Within a CENTIMETER of WILDing...please help

[N2MDJ]

Okay so I just got up from an unsuccessful but VERY satisfying WILD. I'll explain how it went and would really appreciate some comments on how close I was and what I should have done toward the end. Okay, so I went to bed (unfortunately w/o using the WBTB method), and I was in SP for about 45-50 mins without any hypnogogia or anything (I don't have good dream recall ATM) and then all of a sudden I felt myself "float" away and become completely severed from my body and felt as though I was inside my head and perhaps in the dream world or something. All I could hear was my breathing and it was really intense. My heart was racing. SO after about 1 minute of this exhilirating experience, I decided I would get up and see if I was in a dream (this was about 10 mins ago)...but I wasn't! I did RC's and it was no false awakening. But I know I was soooooo close!!! WHAT SHOULD I HAVE DONE and what are some tips for next time?! THANKS VERY MUCH for y'all's help I really appreciate it! I'M ON THE ROAD TO WILDING !!! HEHEH

[sourcejedi]

I felt myself "float" away and become completely severed from my body and felt as though I was inside my head and perhaps in the dream world or something. All I could hear was my breathing and it was really intense. My heart was racing. SO after about 1 minute of this exhilirating experience, I decided I would get up and see if I was in a dream (this was about 10 mins ago)...but I wasn't! I did RC's and it was no false awakening. Wow, congrats. I was in SP for about 45-50 mins without any hypnogogia or anything I'd suggest visualisation / working with HI - because I think that's what you missed. I'm not saying that you're doing the wrong thing and that you need to be doing visualisation right from the start of the WILD. People differ. But when you next manage to get into this "intense state", I think you should try going on to try visualisation. Even if you don't have impressive sparks coruscating across your visual field or whatever (:-)) you're not seeing plain darkness; you must get some amount of visual "static". Let your eyes and mind try to interpret it - without forcing anything too much; don't cling to one scene, just let it flow - and you should sort of gradually transition to visualisations and forget about the static. If you lose it part way through you can just start from the static again - it's easier to get back into it once you've started. My own WILD experience (with WBTB) involved whizzing through a grey tunnel, feeling the wind on my face, and after a while landing suddenly in a dream. However, rather than just waiting for it to happen, other people have said that once they get a strong visualisation they can increase the detail using various techniques, expand it to fill their entire field of vision, and "step into" it, . Have a look at "Hooking into the LD" here.