What happened with WILD?

[BigFan]

ok, so, here's what happened: When I went to bed yesterday, I wore a face mask, well it only covered my eyes. I sat in bed still and tried the WILD technique. So, 1 "I'll remember my dreams when I wake up", 2 "I'll remember my dreams when I wake up", etc.... Sometimes during my counting I would get lost, because, my body was starting to act up. My hands felt really heavy on my chest, my breathing while at first I could hear it, later I was barely aware of it. My feet began to tingle, my mind began to become heavy and I started to hear sounds(beeping) and see some hypno...(sp?) images. I counted my counting throughout and my body did something(can't remember) but after more time, I was spinning, really fast. At this point, I was hoping that I was able to enter the dream state, so, I tried to see if I can makes images in the darkness of my eye lids(I think I had them closed, but, I could be wrong). Funny enough, my ears were working the whole time during this ordeal since I could hear exactly what my family members were doing and saying. Eventually, the whole thing went away, then I turned to my side and slept. My question is, how close was I to actually have an LD and what should I have done next time I reach the same stage? In the morning, I wasn't able to remember my dream at all even though I was counting past 200. I did remember something about a $5 bill and money but that's it Thanks in advance Edit: Forget to mention that for some reason, the sleep mask that I was wearing began slipping, so, it was still covering my eyes, but, the strings that I used to keep it on my head fell a couple of times, not sure the distance but it wasn't much

[Geeome]

From what I know, you were entering sleep paralysis and were getting halucinations. If you had continued to ride it out and ignored all the impulses and itches you got, your body would go to sleep, but your mind staying awake. This would result in a dream, most likely lucid because of the suggestion. Also, I tryed to WILD last night and got to tinglings, then felt like a girl screaming in my ear so I got creeped out and stopped. I was counting like you were, cept I said "I will remember this Lucid Dream" Implying to my sunconcious that I WOULD lucid dream, and there was no doubt about it. Also saying that I would remember it.

[BigFan]

From what I know, you were entering sleep paralysis and were getting halucinations. If you had continued to ride it out and ignored all the impulses and itches you got, your body would go to sleep, but your mind staying awake. This would result in a dream, most likely lucid because of the suggestion. Also, I tryed to WILD last night and got to tinglings, then felt like a girl screaming in my ear so I got creeped out and stopped. I was counting like you were, cept I said "I will remember this Lucid Dream" Implying to my sunconcious that I WOULD lucid dream, and there was no doubt about it. Also saying that I would remember it. Nice, congrats for getting so far as well. My problem was that the spinning stopped on its own and my ears were still working the whole time, so, I was able to hear everything going on in my house. Guess the ears are supposed to keep working, thus, the reason you can hear the alarm clock ringing. I guess then its good news, can you tell me exactly what you repeat? I want a statement where I lucid dream and remember it instead of only lucid dream, because, otherwise, I'll just forget it. Its definitely good news that I am almost there, will try again tonight and see if I can get farther than last night Anyone else wanna add in or comment? Edit: BTW, how was your first LD?