As I am posting this, I have just woken up from my first (almost) true W.I.L.D. attempt. I have decent dream recall and always found the details of my dreams to be very interesting, but it seemed as though I would never get to have a lucid dream. The problems were my sleeping habbits. With the start of summer vacation, I've been getting the proper amount of sleep for two weeks, and my first W.I.L.D. attempt did not go too badly.

After sleeping on and off for about 12 hours, and waking for another 12 I attempted a W.I.L.D. dream. I started going through standard sleep paralysis, trying to follow the instructions as well as I can remember (I've been attempting this every night even though I'm never prepared.) and I felt paralysis, my muscles spasm, and a loss of balance. The only thing that kept me grounded was the sound of the fan and the mattress spring jutting into my face. I stopped noticing some minor details in reality, like when the dream catcher seldom chimed, and the headlights passing by my window. The lights that burned into my retina throughout the day started to take shape with my imagination, swirling around and occasionally turning into faces. For some reason a table that I remember fondly (back story is too long) appeared to be standing in front of me: an image I didn't intend to create. When I thought about why it was there it disappeared. I was still stuck to reality by the sound of the oscillating fan and the mattress on my face.

I stopped feeling the fan and my hairs then seemed to be moving on their own, I imagined a spider crawling up my arm but told myself it wasn't real. Time must have been moving very slowly, because it seemed like a while before the fan turned to my face. I felt the hairs on my face move, and I figured that I had to knock something like a bug off, again. It's not real, I told myself, but I thought, What if I'm about to get bitten by a mosquito? After that I felt a bug bite my face, harder and harder until I woke up and pulled at my face, but the bite was just imaginary. What was this? If I imagined a man sawing my arm off, would I feel the most intense pain I can imagine, and wake up ready to fight for my life? How can I prevent this, and tell real pain and discomfort from the dream kind?