Thread: Strange WILD

I experienced a strange transition to dreaming the other night. It was not typical of how I normally manage to pull off WILDS.

I was lying on my back in bed in the early morning hours doing a combination of reverse blinking and counting breaths to fall back asleep while maintaining consciousness. As I started to fall asleep, I was trying to watch the images that were darting through my head.

I must have dozed off or got distracted, because I lost some time. Next thing I knew, I had the hallucination that I was on my side looking into a kitchen. I was still thinking logically, and felt fully awake. I thought to myself, "This is not my kitchen, its all covered in green tile. And there's no way I could be seeing it from my bed. I should be looking at my bathroom. Cool, I must be dreaming."

Now, I felt as though I was looking into a picture of this Kitchen. Like it was a still photograph, or on a monitor or a television. I could still feel my body lying on my back in bed, and could also feel my dream body lying on my side in bed. It was very disorienting, and I knew I was losing the dream.

I started to really examine the scene. I 'zoomed' my vision in to see the tiniest details. I tried to fix the position of every object exactly where it was, and not let it move as I looked around the image of the scene. I was waiting to feel more stable before I moved or got out of bed. Everything still looked like a painting or a photograph.

Suddenly, I was surprised by a 5 year old Mexican girl who walked out from around a corner in the photograph. She slowly walked to my bedside, put a hand on my shoulder, and said "Daddy". I stood up and was standing in the middle of the kitchen, alone and fully lucid.