to stay conscious while falling asleep.

Feel free to ask if you have any other questions.

oh i see. Thank you very much. So i tried wilding last night. It didn't work really but i dont know if i was doing it right. I woke up at 4, on my own. Went to the bathroom. Laid back down and started counting. 1."I'm dreaming" 2."I'm dreaming" 3. "I'm dreaming"
etc. etc. I got to about 108 and heard a loud sound and my mom yell my name, but she wasn't awake. Then i felt like i knew what Clerity was talking about when she said "A change in your conciousness" Then i felt i was asleep and i moved. but i couldn't see anything. And i was like "!!!! im Lucid" And then woke up do to the excitement.

Here's my personal theory as to what's going on w/ vibrations ...

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=51417

Neet, i read your therory sounds just about as concevable as anyone elses theroy. But did it sound like i was doing the WILD right? Or anythign i left out. lol alot to remeber with those

Wow! I can't believe that other people experience vibrations too! I love this site! I feel them for a short period of time upon waking and have long wondered what causes them. It never occured to me that other people might have experienced it too. Another thing I get sometimes at the moment of awakening is that I'll experience a very fleeting but incredibly intense emotion relating to something that is currently occurring in my life. Even if I think really deeply when I'm awake I can't generate anywhere near such a powerful emotion as in the moment of re-emergence from a dream. Does anyone else experience this?

With regard to the vibrations, my guess would be that the neurons in your brain start to fire slowly creating a pulsing sensation until they get up to speed as the nerves are reconnecting at the start and end of SP.

Sorry but I am just blown away to discover this site yesterday. For years I have been doing all these things like WBTB and RCs (except I had different terms for them!) all on my own and now I discover thousands of other people do it too! It's so exciting to be able to discuss it all with people who know what I'm talking about! Yeehaaaaaaaaa!

I don't really get that with the vibrations to be hones.
I got SP, heart rate, breathing problems, HI, FA and all that kind of stuff, but never the vibrations.
I don't thing everyone got them, or atleast not always when drifting away.

Everyone gets SP, unless they have a psychological disorder. The vibrations, i think, are just the shock of the onset of SP. You aren't recieving any impout from your body, so it just makes stuff up. Thats why not everyone feels them.

Lately I've been getting crazy vibrations every time I WILD. I posted a thread about it a while back.

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=53823

I did some research and found that vibrations like this are also commonly reported after spinal injuries and as a side effect of medication that interferes with your nervous system. I wonder if it is a direct physiological side effect of your body becoming paralyzed.

My new theory is that when your muscles stop receiving input from your brain, the nerve endings are left 'open' without input. Maybe this leaves them just picking up 'static' from your body's other electrical activity which is interpreted as vibration or a kind of white noise.

Similar to what happens with HI. With a lack of input from your eyes, the visual center of your brain starts generating its own random geometric images, lights, ect. Maybe its the same thing, but with the physical sensation part of your brain.

Or maybe it is what the Astral Projectors say it is. I'm open to any theory, since it seems to remain a mystery.

I like the gravitational theory that DrTechnical proposed. That would be seriously cool.

untoldfable
I understand your questions because I had the same questions when I just started learning about Lucid Dreaming.

I've never WILDed before. I try, but with VERY little results. My hands get paralyzed...that's it. No visual or audial hallucinations, no vibrations, no complete paralysis...NOTHING! I will keep trying though... The WBTB method worked once for me, I tried WILDing, hands got paralyzed, after an hour I gave up, went to sleep and had a LD. To bad for me some Dream Lurkers jumped me....

An interesting point of comparison.

I believe this has strictly to do with loss of sensory perception as opposed to SP in part because I have also felt vibrations at the onset of Salvia induced visions.

I am familiar with two types of vibrations. First, the ones about the head and neck which I mentioned previously. The other sensation I have experienced (though more rarely) are vibrations running down my legs. I have had this at the onset of a sleep, and at the onset of visionary experiences induced by a big hit of some strong salvia.

On salvia, I don't think the body is truely paralyzed, though there is a tendency to stay still due to the significant loss of sensory processing.