Was this the beginning of a wild? (updated need tips)

[Danski]

Last night as i went to bed at 11:30 i just laid on my back with my arms over my head (trying a new technique to become lucid). but i can't sleep when i stay still so i was just laying there with my eyes closed for ages, then i swear i heard a bird tweeting, from then on either i imagined hearing the bird or i could just hear it, i cant fully remember as it now seems faded. after a while i was sure i saw colours in the corners of my eyes, i began to concentrate on my breathing and felt my hands inbetween my toes, but then i realised that my hands were still above my head. after that i lost concentration and went to sleep normally. was this the beginning of a wild or just my mind playing tricks on me?

[Alric]

Well your mind plays tricks on you when you start to fall asleep. So yea it is the beginning of a wild.

[Seeker]

Yes, that was hypnogogic imagery among other things. If you could have held it for a little while longer, the vibrations should have started.

[Danski]

as i say i cannot remeber it totally but now you mention it i think i recall my left shoulder either going numb or shivering

[Umbrasquall]

Yeah. HI is when you see swirls of color or random images in front of you. Sounds another aspect of HI and the beginning of a WILD.

[Elephantman]

So that is HI that I see I was wondering about that. And was that an accidental WILD I had? A vision of a doorway and a instinct to wak thru into an LD. I was not atempting anything at the time. I saw no vorxet and felt no sleep paralysis, just HI, the doorway and then I was thru into an LD. how would you class this experience?

[Danski]

this morning it happened again, i was just lying in bed at about 7 thinking about anything then suddenly a firework sort of thing appeared made up of yellow and red circles. my whole body went tingly which was scary at first but then it became comfortable, i think i may have been paralyzed, im not sure but when i realised it was a wild i lost concentration. anyone have any tips for keeping concentration and having a wild quicker

[Dragon]

well i gotsa few tips for wilds/lds and a few questions. 1. I find wakin up after 5-6 hours o sleep and then stayin up for half hour wrks real well(not my invention lol). Ive had all 3 of my lucid dreams like that. Also, drinkin sumthin or eatin sumthin with caffine helps. 2. once the vibrations start in a wild, what happens after that? ive never got past the vibrations, and ive just eventually gave up several times, so ive never had a wild.

[Danski]

i think after the vibrations start in a wild solid shapes appear and you slowly move from being concious into an ld. would you reccomend having caffiene when i wake up after 5-6 hrs of sleep or just before i first go to sleep

[MonkeyElk]

I've had 5 WILDS in since last thursday, so in the past 7 days. I think i might have a natural talent for it, just never new I did until now. I sleep about 5-6 hrs like everyone else, and wake up and either read posts on here, or read a dreaming book while awake, and maybe drink a lil something.. Maybe a 1/4th of a can of soda, no more for me. Also take melatonin at night before bed. sometimes it takes me a while while going back to bed before i start to LD but i always get there. I can start to feel my physical body and my dream body seperate from each other. Today while I was falling asleep I was moving my dream body like I was running and the image of my arms moving out in front of me got clearer and clearer in the blackness of my eyes until I could see my arms in the dream and became Lucid. The other day swaying my "head" back n forth, it was more of a sensation of moving it back n forth, and it helped me move into lucidity. I can basically do this every morning if I wanted to, but the past few days i've been too tired to get up and try. ONly problem is they are pretty short, and I wake back up easily.

[pcmsurf]

yeah sometimes when i feel like i can fall asleep quickly without having slept previously i kinda without concentrating slip into a mini daydream but its more like a dream because i see actual scenes like in a real dream then i think about it and it goes away