First WILD By Accident.. (I Think?)

Yesterday around 10:30am I ran back upstairs to go back to sleep, after only being awake for about half an hour. (Just fed the dog, got a drink etc.) So I get into bed cover with my blanket and slowly drift to sleep..

Then it happens... In my mind what I see is that I'm downstairs in the kitchen... (I'm thinking this is the last image I remember in what I was dreaming about.) Then the dream abruptly ends and I wake up. But everything is looks different all the colors in my room are flashing and I see a glimpse of my body for a split second then back to normal vision.

I try to move my body to roll out of bed ... but I'm not moving!

I then get this feeling as if my soul is leaving my body and now theres a great deal of pressure pushing on my body. (At this point I'm thinking this could be the last moments of my life..)

This is when my vision starts getting distorted... My vision at this moment is split right down the middle one side is perfectly normal and the other side looks like a negative black and white photo image thats stretching towards the ceiling. Now I'm seriously freaked out! So I try to fight it.

Then I start to hear this deep and very loud vibration ringing in my ears. I try to scream for help but nothing comes out, so instead I try to force my body away from this feeling of being sucked out of my body.

Then its over (all in about a few minutes), my body jumps out of bed as I finally regain control of my body and I run downstairs telling my family about how I thought I was just about to die.

I later found this website and realized this may of been my first WILD. But I never knew these could just happen by accident? Can someone please give me some information as to what happened to me that morning? :?

Hey there,

Reading your story, I think the fact that you were very tired caused a disturbance in your particular sleep patterns. Your body or mind likely fell asleep faster then it usually does :)

See when we go to sleep, our body paralysis itself. This condition is called Sleep Paralysis, and it prevents you from acting out your dreams while you're asleep. Without it, you'd be sleepwalking, punching the air, trying to open non-existant doors, or whatever it is that you do in your dreams, and sleep would be quite dangerous to you. So instead the body sort of shuts itself off, resulting in sleep paralysis.

At the same time, dreams begin to appear. No one is quite sure why or how, but at the onset of sleep, you'll begin to see something called Hypnagogic images and sounds, sometimes even feelings. These are like very fleeting dreamimages, without much subtance, though as your body falls deeper into sleep these can evolve into full blown dreams.

In your case, it sounds like you went to bed and fell into a sort of vague dream very quickly (the kitchen), but then your mind woke up very abruptly, without your body being fully awoken yet, and you were still in Sleep Paralysis, as described earlier.

Sleep Paralysis is a strange, and often scary thing to experience, until you begin to understand it. The sensations you were having are all things that many people report when they're in sleep paralysis. Additionally, it's also a state in which those hypnagogic images I talked about tend to become stronger and more vivid, and sometimes even superimpose themselves on your normal sensory imput, which can make it appear as though you're half dreaming, half awake, or even make you seem to see things that aren't there, like people in your room, ghosts, strange sounds, and what not.

You weren't about to die though. It can feel that way because your body is paralysed, but what you experienced is something you go through every time you go to sleep, only usually, your mind is fast asleep and unaware of it. Because the disturbance of your normal sleep pattern, you did become aware of it this time, and consciously it can be very unsettling. But there's nothing to be afraid of. In fact, look around this site, Sleep Paralysis is very often discussed and is actually used by many as a tool to induce certain types of lucid dreams.

Hope that helps!

-Redrivertears-

Wow .. Thank you Red! = ]

Everything you've explained really makes sense now hehe.. Yeah I'm reading through the website and it sounds like if I hadn't fought the Sleep Paralysis stage I could have gone into a Lucid Dream! lol I'll remember this , the next time it happens though :P

Just kind of crazy how after 18 years I finally experienced something like this lol... well now I'm very interested in all this Lucid Dreaming, OOB experiences etc. Can't wait to start practicing it : ]