First time WILD!

Hello! For the first time, I had a slight WILD last night. I won't say it was a complete lucid dream, because I wasn't able to hold it.

I went to sleep around 1:30 AM, woke up around 4:10 AM from a dream (I presume this was the first REM phase of the night) and I couldn't fall back to sleep, so I went out for a two mile run and came back ready for bed.

I have always depended on DILD for my lucid dreams, but I decided to try out WILD because why not? I was tired, and my body was even more tired after exercising so I lay down on my back and sit still.

After maybe ten minutes, my body becomes very heavy and numb, I start to feel my head rocking as if my bed is vibrating and behind my closed eyes I start to see flashing lights, streaks of light which I imagine is the hypnagogic state.

I sit tight and keep counting to myself "1.. I'm dreaming, 2.. I'm dreaming" to maintain my awareness and remember that I need to look for images if they do appear. Next thing I know, I'm engulfed in a scene where I'm on a dark

two-lane road driving a car, and while it felt like I was sucked into the scene and I did feel lucid, it didn't feel complete. When I attempted to fully place myself into the scene, I woke up and went straight into a dream lacking any

awareness. While this was an awesome experience, I'm curious as to what happened during that dream. It seems like I was almost transitioned over to the dream, but then it broke apart.

Awesome. I've been getting pretty close lately as well. I've yet to wild but have been lucid plenty. Good luck with your journey. I'm following this post to see if anyone else has some advice to share.

When I first started to WILD this happened to me all the time. I always struggled with crossing over from that kind of "sleep paralysis" state into a dream. Eventually I just kind of got better at it. So unfortunately I don't really have any advice other than to keep trying. Congrats on the experience I remember my first WILD experience I was so excited to even reach that little body heavy numb stage haha. Only thing I can really suggest is instead of waiting for a dream to come once you're in that numb stage is to basically take into your own hands, it's a little hard to describe, so I'll just tell you what I do.

I've found that when I'm in that numb stage my mind is really open to suggestion. So I basically imagine that I'm rolling off my bed. Like, in your mind if you imagine moving your hand in waking life you know how you can almost feel it actually moving. In this little numb state I've found that whatever I imagine basically happens. So I just roll off my bed and then my room becomes my dreamscape. Alternatively you could just start imagining a dreamscape and interacting with it and it should eventually just plop you into it. Anyways, I don't mean to try and push my methods on you or anything haha. If you have any other questions about WILD I' be pretty happy to answer, most of my lucids are from WILD, so I like to think I'm decent..