Thread: What went wrong?

I was lying down on my bed on my back with my hands folded on chest and it was around 3pm. I tried before that but of course my friend called and it was wasted so I gave it a second chance Not been many hours sleep the 2 last days as I have read about LD day and night. Actually I decided to start dream journal a couple of weeks before I tried WILD but somehow I could not wait. I have usually had strong memories of my dreams and wanted to check it out, at least for some kind of meditation and believed I could reach an LD.

After around 10-15 minutes without moving a finger I got strange and floating objects behind my eye locks which I seen before when I get tired. After that I got the feeling that you fall. The same feeling when I get before I sleep sometimes. Then my body got really heavy and the scenes behind my eye locks got more intense and sometimes showing parts of demon faces or whatsoever. Then my mind was swinging in circles and then it felt like my whole body was vibrating. My heart was beating heavily. I did not see anything but I felt a shadow sneaking to the side of my bed. But I kept calm and focused and at that time I was already counting 1-100 that I was dreaming. Suddenly I felt a strong force that kind of pushed me below of the bed and I felt surer that I would enter an LD. But then it all was suddenly fading and I did not know what to do. Kept my eyes closed for some more minutes and did some RC but no LD for me.

What went wrong here? I have read a lot about people’s experiences the last two days and I feel I only missed enter the LD. Even it was kind of scary sometimes I remained calm during the whole “session” and focused on my breath. I understand that WILD should be done after some hours of sleep but I anyway felt so close here. I tried several times after this “session” but I could not focus like the first time.

Thanks for a nice forum and believe I am getting obsessed by this. And I also believe I can handle this with time. Or better, I know I can

Again a case of transitioning.
It is extremely difficult to do WILDs, you have done very well here.
You need to relax and not be excited, and this can only be achieved by doing to so much that you arnt bothered by the effects of transitioning. (IMO)
Good luck and practice!

Thanks Arch,

I was surprised over myself that i could keep so calm during all this. But I also feel sure that i will sucseed later when I came so far at my first try after two days. Have to work on that transitioning.

Arch,

I understand it is different for each people but how does the transaction from SP to dream feels like for you? Do you have to catch it somehow or does it just come naturally? Different from each transaction you had?

At some point in the end I saw a kind of a tunnel with light in the end but I could not reach it. I was probably too excited at that moment and therefore I failed.

I am in Asia and it getting late

Originally Posted by Hanumana

Arch,

I understand it is different for each people but how does the transaction from SP to dream feels like for you? Do you have to catch it somehow or does it just come naturally? Different from each transaction you had?

At some point in the end I saw a kind of a tunnel with light in the end but I could not reach it. I was probably too excited at that moment and therefore I failed.

I am in Asia and it getting late

Relaxation deffinetly, ive heard some people can like force there HH or visulize themselves going into the dream. This is not the case for me, I have to relax so much that I just slip into the dream.

Thanks again for your answer,

I guess i failed with the relaxing so have to improve on that. Must be a wonderful feeling to slip into the dream. Then have to try stabilize it which I will read on. But now Norway - Iceland and then sleeping and hopefulle some good dreams at least.