Sorta WILD

[Taosaur]

I just had my first WILD-like experience. I wouldn't say I stayed conscious all the way into sleep (I didn't get the vibrations or HI), but I was conscious enough that when a dream started coming together, I knew what was happening and let it firm up into an LD. I also "set up" the dream by laying down in the dream and going to sleep. I'd never done it before, but it was cool--I lay down on my back, closed my eyes, and almost immediately felt my forehead pressing against a hard, cool surface. I let my forehead slide along the surface (very vivid sensation), then opened my eyes and sat up at a desk in an empty, dark schoolroom, much more solid and vivid than my previous environment. All in all, a great LD just for fun and exploring--I did some flying, some telekinesis, found a mirror that gave me a different hairstyle everytime I looked at it. I was having trouble conjuring anything outright, so at one point I looked down at a paving stone and thought, "I'd like to see a mouse cross that paving stone," as an experiment, and it worked! The mouse started as a vague black shape, then firmed up into a mouse and ran off into the dreamscape.

[AcidBasick]

but I was conscious enough that when a dream started coming together, I knew what was happening and let it firm up into an LD.[/b] This just recently happened to me too. I didn't know whether to classify it as a WILD or otherwise, as I had briefly fallen asleep. What did it feel and look like when you first entered the dream? In mine, I saw a few motionless 'frames' or scenes that appeared in my vision. I slowly tried to work my way into the dream rather then passively watching it. Fifteen seconds or so later I was able to move a bit into one of the scenes, but I felt a bit empty, as though I were missing a body. To remedy this, I tried to take control of someone else's body. I'm not sure if it worked or not. The dream scene changed fairly quickly after that.

[Taosaur]

I guess I did have some hypnagogic imagery--formless stimuli that fluttered between being a few different things, then sort of knit together into a dream environment.