Describe your waking-to-dreaming transition experience

[David Ames]

For me, everytime I enter a WILD, I hear static-like noise and what feels like pressure against my head. Sometime, a body part will tingle or go numb. After that transition, I'll drop in a random setting where I have to do a few RC's so I don't attempt something I can't do in real life. What is your transition like?

[Seeker]

It seems to me that every time is different. It varies from extreme shocks and noises, to mild shocks, to a simple sinking sensation to no sensation at all. I have laid in bed sometimes for an hour waiting for transition to start and it never does. I have awoken in the middle of transition feeling like someone is sticking a cattle prod in my back.

[mongreloctopus]

i'm usually in the midst of a hypnagogic dream and then suddenly i feel myself ripped out and conscious in my bed. my entire body is covered with a kind of electrical buzzing and there is an overwhelming tinnitus in my ears. i can't see anything and when i relax i feel like i am floating very gently upwards. after about ten seconds of floating, POOF i am in a dreamscape.

[wombing]

although i have many different types of sensations/experiences while in SP, the process of transitioning into an actual dream is usually grouped into two general groups. 1. (most rare) i will be in SP (though it won't be prominent, or very intense) and viewing HI. after awhile of passive awareness i find a dreamscene fully formed with myself in it. 2. 90% of my WILDs. i will be in SP, and it will intensify. after passive awareness, i will feel myself 'pop out' of my body like a cork bobbing to the surface of water. i never experience HI in these transitions, but simply feel my dream body detach, open my eyes, and i'm in dreamscape. almost every time i WILD into my bedroom.

[Bosco]

the first and only time i did wild i was meditationg and then i opened my eyes and i was dreaming...no inbetween time it just went from meditating to dreaming

[MartinB]

Usually it just feels like extreme relaxation and a total will to let my body float into the sleep state, but once it was accompanied by about 15 minutes of music and very bizarre and abstract visual hallucinations; colours, shapes, lines, etc. Eventually even detailed 3D spinning shapes with depth. That was pretty awesome.

[TravisE]

I've had a few experiences of going directly into a dream from being conscious, although they don't sound too spectacular (actually, I think I prefer it that way, though ). Basically, I have for some reason woken up in the morning in a semi-asleep state where I had a sound in my ears that sounded like being underwater and/or felt a general numbness in my body. I haven't yet had any HI or hallucinations. I've usually been in sleep paralysis in this state, also, though I haven't always checked for it (since I would have to try to move in order to tell if I'm paralyzed, but that might cause me to wake up, so I usually don't). In one case, I found I was in SP and simply tried to move anyway thinking I could "force" myself into a lucid dream, and it worked--although I still couldn't move properly in that dream. In the other cases, I just lied there visualizing the scene I wanted to appear in, and was amazed at the smooth transition from being an imagined scene to actually seeing it that occurred in seconds. Those dreams were very brief, though. I've only done this successfully a few times, because it's hard to stay in the partially-asleep state, especially since it tends to make me a little nervous, which brings me back to being awake. I have to remember to relax in order to stay in it. Also, I only do it when I happen to wake up in this state, and I don't purposely try to fall into it, and for some reason, I haven't had any more opportunities to try this in a long time. Instead, I've accidentally been doing it in false awakenings, and apparently this technique doesn't seem to work for me in dreams.

[David Ames]

Originally posted by dropout14 the first and only time i did wild i was meditationg and then i opened my eyes and i was dreaming...no inbetween time it just went from meditating to dreaming This happens very frequent to me. The problem is, I'll open my eyes and my dream setting will be the same room I fell asleep in.

[boldtypespark]

I was in SP once, I closed my eyes and opened them and I was looking at a wall, turning around and round, I started to sway back and forth. Was quite fun until later on.

[deepthinkergirl]

Very interesting thread here. I've had so many different waking-to-dreaming transitions. Most often, I wake up in dreamworld and there is some strange sort of sound. The closest thing I can related the sound to is the bell you hear during a boxing match. Other times, I hear the loud buzzing that makes me feel as though my head will explode or something. I've also had a few WILD's that started with loud chanting, and just the other night I had one where the HI's just faded into a lucid dream where I was lying in bed. I was definitely dreaming though because I allowed myself to float upwards. Last week I had one that started off with my head and body shaking/buzzing, then a flash of light was seen to the left. After that I freaked out and woke myself up.