Essentially it's just a basic WILD... But it's given me two lucid dreams the two times that I've tried it! I'm sorry, I'm not really trying to share with you something you haven't heard, but kind of just talk briefly about my past two experiences and hope that someone can get an explanation they need from my post.
The past two times I've woken up in the middle of the night, I close my eyes and lie there for a moment, and imagine where I want to be. The first night I imagined the beach. Slowly the sounds of waves reached my ears, and then faded. They came back, and then faded. I figured I would have to drive harder to achieve the dream. I worried myself almost awake trying to grasp onto my dream.
But instead, something quite the opposite happened. As I started to let go of all my effort, my body started to tingle. My entire body flooded with what could only be described as strong vibrations. Slowly, this subsided. I opened my eyes and plugged my nose to find that I could breathe, and was officially in a lucid dream for the first (non 5-second lasting) time.
This morning I woke up around 6:00. This time, after recalling my previous experience, was a snap! I lie there and imagined simply wanting to wake up in this room in a dream. I felt the tingles. I opened my eyes. I plugged my nose, but I couldn't breathe. I was still awake. What had happened?
After some speculation, I realized this:
I was already dreaming the first time I had tried to WILD! It had been a false awakening! I laughed at this because I had realized my room looked different but refused to acknowledge it in my attempt to get a WILD.
So, this time I lie there a bit longer and imagined waking up in this room, once more. Quickly the tingly feeling came, and this time when it did, it brought with it a most interesting sensation. With my eyes closed, I could feel my body leave the bed, do a full circle and fall into the floor. When I opened my eyes and plugged my nose, I realized I was now dreaming. I immediately got up and set out to do DREAM THINGS!
So basically, in summary, for those who don't want to read all my gibberish:
Both times that I have done the WILD technique, they have been characterized by five simple steps.
1) Wake up.
2) Close my eyes.
3) Imagine where I want to go, or what I want to do.
4) Feel my body begin to vibrate.
5) It subsides, I open my eyes, I'm dreaming.
Here's the thing, though, I was always confused into thinking that people would just take a gamble and open their eyes to find out if they're dreaming. I thought you wouldn't be able to tell for sure and just had to try. That is most definitely not correct.
When you go through sleep paralysis or REM atonia, whichever it may actually be, you come out the other side KNOWING for a FACT that you are asleep. You just know! You'll feel asleep, and you'll just kind of realize over all. That's when you can get up.
But trust me, when you go through that stage and are asleep, you most definitely know.
