Did i WILD, or just think i did?

[hurley117]

So now that I'm off for feb. break, I took a plane to my dad's house in Florida. On the plane, I tried to WILD about 3 times, and fell asleep for a few minutes after each. I was getting some blue hypnagogic "swirls" each attempt. For my fourth attempt, I actually stayed awake, and with the swirls as a backdrop, I was able to slide down little windows of "dreams", much like the ipod touch album viewer. I actually had two of these dreams that looked VERY real, though with no physical sensations. Throughout the dreams I could still choose to be aware of my physical body, ie. stewardesses talking to passengers. Did I actually go into a WILD, or do I just THINK I did?

[slash112]

I'm not entirely sure, but I think you did start to WILD, but did you end up in a dream? Like one where you realized you were in a dream?

[Higurashi]

Well, for one, could you move? And were you lucid in the dreams you had? If not, you did get into a WILD, you just didn't complete it so that you were at a lucid stage

[hurley117]

i did end up in a dream, then when it finished, backed out and moved to another one. the first was blurry, and kept being covered up by some blue swirls, i think they're hypnagogic hallucinations? or am i wrong there? But i understood that i was dreaming, and was telling myself, "clarity now" and doing the dream spinning, which worked. i could also freeze the scene. but now i cant even manage to get the blue swirls :[ heh maybe im just trying too hard edit: oh yeah, it might help to say that i havent been even close to successful at any time other than a nap. also being on a plane, i was sitting in a chair. perhaps ill try that tonight.

[allensig3654]

Seems like strong hypnagogic hallucinations to me. If you entered a WILD, you would be fully immersed in the dream and unaware of your real body and its surroundings.