Possible WILD

Hey everyone,

I haven't posted here in many years but I had an experience this morning which warrants it.

I woke up with sleep paralysis and used it to my advantage to slip into a lucid dream. I closed my eyes, kept thinking of dream thoughts while trying to move my body around as soon as I could feel my hands clapping, I knew I had my dream body and it would be safe to open my eyes.

But how do I know if I was truly awake to begin with? Is it possible that I was just dreaming of being awake with SP? Later I had a false awakening where I saw the clock as some weird time and felt paralyzed, so I realized I may not have accomplished a WILD after all.

Will SP "feel" more dreamy than a waking state? Are WILDs sometimes not hyper real?

Congrats on the successful WILD!

Sometimes it can be tricky to decide when you're awake or not, but generally if you can hear the ambient noise you usually wake up too, you're awake. That's how I judge it, anyway.

I'm don't think SP feels any different whether you're dreaming or awake. WILDs sometimes are not hyper real.

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Originally Posted by dolphin

Congrats on the successful WILD!

WILDs sometimes are not hyper real.

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What makes some WILDs hyper real and others not? Are there any factors that make it more likely to be hyper real (such as induction method or time of night) or is it just random/luck?

My WILDs are not necessarily more realistic than my DILDs. I think that is just a myth propagated by people who feel that that is the case for them, and apply it as a universal standard. As for whether or not it was a WILD, hard to say (I've had the "fake" WILDs before). But it sounds like a WILD. Regardless of whether it was or wasn't, you still had a lucid dream!