Thread: Near-WILD experience at school

First, some backround...

These last two days I have gotten little sleep -- four hours Sunday night and five six hours Monday night. I learned about lucid dreaming about two weeks ago. I started a dream journal, but after four days of writing became tired of doing this and stopped (I had good dream recall before learning about lucid dreaming). I also started doing many reality checks, but as time passed I've done less and less due to forgetting. I've tried doing a WILD a few times, but without success. Either I simply fall asleep, or I cannot relax enough to even get to the point of falling asleep.

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Today in my second period at school, I set my head down on my desk and went to sleep. I was faintly listening to the teacher while beginning my nap. I remember sometime during the 25 (roughly) minute nap I remember my left leg twitching. The strange thing is this. Sometime during my rest I heard a whisper saying "Wake up...". It was pretty faint and sounded much like the whispers your hear in movies and such, drawn out, quiet, mysterious. The sound seemed to come from the right. I thought it was my friend sitting to my left trying to wake me up, but I ignored it and continued to rest. Then, moments after, I heard another whisper, this time coming from the left. It sounded just about the same as the first whisper, just more feminine than the first. It also said "Wake up".

This time, I actually awoke though. I was completely conscious, but was under heavy sleep paralysis. I couldn't move my arms, my legs, my head -- I don't remember if I could even open my eyes or not (It was early in the day so I don't remember exactly what happened). It took around 15 seconds before I was actually out of paralysis.

I turned to my left and asked my neighbor why she tried to wake me up. She just looked at me, confused. I told her I heard her say "Wake up" to me. Just more confused staring. She said she never said anything to me during my nap. And that's when it hit me -- I had nearly succeeded WILDing, without even attempting it.

Note: This wasn't the first time I had had sleep paralysis. Around two weeks ago, the day after learning about lucid dreaming, I had sleep paralysis in the same class.

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This is my question. Was I actually, in a sense, WILDing? Also, if so, is there a way I can replicate what happened during class, and try to do the same at night when I actually attempt to WILD? It seems a bit coincidental that I had somewhat WILDed in class, just after learning about it and attempting to do it myself at home.