First successful WILD attempt and I heard my own heartbeat
Setting: I was in my bed, I had gone to sleep at about 2 AM and woke up around 8 thirty. I layed still for a while and then realized that nonsensical thoughts were flashing through my head like I was about to go to sleep/dream. So I decided, ok, why don't I try to WILD or at least fall into another dream?
I layed really, really still and let the weird thoughts continue to rush through my head, but I kept myself aware of them. I stopped them every once in a while to question them, and all of the weird thoughts were disconnected and made no sense. (By the way, this is like Hypogenic Imagery to me, although I don't see anything, I just think stuff.)
For the first time I started to actually go straight from the real world into the dream world. I was at school, in a classroom with some friends and some other classmates. I was concious of the dream, but I didn't have any control over it. The dream was very, very unstable, my eyesight of everything was horrible, i only caught slight images of where I was and what was going on. i was very disoriented, needless to say.
My friend had large bottles of flavoured liquor (I had bought some for a cake I was making earlier in the week). I wanted to try some, because after all, this was a dream, so I started to walk towards the coffee flavoured one he had just set down. However I was losing sight of the dream world and by the time I got to it, somebody else had already picked it up and moved it. I got very frustrated, and forgot about ways to stabilize the dream. I turned around to look for it and found it again. I stumbled towards it, and all around me people were talking and laughing, and picked it up and opened it. I took a sip of it and gagged. i looked down and it had turned into some disgusting white stuff with a terrible odor and flavour that I was sure I had seen before, but I couldn't place what it was. It left a weird residue in my mouth. I suspect it was made of rice, maybe something my Mexican friend had offered me once.
Then I woke up, but I was groggy and determined to get into a full lucid dream for ONCE. I didn't even budge, I just let the weird thoughts go through again and closed my eyes.
Images of the same classroom swam through my head, and the noises were muffled. I tried to "jump" into it fully by imagining myself IN the classroom. I was very confused and sensed that I didn't have much time. i tried to separate the feelings from my bed from the feelings from the classroom. At I felt my limbs on my bed and pushed that away, then I felt myself standing in the classroom. I envisioned the classroom again.
I began to feel the feelings from the real world go away and I got really excited. Then all of a sudden, i heard four EXTREMELY loud, rhythmical beats pound in my ears. I thought my mom was in my room messing with something and got angry, but then I realized, how could somebody walking around make that sound? it was directly in my ears, and it was muffled and distorted. when i woke up I realized i was hearing my own heartbeat! Why was it so loud? Then I woke up.
I apologize for the loooong explanation. Does anybody think this counts as a successful WILD?
