Hiya,

it's hard to believe, yesterday I replied to a similar post, but now it happened eventually to me.

So far I have only had a few MILDs but made no progress at all in attaining WILDs - when I try to fall asleep conciously, either I'm too awake and conscious to fall asleep at all, or I'm way too drowsy to remain conscious. Last night, however, I used LaBerge's counting method, where you count "1 - I'm dreaming; 2 - I'm dreaming" etc. After a while a had a falling sensation and heard a loud noise in my head. It was a fealing similar to fainting. Then I felt that I became paralyzed, which was quite terrifying.

The mean part was, I did not become lucid at all but had a false awakening instead ! This is extremely stupid, because this false awakening was full of my dream signs, which I did not recognize. Finally, I woke up for real.

How can I enter a lucid dream when I manage falling asleep consciously ?