Thread: Reverse WILD?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.