Thread: couldn't sleep after trying WILD

Hey there natemoo and welcome to the forum!

I'm sure that once you get into practicing lucid dreaming you will experience some better results, i would like to help identify why you felt strange, could you offer any more details, what it felt like so that i could maybe identify the problem?

If you have any other questions please feel free to ask

Hey there,

Sometimes, for some reason or another, like after attempting a wild, or waking up from a lucid dream, I get stuck in what I call a 'shadow zone', meaning I find myself right between sleeping and waking, and I can't really sleep. I feel like sleeping very much, my thoughts can't seem to focus, I keep tossing and turning, but no matter what I do sleep wont come to me.

I've found the best thing to do is just to fully wake myself up for a while. Usually I'll get up, switch on the light, read a little, and then after 20-30 minutes go back to sleep. At that point I'll usually doze off right away.

Hope that helps for you too,

-Redrivertears-

I just tried a WILD and it was scary. I counted backwards from 100 and when I got to 73 all of the sudden my vision grew very dark and I felt this strange burning sensation in my chest and it hurt. It was hard to breath and it was just very painful. I forced my eyes opened and I have been shaking ever since.