Thread: Experimented with SSILD to get the feeling, had pretty interesting experiences...

Now the very first thing I'll say, is that I did not WBTB before doing this. It was during a nap around noon this morning. I just thought I'd try doing cycles to see what I get. I wasn't expecting that much.

So I started doing cycles, mostly in random order as I could not remember exactly what order to do them in. It did keep me aware however. After a while my hands started getting heavy, and while I could feel my bedsheets, I could not feel the texture of it anymore. The hand laying on my head was almost as if it was floating in space in a cocoon.

Amongst the patterns of light in my eyes, I got flashes of imagination, mostly random. It was hard to concentrate during this period. I eventually flashed to a dream scene where I was in my hometown, flying towards a water tower. I then went inside the water tower, and the water tower turned into a rotating restaurant sign. Right after that, I felt almost a zap, and that dream ended. I had a few more dreams during this, but was never able to enter them.

In the end, I got up, did a few reality checks (which said I wasn't dreaming), and then wrote them all down in the dream journal.

These dreams, while quite defined, were almost like daydreaming. I didn't feel in any way like I was in the dream at all. I could still feel I was in my bed.

That just means that you weren't completely in the dream and there was still a part of you that was still awake (not lucid, but awake). This happens a lot to me as dreams end and when doing any WILD/DEILD. Just let the dream continue to form around you and don't go jumping off into the dream world right when everything first becomes clear. You have to cement yourself in your dream and confirm that you are solely connected with your dream body, and not your real body. Your body needs some time to fall into REM atonia (technical term for SP) and often times your brain can finish a dream scene before this step happens.

Once you feel like the dream has fully formed around you and you don't feel any physical connection to your waking body, give it a few more seconds and then anchor yourself into the dream/stabilize it a bit. Then you can continue on with your dream like normal. Just be sure to keep some level of consciousness during this so you don't just fall asleep, but you knew that already

Originally Posted by Burke

That just means that you weren't completely in the dream and there was still a part of you that was still awake (not lucid, but awake).

Yeah that's what I'd thought! I'm glad I've been able to get close though!