WILDing malfunction?

[FooFightersKid]

last night i attempted another WILD (still no success but gettin' close!) and at one point, i dont know if it was the pot (i smoked quite a bit) or a transitional stage, but i was lying on my back, with my eyes closed for a while, when suddenly i started feeling really really dizzy, as if i were spinning quickly in circles. i felt my pores all over my arms and legs start to kind of open up as if i were in a cold sweat. it felt like i was sweating all over the place when i barely was. i did however see an image of some character in a sumo wrestling position, kind of in a circular ring. again i dont know if that was hypnagogic imagery or just my stoned imagination the thing is i get high a lot, and dont really experience that many images so im not sure. it definitely scared me a little though

[zobey]

That sounds very much like HI but I would suggest not getting high while attempting to WILD. While it does calm you down, it creates confusion like this which can be detrimental to your progress in LDing.

[sluggo]

I used to smoke a lot too. When I was new to it it'd almost be like tripping on shrooms and I'd get TONS of images like that when I'd close my eyes. I used to see crazy cartoons dancing around and all kinds of strange patterns and bizarre scenery and characters...very dreamlike and hypnagogic. Then after a few years of steady smoking when my tolerance went way down I stopped getting crazy imagery like this. You mentioned you get high a lot, so I'm guessing you're at a tolerance where getting high is not anywhere near the shroom-like high of a beginner. In that case, maybe the imagery you saw was caused more by hypnagogia than by weed, but maybe it could be a combination of the two? hard to say. the dizzy spinning pores-opening feeling sounds more like sleep paralysis than a side effect of being high but I've never really had much experience with concious sleep paralysis so I'm not too sure.