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Was this a WILD?
Firstly, let me explain that I've never had about 25 lucid dreams, but never had one via the WILD method, and have never attempted WILD either.
But I had a strange experience this morning. I woke up early (about 9:00 am) as I usually do after a weird lucid dream, and I was trying to fall back to sleep again. I could hear my parents talking downstairs and moving around the house. As I became really comfortable, and my mind began to drift into nowhere, when I suddenly drew attention to my vision, and could see lots of strange blue lines slightly curved lines. They were not faint, they were very obvious, but I got distracted, opened my eyes and moved again. I lost the visuals.
But later, something similar happened. I realised that I was incredibly deep into the process of falling asleep, and the feeling of the bed kind of started to disappear, and I felt like I was kind of floating. It was a very vague feeling, devoid of any particular directional effect of gravity. I started to imagine myself putting my hand down on to the railing of my stairs, and lo and behold, I felt it on my hand touch the stairs. At first I wasn't convinced, but I put my feet down and my other hand, and realised that I was in a dream standing on the stairs in my house.
I could walk around, but was not able to open my eyes to see anything, because they seemed to be locked shut. I could still hear my parents talking, but the source of their voices changed based on where I was in the dream (e.g. If I could hear them in front of me, and turned around, then I could hear them from behind me). Their voices seemed to be coming from the top of the stairs. I could also hear a very loud noise, which sounded exactly like a vacuum cleaner (I assumed that one of my parents was vacuuming the carpet at the top of the stairs).
It didn't last long before I woke up though, perhaps only 2 minutes (the vacuum sound disappeared instantly on awaking, but the voices remained since they were still talking).
Anyways, I was wondering whether this sounds like a WILD? I initially thought that it was, but OTOH, isn't it possible that I could have been dreaming in the first place when I went through the WILD process? How could I tell that a WILD has actually occured when I wasn't actually attempting to do one and had no certainly that I was actually awake? It certainly made for a rather interesting and confusing morning if nothing else.
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If you maintained conciousness during the transition from waking into a lucid dream, then it was WILD. People report many different sensations during WILD. Some experience quite shocking sensations, others just feel that floating sensation.
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But that's what I'm unsure of, that is, whether I really woke up and then went into a WILD or whether I only dreamed waking up (false awakening) and dreamed going into a WILD.
There was nothing unusual to suggest that I dreamed the WILD, but on the other hand, I've read that WILD's are very hard to achieve, and I've never tried to do it and wasn't actually trying to do it this time either, so it's kind of hard to believe that I could've done it accidently and so quickly (must've occured over only about 10 minutes).