Something that was somewhat strange but, more than anything, unexpected happened early this morning. I woke up at 5:45 a.m. to do some last minute review for a test that I had today. The last thing I expected was to have a WILD. I was sitting at my desk and it was still dark out and very quiet. I studied until about 6:40 a.m. and I decided that I would lay my head down on the table and rest my eyes. I covered my head with my jacket to keep out the light and used my folded arms as a pillow. After what I am sure was about 15 minutes I began to get that tingly feeling that I get just before entering the dream state. Fortunately I stayed calm and decided to take advantage of this occurance (Usually when I am not purposely attempting a WILD I just slip into unconciousness and fall asleep). I began to feel like I was falling forward and sinking through my chair. The blackness became a semi-blurry image of my office and I knew that I was in a dream. Since it had been a while since my last LD it took me a moment to remember how to stablize the dream. At first I began floating up to the ceiling. I eventually got my feet on the ground and started rubbing my hands together. My vision was still slightly blurred but the rubbing helped. I began to walk out of my office, not really knowing where I wanted to go. I figured I would just walk out the back door and then take it from there. Before I had taken more than a few steps my cousin slammed a door (in the real world) and yelled somthing to my mom who was just entering the kitchen. My dream quickley faded and I woke up back on my desk. Although the WILD lasted only momemtarily, it was strange to have one without purposely trying. Looking back on the situation, I inadvertently followed all the steps of WBTB (wake, back to bed); I woke up earlier than usual, after about 6 hours of sleep, stayed up for roughly 45 min studying, and then took a nap/ went to sleep on my desk. Anyways I just thought that it was an interesting and unusual experience.
