Ok so about an hour ago I went to sleep, I was taking deep breaths through my mouth making a light sound and counting 1,2,3 etc when inhaling. When I was exhaling I was saying to myself, I will have a lucid dream(I read this not 2 hours ago in a tutorial on here), now from what i can gather 20 minutes and 160 numbers in, I got somewhere. Btw, I believe the technique I was trying was a WILD.

At about 156 I saw black and white lines, like an optical illusion sort flash in front of my eye lids. As soon as I saw the lines I lost count of the number I was at, I started counting again but I forgot what I was saying on my exhale and it took about 3 seconds before I almost remembered then I heard a MASSIVE ZAP. As soon as I heard this sound I jumped up and opened my eyes, it scared me. I could feel my arms where sort of numb a bit but I was able to jump up straight away and could move normally.

Did a RC but sadly wasn't an LD


Sorry if none of this makes sense, it's 1:45am and I'm still sort of confused. I'm going to go back to sleep and try this again, if it's possible to do that.

Another question. I can resist the urge to swallow, itch and only focus my mind on counting and saying "i will have a lucid dream tonight", however my eyelids keep trying to blink. Towards the end before this happened I somewhat could stop the blinking happening a lot more frequently but does this make a major impact on being about to LD or not?

I'm still only new to this, it's been maybe 3 days since I found out about LD'ing and I've wrote 2 dreams down in my dream journal already so go easy on me, please.