My WILD Adventure!

[Elite Dreamer]

For The Viewers: This thread is more or less for my own benefit. If any of you gain something from this, then great! Please feel free to comment or suggest anything you like and thankyou for your interest. Aim: The aim of this thread is to keep track of all my experiences while attempting to achieve lucidity through the WILD technieque. NOTE: This is NOT a dream journal and will not contain any dreams! Hypothesis: I think that I will be able to do this within 2 weeks max. I am confident that I will be able to figure it out pretty quickly. Hopefully I'm right. SUNDAY / MAY 1 / 10:00 PM. About 10 minutes in, my body began feeling heavy and very relaxed, I started seeing colourful flashes in front of my eyes but no exact clear imagery. After about another 10 minutes I started feeling odd movement. Like my bed was spinning off to the right continuously. Occasionally I felt like I was partially submerged in water and every time I breathed in, I floated up to the surface. I struggled to relax a little more after I felt odd feelings around my body like throbbing pulses that were kind of uncomfortable. I guessed that I was beginning the very first stages of sleep paralysis and it got my heart beating quite fast. I couldn't relax after this point and I found myself needing to swallow too regularly which was quite distracting. When I felt I was failing I opened my eyes again and moved myself to my normal sleeping position on my side and fell asleep normally.

[Tara]

I get that same problem. I get really close to sleep paralysis, and make it through the first few stages, but once I get close to the point of auditory hallucinations, my heartbeat goes nuts even though I'm not scared of SP anymore. I try to relax but I fail and then I get really frustrated.

[Ingenious zealot]

I had a similar experience last night, minus some parts. When I saw the swirling colors, I felt some sort of falling sensation and my heart started beating really fast. I attempted to stay with it but lost consciousness soon after. The increased pulse probably caused me to lose the relaxed state of mind. Hopefully as I gain more experience this will cease.

[Tarsier]

What you just described happens to me pretty much every night.

[Elite Dreamer]

MONDAY / MAY 2 / 11:00 Similar to my first experience but a bit slower in terms of progression. It took me about half an hour to relax properly. I tried visualizing dream scenarios but found that I was too aggravated by itches and swallowing. It never occurred to me how much I needed to swallow before falling asleep. On a lighter note, it was rather funny to see as my body begun fully relaxing my mouth kinda popped open as my jaw muscles relaxed. It made a funny noise as my lips separated and I assume it would have looked quite silly too. I didn't get the same sort of pulsing sensation I felt the night before and I was quite disappointed. However, still at the early stages it's not off putting to get these results.

[Mr_Jinsue]

I get the whole heart racing thing everytime I get vibrations. Mine are more like a shudder all over my body but I know what it means and I'm not scared of SP or anything (never done it but sounds so fun ) and I can feel my heart beating and hear the blood rushing in my ears. Also I get the swallowing problem constantly but I try to keep it to a minimum. Jaw muscles relaxing? Yes, and it gets me so annoyed because I can feel my mouth opening and I'm not sure if I wanna close it or not. Then if I do close it, it wants to open :S. If I sleep open mouthed my throat is terribly dry and raw the next morning too . Very similar to what I experience though, interesting to see what else happens, Cheers

[Elite Dreamer]

TUESDAY / MAY 3 / 12:30 Like the first two attempts, about 15 - 20 minutes in, I became extremely relaxed, my body begun to lose it's sensitivity and I got a little flustered. I hope to become more used to this experience over time but until then, it is a little weird for me. I have discovered some really relaxing music to play to help me get to sleep. My problem seams to be, at this point, that I am unable to actually fall asleep, no matter how late at night it is. I will try experimenting with waking up at different times in the morning and going back to sleep to try and find the perfect time for me to practice WILDing. Maybe some warm milk will do the trick.

[Mr_Jinsue]

If you've lost sensitivity in your body, you may already be asleep? Just a thought. Cheers