Last evening I was doing a HILD (see the HILD tutorial), in order to try to break my boring recall free dream streak this week. I was very tired and when I was counting in order to relax, starting at about count 60, I starting having some weird sensations, some of which were expected, some of which were not.

Starting at aroung count 60, I started keenly feeling my heatbeat. Maybe Around count 75, I started feeling a tingling sensation in my upper legs. at about 90, I started feeing a pulsating sensation in my left elbow. This was the weirdes, and as your elbow doesn't pulsate, It is very hard to describe. my best explanation is that it felt as it my elbow was pulsing against the ground. These continued throughout my self-hypnosis, with one or the other being more felt at times. Also, the sensations weakened as a breathed in, and intensified as a breathed out. Another experience which was interesting was that i felt an extreme heaviness in my fingers at one point, that was much more than in any other body part. These experiences were some of the weirdest I have felt.

I know some of these, like heaviness and tingling is expected, but some of the feelings felt like what I would expect to feel in a WILD (I haven't attempted one yet). I should mention I was very tired, and probably could have WILDed right there it I had continued counting and added "I am Lucid", even though it was only about 7 pm adn I was lying on the basement carpet. Are these experiences normal for HILDing, and other experiences where you enter a very relaxed state? because last time I did a self-hypnosis, it was nowhere near to these sensations. It was interesting, and I kept at it the whole way, but It was really weird, and nothing like I expecte.