Thread: What is your WILD experience?

Well i tried it a couple times, but i never actually got a LD. But i was succesful in getting to the HI phase, and SP.

First 5 or 10 mins, i was just feeling relaxed and i couldnt see anything. I got slowly numb and small vibrations started going around my body. It felt like sleeping on a washing machine. You know how it vibrates?

It KIND OF feels like a marijuana high, but more of a body thing?

Eventually i started feeling detached, and that my physical body was like.. not there. But i couldnt slip into my dreams because i was too mentally awake.


I noticed small images, well not images, just... vibrations of colors? in my eyes. If i focused on it they vanished.

I got bored and fell asleep

I only get vibrations in my neck, then upper body. If I'm really lucky, I'll feel them in my eyes. I wish I could get as far as SP. The best HI I've seen is about 10 seconds worth of the black & white clouds I see when I close my eyes that seemed to move by themselves.

For me, the transition involves vibrations, numbness, the sinking feeling, and the "shift". I haven't experienced hynogogic imagery yet, and this is what seems to be keeping me from completing the WILD and beginning the lucid dream.

well i did not feel any numbing or tingling but something else-i cant describe, and I was totally not expecting it to happen so fast. Then i felt myself roll over, and fall. All this time my vision was black. Then I was stuffed in this box unable to move, and there was like glass or a forcefeild that would not let me through it. I could see thru to the other side of the 'glass'(it was clear in the middle but opaque on the edges) into the room I was sleeping at. Oh and at this pt i cant feel my real body anymore. Then this really deep voice began talking loudly in like Latin(and i know what latin would sound like since i studied it 2 yrs), but the wds were spoken with no spaces in between. It was quite long, and i was trying really hard to see if I could pick out any wds. Then I started to wonder if they would translate at the end in English. At the end, a different voice, not so deep, said "All dreamers who wish to enter dreamland and/to play may". Then the glass was not blocking the box's entrance, but now i was like stuck in air or gelly, which melted and let my arms free, then i was able to climb out, but when i stood up i was in a completely different rm.

I've WILDed sucessfully a few times, however each time felt a bit different.

I focus on how it feels to breathe, or if I'm relaxed enough, I just let my mind go blank. I wait a while (a few minutes to more than an hour) and suddenly I'll feel:
-like my heart is beating so hard my chest hurts and I can't breathe
-like my whole body is vibrating violently
-like the top of my head has just lifted off and my soul is flowing out
-like I'm falling/or being dragged off of my bed

If I can stay calm I might get a little HI (usually a guy in black staring at me, or a huge wolf), then the dream starts. Normally the dream is kind of hazy at first, so I just hang around for a few minutes until it clears up.

Hmmm...for me it all depends on sleep paralysis. If I don't get that, theres a good chance I'm just going to have to DILD, and sleep paralysis changes for me.

I'll be lying down, eyes closed relaxed and all that good stuff, and as soon as I feel myself slightly doze off, I'll start breathing slower...where I'm holding on the exhalations. During this time I may see a quick image of something, but most of the time it's blackness, sometimes it'll even be something like a mini dream, I'll see something, and hear some words, but it'll only last a couple of seconds. I'm not that good on the whole "visualize" thing. After that, sleep paralysis should start kicking in and it'll feel like one or some of the following.

I'm falling out of an airplane, with no wind around me
I'm going down a water slide
I'm rocking back and fourth like I'm on that pirate ship ride at the fair
I feel rumbling, and it feels like i cant breath.
it feels like a dog is trying to lick my ear
or someone is blowing in my ear

Normally I don't hear anything but sometimes I'll hear whispers or a woman moaning sexually.

When all of that comes to an end, I'll open my "eyes" and it'll be a false awakening of my room. Theres only been a couple of times I entered the dream in some random place.

To sum it all up for me...I'm laying in my bed....trying to sleep/stay awake...sleep paralysis...false awakening...and then I'm in the dream. I'm not not visualizing anything when I WILD. While I'm getting comfortable or that in between time during the WBTB I'm thinking about what I'm going to try out the next time I enter because I'm too jittery when I think about it during the actual process. I'm just trying to get to SP, and if that doesn't happen more than likely I'll still go directly into a dream with a better chance of getting lucid than the normal "I slept for x hours" stuff. And I guess it's time to stop typing

I've never WILDed on purpose before, they have spontaneously happened long before I learned that they have a name. I usually never finish them, because they are scary, even though I now know it's safe, and nothing bad will happen.

