Sleep stage?

[ranaenelcomal]

Yesterday night, as I was trying to WILD, I noticed something strange happening to me: I was lying there, counting, focusing my mind and trying to relax when all of a sudden my body relaxed all by itself; my breathing intensified and quickened, and I was quite conscious of this. Could anyone tell me whether this marks a certain sleep stage (and if so, which one it is...)? (Itll be useful when keeping track of progress during WILD).

[The_Musician]

thats where your going wrong. If your able to keep progress then you wont WILD. The process is finished when your in the dream.

[ranaenelcomal]

Aw, shucks. Should I just let go at that point?

[skywatcher]

ranaenelcomal, I've yet to have a WILD but I have had that experience too while trying. In my case, I thought since my breathing got faster that I had failed WILD so I just rolled over. But, I think if you keep still eventually you'll start seeing HI and should be able to enter the dream shortly after.