Thread: Have you ever tried.........

if you haven't done it yet, I would advise you not to. I haven't, but from what I've heard, I could assume that it's not a good idea. Unless you want to have some hypnagogic hallucination scare the crap out of you and possibly cause you to lose what could be lucidity, I would just keep my eyes closed and wait for the dream to appear.

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i totally agree, its not worth it , my first OBE really eralyl scared me i thought i saw a ghost it was the strangest feeling , its just not worth it to get to SP takes me alot of effort

Typically if i've actually gotten to the SP stage my brain is conscious enough that opening my eyes would physically open them and wake me up

oy. Good thing I read this, because tonight when i was gonna WILD i was planning on opening my eyes. the last thing i wanna see is the old hag. ugh.

Unless you want to see a demon walking around your bedroom, standing over you or worse keep your eyes closed.

I thought you imagined seeing demons/ghosts even with your eyes closed?

I actually opened my eyes while in SP because my pulse was going through the roof and THAT scared the crap out of me. I didn't see anything weird and after a few sec the SP ended.

I'm talking about sp in general. I have never tried wild so i don't know.

My eyes flicker open on their own during WILD varieties (DEILDs) sometimes. I don't see anything evil. Most of the time, I'm actually in the dream.

Before I started to learn about LDing, I experienced a moment of levitation once, while I was falling asleep. When I opened my eyes, I saw the ceiling of my room as if it was ten centimeters away!

I immediately came back to my body, and realized that my physical eyes were still closed. My mind had only reproduced the ceiling in a way intended to match the sensory input it was receiving.

A few days earlier, I had read an article about near-death and out-of-body experiences. In some situations, when your brain receives confusing sensory input (like "levitating" sensations), it tends to try to remember the place where you are, and reproduce it. That's why some near-death patients see themselves hovering over their own body.

Perhaps if I had read about ghosts or demons, my brain would have behaved differently.

Originally Posted by ld master

Unless you want to see a demon walking around your bedroom, standing over you or worse keep your eyes closed.

Well... it doesn't always have to be negative. You can see positive things, too. Unless you only think about "dark" things/thoughts.

All I have to say is from all my experiences with SP, the things I've seen are some scary stuff. This still haunts me when I think about WILDing. LOL I'm too scared, so I stick with DILDs just how I started getting my first LDs as a kid.

It's different for everyone- Only ever do what you feel happy doing. If WILD'ing scares you, do what i did- Hang around the forums for a while. A couple of weeks talking to people about Lucidity and it won't scare you much at all!

Have done this before, many times, with no ill effect. However, there is a certain stage of SP where the incapacitation is magnificent, and last time I opened my eyes during this stage I had crazy waking realities that completely f***ed my mind. Nothing scary, just impossible.

Yeah..that happens to be typical..hallucinations once SP hits...As a matter of fact I had that last night...many hallucinations after waking in , and rather disturbing false awakenings...if you ride that out you should wind up in a lucid dream soon enough.

Yeah, this has officially scared me from attempting a WILD. Good 'ol DILDS

Holy crap. After what happened this morning, I just have to post here. So I was exiting a dream, right? And entering another, too, I suppose. So I feel those waves of SP, and that alone triggers lucidity. So I'm waiting for the dream to develop, right? I see a birch tree with yellow leaves against a cloudy background. I try to reach out and touch it...

Somehow, I'm flipped to reality. I'm thinking "Oh, false awakening," and attempt to do a reality check. I can't move! Or can I? It felt like I got up partially, and then flopped back down, but I can't be sure. I tried opening my eyes again, and saw real life. My messy desk... With a miniature cowboy, riding a red velociraptor up the side! There was also a crudely drawn bipedal piggy hopping around on my floor. I kept my eyes open and the odd apparitions eventually went away, and I was awake and mobile in reality.

But still. Holy crap for DEIH (Dream-exit-induced-Hallucinations).

Wow last night I actually had a dream about SP. In the dream I was laying in bed and when I opened up my eyes I was paralyzed and I saw a huge spider on the floor. I know that it was a dream because the room was not mine.

I opened my eyes during SP once, not knowing that it was SP...I couldn't really move or talk and I saw a black figure sitting next to the bed, it scared the shit out of me.