Thread: WILD'ing Question

Originally Posted by pinacoladaxb

One more thing. Can I move any muscles at all? Specifically, can I move my tongue and can I swallow?

When it comes to your body: remain absolutely still. Im sure you can move your muscles before you enter SP, but that might only delay the completion of SP, so my advice is to not move at all.

Now, when it comes to moving your tongue/swallowing, I cannot provide much info on this seeing how I myself, am struggling w/ keeping these parts still. I take it that you sometimes feel the need to swallow when attempting WILDs, this is quite common among WILDers, however I cannot say for sure on whether or not this delays a WILD. But it does seem to do so in my case.

Yeah, that always ruins my WILD's i try to keep from swallowing but i cant ><

Everybody says it's much more difficult to WILD right at bedtime without prior sleep, and I still haven't had what I've officially considered a WILD (I usually do try to WILD when I go to bed), so I had a question about that. Where in the process of WILD'ing is there extra difficulty if you haven't slept a few hours beforehand? I'd imagine you might be too alert and awake, but specifically, is the actual problem, because of this, an inability to enter sleep paralysis? Or is it something else making it more difficult? I've never (intentionally) entered sleep paralysis, so I was wondering if maybe the reason I haven't been able to get in it was because of the time I've been attempting to WILD, and if that's what's getting in the way of it. Thanks!

Trying to WILD without prior sleep is a waste of time. It can be done but much more difficult. You may be able to keep your waking self together up to the point of entering the vibrational state and you may even project but the chance you would remember anything is fairly low.

All you need to do is to get some sleep to dissipate the build up of low delta activity in your frontal lobe and you are good to go. You may feel groggy and come up with ten and more reasons to just crawl back to bed, but if you resist and get yourself fully awake you will have a lucid dream.

Originally Posted by baseballmk92

Everybody says it's much more difficult to WILD right at bedtime without prior sleep, and I still haven't had what I've officially considered a WILD (I usually do try to WILD when I go to bed), so I had a question about that. Where in the process of WILD'ing is there extra difficulty if you haven't slept a few hours beforehand? I'd imagine you might be too alert and awake, but specifically, is the actual problem, because of this, an inability to enter sleep paralysis? Or is it something else making it more difficult? I've never (intentionally) entered sleep paralysis, so I was wondering if maybe the reason I haven't been able to get in it was because of the time I've been attempting to WILD, and if that's what's getting in the way of it. Thanks!

Sleep paralysis happens during the onset of REM sleep and the REM stage is one of the last stages of sleep, so going into it right at bedtime is difficult for your body. It wants to go through the other stages first. After 5-6 hours of sleep you enter your longest REM stage of the night (if you get the basic 7-8 hours of sleep a night) so entering sleep paralysis and going into a lucid dream is much easier.