Just now, I think I may have had about 10 seconds of lucidity while attempting a WILD. One of the more memorable events is the strong echo after waking. To explain fully; Last night I prepared for a WILD by reading a few chapters out of a book around 1AM to tire myself. Once I became very tired, I turned off all of the lights and sat in a meditative position.

I wasn't able to get very far so I decided to lay flat and continue. Throughout the entire night my body slowly went into the sleep state while I stayed fully conscious. All of my muscles shutdown and froze up, my breath was small and I even started to snore a little!

Finally I started to see geometric shapes which were barley visible in the blackness. I realized that I could manipulate the movements of images and shapes with my imagination and they would react. Although these images were still very dark and faint, some images began to appear randomly, like a tree or a ship.

The sun came up and I had not yet actually went into a full dream state as I still was aware of the outside world. Suddenly I remember snapping into a few hours later and waking up, so I guess I finally drifted off and I remember everything having a strong echo sound. It lasted about 5 seconds or so.

I had a very short fully visual LD this afternoon with the same echo so that's twice in one day. Strangely in two dimensions this time o.O It was like I was doing some computer programming and I could change the size of the 2D images and stretch my vision. As the dream faded, I heard the echo.

Has anyone else recognized this echo after waking? And do you also hear it entering the dream state during a WILD?