Hey guys - earlier today I tried having a nap to attempt a WILD since I only got like 5 hours of sleep last night. I got pretty far but still no success, but one weird thing happened which I kinda feel like got me closer than I've been before.

I was waiting for the sleep paralysis "feeling" to come back after I slightly shifted position and it did within seconds. Only this time, and I have literally no idea why, I had a different sensation. I felt the pillow against my face but it almost felt like I was laying at the bottom of a pool or something and could "swim to the top." So I laid there and this idea just popped into my head, and so I kind of imagined my body "swimming" up and up and up and eventually I could have very well believed I was floating a few feet above my bed if I could see anything. The thing is I didn't want to open my eyes because I was afraid I'd open my real eyes and wake up (and I even had a very brief, but pretty realistic vision of what it would have looked like if I was really "swimming" in the air above my bed). After that brief visual I was sort of jolted back into my physical body and was back to square one.

Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Or could anyone give me tips on what to do if I get this again so that I may have a successful WILD?

Thanks for reading