It typically happens on weekends, when I can sleep in. I'll lie on my side, and at first, my body will get tingly, and I see colors, almost always as a green, moving fog. I then feel vibrations going through my body, I find this a bit unpleasant. Eventually, I stop feeling my body, but still conscious. This is usually when I stop, and open my eyes, and I soon feel my body again, and I'm awake. I've only once had a proper WILD where I didn't lose consciousness, no blackness. I was just seeing the inside of my eyelids, when suddenly a scene with green plains materialised before my eyes, and at the same time, my real body "turned into" my dream body. I recognised this as a dream, but it felt so weird that I woke up within seconds.

I have on occasions seen hypnagogic images, but I usually don't fall properly asleep if I see them in the morning. This happens when I've stopped feeling my body, but I don't enter a dream. It's like watching a movie without having a body.

The WILD that was closest to success for me was an unintentional one.

I was just laying in bed trying to fall asleep. I was completely still doing a relaxation technique, then I let my mind wander after a while. And at some point I suddenly felt this very intense "rush" come all over me, starting from my feet. It was like this extremely strong gust of wind which sent me flying off my bed towards the window.

I got startled and snapped out of it.

In most of my actual WILD attempts I get to the point where I feel numbness and vibrations, accompanied by hypnagogic hallucinations I think. Because my mind is creating scenarios without my concious effort. I just observe them like a movie. (Correct me if i'm wrong about this being hypnagogic)

I haven't gotten past this point yet, because I usually snap out of it eventually and become too awake. But I haven't really made an effort to practise this yet. But I plan to

ive never gone through a procedure to get one, but i always know if im going to fall into a "wild" about 30mins before, and if i want one i will go to sleep when i get this feeling, and if i dont want one i will stay awake untill this feeling has passed. what always impresses me is not the visuals but the sound. there is often music in the "background" that my brain is improvising and i'm listening to the lyrics and they make sense but i'm not thinking about how the music should go, its just there. i find it hard to get past the blackness at the beginning without losing consciousness or "lucidity".

Originally Posted by Psylis

Hmmm...for me it all depends on sleep paralysis. If I don't get that, theres a good chance I'm just going to have to DILD, and sleep paralysis changes for me.

I'll be lying down, eyes closed relaxed and all that good stuff, and as soon as I feel myself slightly doze off, I'll start breathing slower...where I'm holding on the exhalations. During this time I may see a quick image of something, but most of the time it's blackness, sometimes it'll even be something like a mini dream, I'll see something, and hear some words, but it'll only last a couple of seconds. I'm not that good on the whole "visualize" thing. After that, sleep paralysis should start kicking in and it'll feel like one or some of the following.

I'm falling out of an airplane, with no wind around me
I'm going down a water slide
I'm rocking back and fourth like I'm on that pirate ship ride at the fair
I feel rumbling, and it feels like i cant breath.
it feels like a dog is trying to lick my ear
or someone is blowing in my ear

Normally I don't hear anything but sometimes I'll hear whispers or a woman moaning sexually.

When all of that comes to an end, I'll open my "eyes" and it'll be a false awakening of my room. Theres only been a couple of times I entered the dream in some random place.

To sum it all up for me...I'm laying in my bed....trying to sleep/stay awake...sleep paralysis...false awakening...and then I'm in the dream. I'm not not visualizing anything when I WILD. While I'm getting comfortable or that in between time during the WBTB I'm thinking about what I'm going to try out the next time I enter because I'm too jittery when I think about it during the actual process. I'm just trying to get to SP, and if that doesn't happen more than likely I'll still go directly into a dream with a better chance of getting lucid than the normal "I slept for x hours" stuff. And I guess it's time to stop typing

i had the blowing in ear thing once, it scared the shit out of me.
the airplane thing is a common one for me.

Well, now that I am a more experienced WILDer, I can say my experience with it is somewhat different now. With the techniques I have been using, I only feel a darkness and tingly sensation come over me during the trasition, in which point in time, I come out of my bed and enter the lucid dream much more quickly.

Traditional rapid spontaneous WILDs: I feel vibrations (tingling or distorting feelings), and within 5 minutes or so I am dreaming. Remembering having been awake and the vibrations, I can go off and do whatever I want.

Cultivated WILDs, including my first FILD experience: I keep myself half-awake trying to prepare myself to lucid dream, via FILD or repeating a verbal reminder of my intention to lucid dream. I eventually start seeing hypnagogic imagery. Knowing that it's hypnagogic imagery, I look for it to stabilize - I try to deliberately do things within the imagery. It fades quickly at first, but then it stays around more and more. When I can complete a simple action without the imagery fading, I am convinced I am fully dreaming, and continue on to pursue whatever dream goals I have.