Thread: 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.