Thread: How do you feel when you WILD?

Originally Posted by Fiducio

I have tried three times now. I Feel a very strange almost pulsating, but it's not me, it's everything in my room. Then I feel like I just start FALLING fast. Not like a let go feeling, more like I just got grabbed by the Krakken and dragged thousands of feet underwater in a split second, and it seems to last a long time.

I wake up there...

Went to non-lucid once though...

I've never gotten a WILD to work right. But falling is a very common WILD hallucination. So is being held and pulled under. You've got to just wait through it... then you should in a lucid dream.

Yeah, I got to that point last night, but it's so intense I can't keep focused, I even tried to tell myself it's not really happening.

It's weird, I think I used my dream hands when I was falling trying to keep myself from turning over, but I lost total focus and ended up in a non-lucid again.

I'm almost there. I can taste it.

I have the the "falling / shaked by giant waves / bouncing on the walls" feeling each time I enter a WILD, with various degrees. In this stage I see nothing, but I can "touch" things, like grab my (dream) bed to try to stop it; but it doesn't work, I just spin around instead :p

The last time I tried something else however, which made this stage very short:
In my case, when I separate from my physical body, just after the vibrations, it starts by the hands and arms (I can feel and move my dream hands while still feeling my real head). So, as soon as I felt that my hands had "detached", I wiggled my dream fingers. The rest of my body kept detaching, but it stayed "calm" and I was directly in the dream without the chaotic movements.
I think that immediately asserting control on my dream body prevented it to act crazy. Try that ! (Just be sure that it's not your real finger you move so as to not break the WILD, but the distinction should be quite intuitive).

Thanks MD!!! I am going to try that tonight.

Do my usual, wake up at 4:30, keep lights off, go pee, and go right back to my bed.

Good tips.

I never experianced the endless falling before, but there were WILDs where I felt like I fell off my bed or "dream bike" and it startles me to awake. Sometimes it feels like someone poured water on me.

Originally Posted by Aspartamebraintumor

I never experianced the endless falling before, but there were WILDs where I felt like I fell off my bed or "dream bike" and it startles me to awake. Sometimes it feels like someone poured water on me.

The WILD falling/moving sensations are quite "slow"; if you had a more surprising one (like tripping over something), it would be a Hypnagogic jerk (which can happen even when not trying to WILD)

Yeah, that would be it. I have those often, always have.

But those are more of a "I'm falling and just hit my bed so hard it flew ten feet into the ground past the foundation" kinda feeling.

It starts off slow, but I keep falling and falling faster and faster, like my bed had just let me go. I get that tickling sensation of falling during parts of it too, like it's actually happening. I think I might already be in my dream state here, but I keep losing focus!!!

When I do WILD, I sometimes get feelings of shaking. On my very first WILD attempt, which was maybe 1 year ago, I felt like I was swinging side to side. It was awesome; but the attempt still failed of course.

Now I'm getting to the stages of hearing slight conversations in my head. I heard one the other night; it was a woman talking, but I can't remember what she said.

When i have WILDed the furthest i have got is SP, SP can be scary to some people but don't let it put you off, i found it quite normal and was just glad i reached the stage of SP.

The #1 thing to me is quieting you're mind (I count from 1-10 repeatedly)

To get through the whole feeling literally let go and realize NOTHING can happen to you. (I had to really believe this because I'd always get thrown off by the loud GUNSHOT sound or TRAIN sound)

Get past SP and just play around with you're body:p (Don't MOVE no matter how bad you want too, sometimes it hurts bad and you want to move but don't. An if you do feel such strong feelings when experiencing SP, then do some relaxation techniques)
- Sink down
- Sink up
- Randomly sink up and down
- Think of an image that you perceive, start simple to complex (Nothing sexual that tends to throw me off)
- Sit there and look at the patterns in you're eyes go, every so often try to keep a hold of the pattern
- Finally I sit there and completly let go, usually at this point I'll mix in the feeling as if I'm somewhere else. (I usually act as if my room is 10x bigger, then my bed floating in the air) To me the key is not letting my mind know where I'm at, basically tricking myself to realize my dream

After awhile I'm sucked into the dream which is by far the best feeling when doing that transition, this is usually the point where I either fall asleep if I'm too tired and end up watching my dream or I end up actually becoming lucid, if it's not instantly it usually happens 5 seconds later.