freaked out newbie

**super_perfundo** · 10-31-2005 05:00 AM

hi everyone, im new here but i've been working on my dream recall for a few weeks. today i tried the WILD technique, just for fun to see if i could do it, and had quite a strange experience. i think i must have drifted off after half an hour or so of watching weird light images half forming in my head, but i was jolted awake by a weird screeching static sort of sound in my ears. i tried to move but i couldn't lift my arms and couldn't speak or scream! for a few seconds i was lying there paralysed and freaking out

for a second i thought i had become lucid, but now i'm not sure...i've heard of sleep paralysis, could that have happened to me??

**DuB** · 10-31-2005 08:34 AM

Originally posted by super_perfundo
i tried to move but i couldn't lift my arms and couldn't speak or scream! for a few seconds i was lying there paralysed and freaking out for a second i thought i had become lucid, but now i'm not sure...i've heard of sleep paralysis, could that have happened to me??

Sounds like that's exactly what happened to you. Sleep paralysis is part of the WILD process, and a far along one I might add... you were quite close! SP (sleep paralysis) is definitely nothing to freak out about... in fact, while WILDing you should embrace it.

As far as the screeching sound, many people report auditory hallucinations in conjunction with the hypnagogic imagery while WILDing, so I would be willing to bet that that's what it was. Either that or it came from the real world.

I recommend doing the same thing again, but next time just relax and go through with it.

**Barbizzle** · 10-31-2005 12:49 PM

Just Like DUb said, you were on yoru way to a WILD. You are fortanute to have this. I never get SP =/. But you can use this to help you become lucid. Teh static you heard in yoru ears was hypnogoic sound, and what you saw was hypnogoic immigry. trhey are the line that you cross to enter into a lucid dream. Just relax and feel good for the experince and you should be fine. Pm me with any other quesitons

**super_perfundo** · 11-02-2005 09:32 AM

thanks guys next time i'll try not to freak out...lol, my first thought was "i'm being abducted by aliens!" don't ask me why...my brain works in mysterious ways...

keep dreamin'
tamlyn

**Gwendolyn** · 11-02-2005 05:48 PM

I think that you're pretty close to your goal of becoming lucid. Don't freak out next time,and I promise everything will be alright. I'm sure you won't regret it. Just remember next time to not become scared.