Thread: Almost Wild?

Originally Posted by snackpacks

Hey everyone, I have just recently started to try lucid dreaming. I have had only one so far but it was very short only a couple seconds. But earlier this morning I think i was very close to having a WILD. I need your opinions to see if i was as close as i think i was to attaining lucidity.

After waking up this morning i stayed up for about an hour and then went back to bed. I tried focusing on relaxing my whole body to make it feel like my body was not even there. After lying there for about a half an hour trying to get back to sleep, I started seeing all sorts of crazy colors moving in every direction and my eyes started fluttering which i could nto control. I started seeing images but only for a split second each. I feel like i was close to LDing but i got excited and my heart rate went up causing me to wake up.

Does this sound like i was close to WILDing and does anyone else have a problem with there heart rate going up because they are excited and if so what do you do to relax?
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Yeah man, sounds like you were pretty close to WILDing . I've been there a couple of times. The images you were getting were hypnagogic imagery. These images, and sounds, if you get any, are the gateway into your lucid dream.

When you get these, just try to stay calm. If you really want an LD badly, remember that getting excited will just hinder your progress.