Early this morning, after a short night of sleep, I decided to try a WILD. I must have lay for over an hour and felt like I got nowhere, so I just decided to give up (I was pretty tired anyway). I was in and out of sleep, and during one of the out of sleep phases, I decided to do a reality check. I pinched my nose and tried breathing through it. And to my surprise, I could! I felt awake, though. So, I tried again, and again I could breathe through my nose. I was still laying down in the same position, and nothing about that moment felt like a dream, except for the fact that I could breathe through my pinched nose. I concluded that my hand was asleep, and therefore not pinching hard enough to block the airway (although it sure felt like a firmly pinched nose). A few minutes later, I tried a third time, but this time I couldn't breathe through the pinched nose.

Any thoughts as to what this was? Was it a FA perhaps? Or was it more likely as I concluded...just a numb hand not pinching hard enough? But it sure felt cool!