Thread: is SP really needed to WILD?

Sounds to me like you are too awake. Maybe when you get up, don't stay awake for so long, maybe something like 7 minutes, you need to be able to go back to sleep without too much frustration.

Just close your eyes and picture walking about in a particular scenario or something similar, the idea is to keep your mind conscious whilst your body falls to sleep.

Something that helped me with my first WILD was concentrating on the noise that my dad was making upstairs with his stationary bicycle. I focused on the sounds while my body gently started to get paralyzed. Maybe you can concentrate in a repetitive noise like the ticking of a clock or the birds of dawn? You have to let all worry vanish, when I enter sleep paralysis I could say I feel almost like I had taken a relaxing drug.

I think the kicker for WILDing is that you have to be able to enter REM sleep shortly after having been awake enough to be thinking (no deeper than Stage 1 sleep/hypnagogia). The times when I feel SP vibrations just happen to be the only times (or almost the only times) I fall into REM sleep shortly enough after having been awake or almost awake. I usually pass through Stage 2 sleep, where thinking is minimal, for a while before dreaming, and forget that I was just about to dream.

It's not required, but it usually happens for me anyway. It's just one of those stages that's really hard, and almost impossible to miss if you pull off the WILD properly.

The only way you can really miss SP is if you have a unusually calm episode of it, or slip out of consciousness before it occurs, and become lucid after it has finished.