Trying to fall asleep when I was A kid

When I was a kid I always had trouble falling asleep. I would lie in bed trying to fall asleep and be thinking random thoughts. A lot of the time I would eventually start to have a feeling like my body was I guess the best way to put it is spinning. This would really freak me out and I would try very hard to stop this feeling. Also I remember sometimes hearing things, like I would think I heard my parents watching T.V. or talking in the living room. I would get up and check and everyone would be asleep. Just the other day I finally realized that what was happening was the same steps that happen when performing a WILD. If I had known about LD and the process of falling asleep it would of saved me allot of grief, and I could of had a ton of lucid dreams pretty easily. Did anyone else experience this as a kid?

I did, but not to the extent you describe. I experienced gentle movement, not really spinning. I did hear voices, sometimes speaking in a foriegn language I could not understand.

Wait! That's WILDing?!


I do that every night but I thought that WILDing was like your body shaking...crap I should have known. Well I guess I will just WILD tonight then.

I had simmilar experinces as a kid. I always felt like I was floating and spinning. There is this movied that i watched when i was a kid named "little Nemo" anyways, in the begining of the movie, he woke up and his bed was floating over the city and he was dreaming. I used to just think that mu bed was floating and I was going to my dreams. I had so many LDs as a kid. Someitmes i still try to see if i can make myslef eblvie what I did as a kid, and it wont work. I think its the immginaiton fo children that can let them have LDs so eaisly.

I remember having felt it sometimes when I was younger. It felt like I was... flattening against the bed, as if I was heavy, but didn't feel heavy. If that makes any sense.

I never heard things though.