WILD questions

Okay, so I woke up 4:30 am last night, and moved around for about 15 minutes. I tried doing a WILD. I basically visualized and "watched" a football game in my mind :). As the time passed by, there were like "transitions" in my head, like something's pushing you inside. I almost fell asleep, but just tried and watched the game. Next thing I know ... BOOM!!! I was at a store near our house, lucid. I tried an RC, checked weird things and I saw an upside down house. I thought "This must be a dream...... If so why do I hear my mom talking on my outer ears?" (that was a random thought LOL).. I'll post this in my dream journal soon.

It was fantastic. The peculiar results were many. First, I didn't remember undergoing SP, nor the hypnagogics. While trying to WILD, I also felt the vibes, and it was addictive. When I woke up, I had this massive headache. I don't know if it's normal to WILD without SP, so I would like to know the reasons :).

By the way that was my first WILD!!!!! Wooooot!!! I was about 75% lucid there, I think.

EDIT: If you think this is in the wrong place, kindly move it to the proper place :)

SP is commonly associated with WILDing but in no way needed. Staying still for a while is usually the cause of it though. I would of said your visualizations were the HI. As for the headache, I don't know. Third person I heard this happen too.

Anyways, congrats!

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Originally Posted by sunsetzero

It was fantastic. The peculiar results were many. First, I didn't remember undergoing SP, nor the hypnagogics. While trying to WILD, I also felt the vibes, and it was addictive. When I woke up, I had this massive headache. I don't know if it's normal to WILD without SP, so I would like to know the reasons :).

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Congrats!!! A person is not necessarily ever going to experience SP and can still be a lucid dreamer and a WILDer. SP is simply one way to do it, or even just one way to lay in your bed paralyzed and not do it. You don't need it to WILD, it's just a method that some people who naturally suffer from ISP use and other people induce SP to use. There are other methods too, like VILD and HIT and just doing little mental things to keep your mind awake.

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Originally Posted by sunsetzero

As the time passed by, there were like "transitions" in my head, like something's pushing you inside. I almost fell asleep, but just tried and watched the game.

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That would be your hypnagogic hallucination ;) They're not necessarily going to be just sounds and images. Just like your body can get that fritzy vibration feeling, this weird feeling in your head is another type of HH. I know exactly what you mean, too. I get that feeling when I attempt to WILD.

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Originally Posted by sunsetzero

If so why do I hear my mom talking on my outer ears?"

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Since you said that was a random thought I don't know if you actually were hearing her or not or just had some dream thoughts intruding. But it's definitely possible for outer stimuli to bust into your dreams while you're asleep. This is the idea behind the EILD technique. If it happens in your dreams, try something like yelling or singing and listening to sounds in the dreams to kind of drone out the RL stimuli and focus on the dream instead.

To hellohihello: Thanks! And I still don't know why the headache was there.

To Shift: As expected of you Shift, you really put your heart into your replies :D. Counting my breaths make me wide awake, so I moved into using visualizations. It just doesn't work on me.
By the way, I literally hear her voice, talking to my brother. But I just ignored it, because of my excitement and continued LDing.

WILDs really are the key in lucid dreaming. And with those replies I'm getting more motivated in WILDing :D.

I wouldn't call WILD the key, just a way to do it :tongue:. But, good luck :D