Basically, where I have been sleeping, the lights are always on, (it's just my bedroom, but I don't bother to turn them off) and I was wondering if DILDs or WILDs are harder to do, or even possible, when the room you'll be in has the lights on?
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Basically, where I have been sleeping, the lights are always on, (it's just my bedroom, but I don't bother to turn them off) and I was wondering if DILDs or WILDs are harder to do, or even possible, when the room you'll be in has the lights on?
Yes they are possible in a lighted room. Although i bet WILDing would be REALLY hard to acomplish in light. DILD would still be completly possable.
I have tried to build up the Reality Check Habits nessacary for DILDing, but haven't yet, so I'm gonna try WILDing for the first time tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by dakotahnok
As long as I can get questions answered... does the Sleep Paralysis cause any severe pain, I've heard it could? If so, would a common pain killer medicine reduce it any? Could I just think it off, say it's not real and have it go away? And are the hallucinations actually scary? Can these be gotten ridden of by thinking they aren't real?
Hmmm i second that question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Azerdi
Hey Azerdi and Codename :) Welcome to DV, first off :)
To answer your first question, if WILDs and DILDs are possible with lights on? Yes... but remember that you are trying to fall asleep (consciously, in the case of WILDs), so the better question from me to you is... can you fall asleep with the lights on?
Secondly, whether SP causes severe pain... well, everyone's different, but it shouldn't. I've so far never come across anyone reporting that they experience pain. For me, it can get pretty uncomfortable though. When I'm in a pretty good SP, I usually feel slightly achy, and I just want to move so badly, but I'm not allowed ;)
The hallucinations are also different for everyone. I enjoy mine, when I get them. I'm very tactile, so I often experience swaying sensations, vibrations and tingling. I also sometimes hear things, which lets me know I'm close to transitioning.
If you have any questions at all, please feel free to private message me with anything :) I'm not very good at accomplishing WILDs yet, but I do lots of DILDs, so I'm more than happy to help :)
Thank you, and dakotahnok, one more question...Quote:
Originally Posted by Serenity
How hard is it, once fully in SP, to get out of it, and how do you get out of it? (Assuming that you can forcefully abort it without waiting to enter a dream?)
If I may answer (since I'm here and all)... SP isn't too hard to break when you're trying to WILD. You can start by wiggling your toes, fingers, tilting your head from side to side... little things like that break SP pretty easily.
I turned off the light, lied in my bed, tried to get comfortable, started the timer/stop-watch on my watch, did one last reality check and closed my eyes to try it.
In less than a minute my legs got all warm and strange feeling, and my eyes started darting all over, it was a very strange feeling, so I sat right up. And well, wrote this. Well, I think I'll try and actually keep going now.
Serenity is right. Just start moving little parts and then go from them.
Now about feeling pain in SP. Well the only "pain" i have ever felt is numbness. And if you have ever had your foot mildly go to sleep then you know what i mean. And pain medicine will not help. Anymore questions just PM me.
I have the same problem...I have to share my house (a sorta shed/granny flat) with my parents and siblings. Who constantly demand to have the light kept on :split: . Its annoying in the fact that i cannot get to sleep easily with the snoring and light combined. And You have at least tried and got somewhere with your WILD attempts no such luck for myself. Keep out the good work. :lol:
To be completely honest though, WILDs are extremely difficult for people who are new to lucid dreaming. I definitely advise working with something like a WBTB/DILD or WBTB/MILD combo, and get a few LD's under your belt before you jump back into WILDs. A very big key to WILDing is recognizing how dreams and lucidity feels. WILDs are this big, mysterious thing that aren't always just seeing a scene in front of you and stepping into it.
I've seen people not even realize they've transitioned, and only recognized that they had done so by recognizing the feeling. Most people's journals that I read, they begin their WILDs from the very couch/bed they are lying on.