Thread: Feeling like vomiting after WILD attempt

Hey all. It's been awhile since I've logged in. Anyway, I've found myself with more free time during the day (and night) to attempt lucid dreaming.

Last night I got pretty far. I focused on breathing in and out and soon felt paralysis kick in with slight tingling in face, arms, legs and feet. However, I wasn't able to complete the WILD and got out of bed feeling dizzy along with an upset stomach and the urge to vomit. Has anyone else been in the same place before? Was it my mind just untrained for Lucid Dreaming and feeling sick because of the sensations?

Never heard of that urge to vomit etc connected to Wild attempts DragonSword - maybe you ate/drank something bad...

You could join Sageous's or gab's Wild Tutorials - so you can get help with your attempts

I've only had this happen while taking Galantamine. It may just be that your equilibrium was messed up due to the body sensations.

Originally Posted by DragonSword

Was it my mind just untrained for Lucid Dreaming and feeling sick because of the sensations?

No, it probably was not. I'm not sure what made you feel sick, but there is nothing about the WILD transition that should make you feel sick. In the end, everything about a WILD is the same as simply falling asleep, except that you are witnessing the transition to sleep with your waking-life self-awareness. So, if the attempt made you sick, then you would feel sick every time you go to sleep.

That said, if you get over-involved in the noise that accompanies a WILD dive, you could certainly experience a moment of self-induced disorientation or nausea, sort of like what might happen when watching, say, a roller-coaster ride in a movie. So it wasn't anything about the WILD itself that caused you to feel sick, but by your perception of it... which, I suppose, you could chalk up to an untrained mind, I suppose.

tl;dr: No; by themselves the sensations cannot make you sick, whether your mind is trained for LD's or not. But you can make the sensations important enough to you perceptually that they might become nauseating; and with practice, you ought to be able to learn to ignore those sensations so they no longer bother you.