First ever WILD! How does it compare to your WILDs? What can I do better next time?

For the first time ever, I consciously experienced the mind-blowing transition from the wakeful state to the dreaming state. This was my first WILD! It was so freakin awesome, that I'd like to share it with all of you! I want to know how similar this was to your WILDs, and how to improve my own, so please leave a comment.

After lying awake in bed for almost an hour, I experienced something bizarre. With the rest of my body relaxed, when I relaxed my left jaw to the point where it felt like I was half smiling, I saw what I believed was a moving fan on the left side of my field of vision. I relaxed my right jaw, and saw two moving fans, which slowly merged into one strobe-like overlay. It now looked as if I was seeing the world through a high-speed fan. Then, I must have moved or become excited, and I lost the hallucination.

I decided to try this again, except this time I closed my eyes. I rolled over onto my right side, relaxed my body, and then relaxed my right jaw. I noticed a slight flashing in the right part of my visual awareness behind closed eyelids. I relaxed my left jaw to the point where I felt like I was smiling like a baby and about to drool. I felt it start flashing on my left side, and the flashing instantly merged with the flashing on the right side. My entire visual field began to flash, faster and faster. Along with this flashing there was a high-pitched ringing sound that just got louder and louder. I felt my body get warm and tingly, but tried not to pay much attention to it.

The experience got more and more intense until finally, through the flashing I began to see different images flickering in an extremely fast slideshow. The high-pitched ringing noise was still there, louder than ever. Eventually, I saw the image of a screen with a grayed out video and a play button - it looked like YouTube on a monitor in an extremely dark room with a strobe light in the room, or maybe an old movie that was flickering. The black overlay soon faded away, and I was left with a smooth, vivid visual of this screen. The ringing noise disappeared.

I then realized I must have been paralyzed, and tried to move my right arm (which I could still feel). It didn't move at all and within the hallucination I saw my limp right arm lying there motionless next to me. It was a bit eerie at first, but then I decided to forget my physical body and start trying to play with my dream body. I focused my awareness back into the hallucination of the YouTube screen and then went deeper into it until I felt some kind of dream body. I began to move my non-existent hands and felt them come into existence. Eventually, a dream room began to form around me. I immediately got up out of bed, excitedly went out the door - not bothering to stabilize the dream or anything (probably mistake #1) - saw that my windows were on the left wall instead of the center wall, and then simply dove through the windows and landed outside in the grass in my neighbor's yard (from my old neighborhood).

I stood up and felt a very realistic cool breeze and saw a tree in front of me with it's leaves swaying in the wind. The whole dream scene was incredibly beautiful and extremely vivid. It must have been evening on a slightly cloudy day, but sunny enough for the world to take on a subtle blue hue. As I walked in the grass, I noticed that it was a bit difficult to move my neck to the left. I ignored this issue and decided to jump right into dream experimentation. Recalling a comment I read earlier on the forum, I decided to take my clothes off to truly feel the cool air on my skin and make the dream more immersive!

As I began trying to take them off, I moved my neck to the left and my actual neck ended up moving a little bit. I woke up somewhat disappointed, but still thrilled at what I had just experienced.

It's either that I was doomed to wake up at that time (perhaps at the end of a REM cycle), or that I hadn't stabilized the dream enough to where control of my physical body was out of question. Perhaps what I believed to be full paralysis was only the feeling of extreme heaviness (?). In any case, this was by far one of the coolest dreaming-related things I've done.