Reverse WILD?

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01-10-2006, 05:03 PM
Acosell

Reverse WILD?

So last night I had the closest thing to a Lucid dream I've ever experienced. I was having a regular dream, then I suddenly had a false awakening. I said to myself "Wow, I was dreaming..." Then immediately I said "Wait a minute, I'm STILL dreaming!" As soon as I said that, everything went black, and I was propelled forward at a high rate of speed. I heard a sound thats similar to the starship enterprise going to warp, and I couldn't move. It was a little scary, but then all of the sudden I heard another noise, had a really strage feeling then I could see again and I was in my bed, and I had awoke for real.

Are these things anything like what happens when you WILD only in reverse?
01-10-2006, 05:20 PM
Seeker

Interesting. You should have already been in sleep paralysis, so should not have experienced any sensations already associated with WILD.

Perhaps what you experienced was part of the dream? I have dreamed that I was WILDing before.

Sorry you had to wake up from your false awakening. I would have been interested in reading what happened when the sensations finished.
01-11-2006, 03:17 AM
TravisE

I think I've experienced something sort of like that, though not quite as dramatic. This was one of the first nights that I had discovered DreamViews (last month) and was kind of excited and nervous and having a lot of trouble sleeping for a few days. At some point in the morning I had a vision of some windows on the monitor of my computer, and I saw my audio player program with a digital time display. I tried doing a reality check by blinking my eyes and seeing if the number changed. When I looked at it the second time, I realized that I forgot what it said the first time and had to try again. The third time everything was gone and all I saw was a dim whitish color!

I immediately became lucid, but then I suddenly became aware of myself lying in bed and my whole body felt kind of numb, and there was sort of a ringing in my ears similar to what it sounds like when I yawn. (Strangely, I had had a similar experience earlier that night after I had been asleep for perhaps a few moments.) It started to sort of go away, so I decided to relax and try to focus on it a little, then it started coming back. But then it started feeling kind of prickly and uncomfortable, which distracted me, so it faded away and I was fully awake.

I don't know whether I was under sleep paralysis those two times, since I didn't try to move when it happened.
01-11-2006, 03:31 AM
wombing

as seeker said, it is possible to dream of WILD like effects, but as this sounds like your first experience with that sort of thing, i doubt you dreamt it (as you would have nothing to base the feelings/sounds on except reading).

i'd wager it was similar to the same sorts of things you'd experience while 'going in" to a WILD.

i've had a dream where i was walking in the snow, and tried to do a reality check. as soon as i started to, i felt my body in bed vibrating (a typical WILD effect for me), and for a couple seconds i could feel myself in both the dream and bed. i'd wager something similar happened to you.

and other times i have felt myself rush back into my body when i start waking up from a short lucid dream.

oh, and the 'prickly' feeling was almost certainly sleep paralysis reasserting itself. next time try to stay still without thinking about waking up, and there is a decent chance you'll be able to re=enter a lucid dream.

some proficient lucid dreamers can have a dozen or more lucid dreams a night by doing this. each time they wake up from a dream (lucid or non-lucid) they stay absolutely still until the prickly feeling (sleep paralysis) sets in again, and then re-enter a lucid dream.
01-11-2006, 10:27 PM
TravisE

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Originally posted by Asher
as seeker said, it is possible to dream of WILD like effects, but as this sounds like your first experience with that sort of thing, i doubt you dreamt it (as you would have nothing to base the feelings/sounds on except reading).

i'd wager it was similar to the same sorts of things you'd experience while 'going in\" to a WILD.

Yes, I've had no \"real\" experience with WILD so far, as I don't feel ready to try that sort of thing on purpose yet. I've mainly been trying the HILD method instead, and have had a few interesting lucid dreams in the last few weeks.

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i've had a dream where i was walking in the snow, and tried to do a reality check. as soon as i started to, i felt my body in bed vibrating (a typical WILD effect for me), and for a couple seconds i could feel myself in both the dream and bed. i'd wager something similar happened to you. [/b]

It does seem like I was semi-aware of my body lying in bed during that dream, though I can't remember for certain.

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and other times i have felt myself rush back into my body when i start waking up from a short lucid dream.[/b]

I've never felt myself rapidly moving toward my body at the end of a dream so far; I just sort of \"teleport\" back to my original sleeping position, so to speak.

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oh, and the 'prickly' feeling was almost certainly sleep paralysis reasserting itself. next time try to stay still without thinking about waking up, and there is a decent chance you'll be able to re=enter a lucid dream.[/b]

It could be a possibility. I later had an experience similar to this, except I didn't feel any numbness or any unusual sensations, just the strange ringing sound in my ears. I was just lying there with my eyes closed, but I discovered that I was paralyzed, and tried moving and getting up out of bed anyway to see if it would put me in a lucid dream. It did. But it looked just like I were moving around in bed for real, so I wasn't sure at first if it was a dream or not.

I could only move for about a second at a time every now and then. I finally managed to roll over and look at my watch. The numbers looked unusually blurry and indistinct, so I concluded it was a dream. I spent the rest of the time trying to roll myself out of bed, assuming that once I was out of bed I'd be able to move freely again. I didn't manage to fall out of bed, but when the dream ended, I was suddenly back in my original lying position that I was in when I discovered the sleep paralysis had taken place--so I know I hadn't moved my physical body.