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I have been doing really well with my WILD attempts. Sometimes I can get SP but other times I cant though. When I try to WILD sometimes my heart beats really fast right as SP is about to hit.(when the wave of numbness swarms your body). How can I stop my heart from beating so fast? I tried to calmy breathe but SP stops and only my feet and hands remain numb. any tips/ideas on keeping my heartbeat relaxed?
Hm. I say use patience. How long have you been trying to WILD? If you keep it up for a few months, this initial physical excitement will die down on its own (habituation).
You could try meditation before a WILD attempt. I highly recommend it. It will make it easier for the body to fall asleep, and, depending on the meditation you use, could serve as preparation for a DILD in case your WILD attempt fails.
I have been having this same problem. I haven't been specifically trying to WILD but as im drifting off to sleep my body starts to slip away but I can feel my pulse throughout my whole body. any help?
Slow breathing or holding your breath (but not for too long) calms your breath. I tried different breathing techniques with what I think is called a stethoscope. Even when you breath in, but slow, your heart is fast, stopping your breathing for a few seconds calms the heart rate.
I have a small ticking clock that I put on my chest and I feel like my heart syncs up with it. Well maybe it's in my head but it always calms me
i get that EXACT feeling. numbness, heaviness, tinglies, racing heart.
i think i might actucaly be a phsycological thing. because i didnt so much feel my heart rate speed up (i think it did a bit though).
i feels more like the heartbeats a really strong, bam bam....bam bam.....bam bam.....smasing against the inside of my rib cage.
but i think this is part of the senses acting funny eg hearing sounds, feeling vibrations
I think I've had something similar with my attempts to get to SP and hopefully jump into a LD after. I wasn't really excited but knew that once SP passes, I'll have a LD. I would take Naturally Lucid's advice and either breath slowly or stop your breathing for a couple of seconds :)
This is exactly what happened to me! I actually looked for this thread that i had seen before to avoid having to do this post but didn't found it.
Anyway, I made exactly the same, I tried calming down the heart beat by controlling my breathing, but then the hallucinations stopped.
Anyway, if most people were getting close to SP at this point, I can understand that I maybe was too. Now I really need to get time to try to WILD :P
Practice until you master it.
focus on breathing
Slow shallow breathing helps. That, and focusing on your heartbeat itself and willing it to slow.
also, i remember once when this was happening. i got the excited hearbeat etc. nothjing hapened.
so i was jsut laying there, and my legs + arms felt slightly numb. then it happened again, but this time i got a lot further, and the third time i was soooooooooo close.
each time the heart beat became less and less of a problem.
if you fail a wild attempt, dont give up for that night, if the SP did not come, stay still and in a couple of mins it will come again, but this time it will be more likely that it will work
It's activation of the sympathetic nervous system, an automatic response to a perceived threat. Trying to cirumvent the effect confirms to your system that it is undesirable, and thus emphasises it.
You need to habituate to it: continue to induce SP, and when such sympathetic activation occurs, do not react. If you continue to do so, you'll eventually habituate to it.
With your hands across your abdomen, using your stomach(diaphragm) to inhale/exhale and try the 7 11 breathing technique:
inhale for 7 seconds
exhale for 11 seconds
if thats too long try 5 & 9 seconds and eventually work your way up to it and go higher if you can but dontstrain yourself.
works by using your para-sympaphetic nervous system to slow your heart, and by placing your hands on your diaphragm just helps to focus on your breathing.