My WILD experience this morning.*Failed*

[JohnnyScene]

I woke up this morning after about 6 hours of sleep and I felt relaxed so I decided to try a WILD. Well it took me about 15 mins to finally be able to just lay still with no distractions, when I finally noticed myself slipping into SP/HI my whole surroundings began to sorta fade then I saw not whole images but you know when you look at some type of black & white picture for a while then close your eyes you see it? Well what I saw was sorta of like that, It was a face with mouth open and pure white eyes and I was unable to distinguish if it was male or female but I suspect it was female. Anyways that image kept flashing past my eyes then I felt my hands twitch and my body slowly get heavier then my eyes just on there own opened and my WILD failed :\ Before anyone asks if it was a FA, No it was not and yes I did RC. What am I doing wrong?and also is that face I saw the supposed[sa-pos-ed] Old Hag? I didn't feel frightened at all, In all honesty when I saw it flash I thought to myself oh look at that I wonder what that is.

[Castles]

I think you were just having a visual hallucination. Which is very common. My eyes open when I'm trying to do WILD sometimes for no reason as well. Not sure why. What is this old hag everyone is talking about and how do I meet her/have sexual encounters with her.

[Robot_Butler]

You were close. Don't give up if something interrupts your WILD. Just go back to what you were doing, and you will quickly slip back into the right state of mind. You might think you are totally awake, but don't be fooled. Sometimes it takes a few rounds of interruption before the dream can really take hold. You bounce back and forth a bit.

[lifeinsteps]

For the record, agreed with Robot_Butler. Secondly, "Old Hag Syndrome" is not literal. It is simply a playful name for sleep paralysis. It gets the name because of an old superstition that a witch would sit on the chest of her victim. When you enter sleep paralysis, sometimes it feels as though you have someone sitting on your chest, and as if a pressure were holding you down. There's not literally an "old hag" involved. You might imagine that there's one if your mind so wills it, but it's just a hallucination created by your mind during sleep paralysis. These visions can range anywhere from color mushrooms, to singing animals, to old hags sitting on your chest. So, yes, technically you might say it was the "old hag" that everyone's talking about, but you may as well just call it "sleep paralysis", because that's pretty much the common name around here. Haha.

[blakethegrea]

When I try to WILD sometimes i get awoken by things that seam sureal, like once i was falling asleep and imagined someone kicking rocks at me and it jolted me awake