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Not sure what happened
K, so the first time I try a wild this is what happens:
I wake up at 4:30 and lie in bed for awhile, eventually my whole body goes numb. I wait a while. Then it feels like I'm blinking over and over even when I think im not, or it feels like im moving my eyes around like crazy. This goes on and off. I get no hypnagonic imagry or whatever either. Much later, I feel vibrations through out my body and then they stop. Finally, I give up and look at my clock and it has been 1 hour, I think it was to the exact minute.
So I just go to sleep thinking about lucid dreams and I think I might have told myself that I will have one. I have a couple dreams and there is one dream I was thinking about in the morning. I punch someone in the chest because they threw something at me and then everything starts rushing forward. I start rushing forward into a forest and get scared. I try to close my eyes really hard and then open them, because I heard that wakes you up. It doesn't work and right when I'm about to hit the forest I gain control and manage to turn around. I wake up.
So in the morning I'm going over my dreams and I think that the dream I just described must have been lucid because why else would I try to wake myself up if I didn't know I was dreaming. Also I think that maybe I wasn't lucid because If I was lucid I wouldn't have wanted to wake up.
So basically my questions are, what do you think was up with my WILD attempt? Like do you think there was a false awakening somewhere and what was the eye movements/blinking? Also would you say my dream I described was lucid?
Sorry if this is in the wrong section.
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When your trying to define a Lucid Dream, use this basic guideline to help:
When your dreaming, are you able to have the though of "This is a dream.". If so, then its a Lucid Dream. Lucidity mearly implies consciousness. If you are in control of your own thoughts are capable of coming to the realization that your dreaming, then its a Lucid Dream, regardless of the amount of control you have at the time.
Now, about your WILD attempt:
Chances are, you were at the early stages of Sleep Paralysis/REM Rebound, in which you were getting closer to the transition state of being put into a dream, which is why your eyes seemed to be darting around, because thats why they do during REM sleep, aptly named "Rapid Eye Movement". As far as a false awakening, its really difficult to say without more information about your previous dreams. Chances are, you did what I do alot: You get into the WILD state, and even though your close, you can't quite push past, and "wake up" the rest of the way, and then go to sleep.