What Happens When I Try To Wild.

Let me start off by saying i've had 2 Successfull WILDs so far. But for some reason this is what happens every time i've tried after those two -

I Strip down to my boxers and lay in the Supial position and lightly close my eyes, and begin counting down from 100 saying "I'm dreaming" after each number.

I get very relaxed to the point where my arms feel like lead, then when my mind starts getting carried away (by starting to dream) i snap back into reality seconds before I step over that threshold into Lucidity. Its VERY annoying.

Every so often i get a sinking sensation just before i snap into reality, and i get slight rhythmic vibrations that travel up my spine. I DO NOT go into sleep paralysis though, both times i've WILD'ed i've just completely skipped the sleep paralysis part somehow.

So my problem is that just before i step into my dream world its like my body says "Shit your falling asleep" and brings me back from unconciousness, i dont want this to happen though! It seems no matter how empty i make my mind im always just that concious where i realize i'm drifiting off... I've tried waking up 5-6 hours, but when i wake up, i stay up. I never fall back asleep. (even when i'm not trying to WILD) I feel like i'm stuck and at a loss. Has anyone else experienced this sort of problem, and if so, how did you solve it?

This happened to me just last night, almost exactly how you described it. I was lying in bed and counting to myself saying "I'm dreaming" and every time my mind felt itself going to sleep it would jolt back to conciousness. It is annoying. I'm not sure how to get around it yet. I ended up switching to regular sleep and then trying to attain lucidity inside the dream.

Yes thats exactly whats happening to me... i cant seem to stop it... i'm not a patient person and the fact that i've already WILD'ed before makes me feel like i should still be able to do it. I'm going to just keep trying and hope i somehow forget that i'm alive. XD

Well, I've just recently started trying to Lucid Dream, and have failed for the almost 1 month that I've been trying, and I seem to have this same problem when I try to WILD without Audio (which I've been trying out, failing at too). My body feels like it weighs a ton, and my mind starts to fall away into random idea's that are a hell of a lot more vivid than when I usually dream, then BAM I randomly "wake up", sort of, and I PHYSICALLY jolt and I get so pissed off.

I can't help you with WILDing, but it is normal to skip sleep paralysis. At least according to LaBerge in EWLD, sleep paralysis only occurs in the induction technique in which you focus on your physical body, not in the counting and HI methods.

Well i went into sleep paralysis last night though, i have what happened documented right HERE.

I have to say i find it much more exciting and easier to control your dreams when you go through sleep paralysis first! I'm still having that trouble though with clearing my mind completely or whatever.. so i'm still looking for advice in regards to that.

Everytime I meditate before bed I notice my conscous being jolted awake when I feel my muscles twitch, although I've never tryed to hard to remain conscous after the twitching starts up, it usualy indicats sleep paralysis for me, or at least the times that I have WILDed, when I'd be drifting off to sleep and be jolted awake right before my body became paralysed. One time after opening my eyes slightly they got dragged shut, felt like they weighed 100 pounds.