Query About "Practicing" a WILD and the Transition State

**Draxis** · 07-23-2010 11:09 AM

Each night before I go to bed I have tried to WILD. Well, actually that's not true because I don't really expect for it to work. However, I have gotten to SP I think, (heaviness, no desire to move but I can break it if I really want to. Seems more like a mental barrier) and into HP (mostly flashes of images) and then it goes black. Is the transitional state? I then did a reality check by looking at my hands and counting fingers, then looking at the clock, and trying to push a finger through my palm; alas no dream.

Like I said before, I know it doesn't work, but its helped me get in the mindset for what to expect. Its now 6 am and I am about attempt a WILD (large glass of water before bed to avoid using an alarm seemed more natural and more reliable) and am I right in assuming that this "blackness" is what I am looking for? This is where I would do my reality checks, right? Also, the tutorials I have read said that I can open my eyes if I drop into this blackness because its possibly a false awakening.

Any thoughts on this? The practice is just my idea for training yourself, but any information on this "blackness" and transitioning from HP would be much appreciated.

Off to a WILD night, I hope

**AURON** · 07-26-2010 02:37 PM

Could you link the tutorial you're referring to?

**intheworldofnim** · 08-14-2012 01:22 AM

Originally Posted by Draxis

Each night before I go to bed I have tried to WILD. Well, actually that's not true because I don't really expect for it to work. However, I have gotten to SP I think, (heaviness, no desire to move but I can break it if I really want to. Seems more like a mental barrier) and into HP (mostly flashes of images) and then it goes black. Is the transitional state? I then did a reality check by looking at my hands and counting fingers, then looking at the clock, and trying to push a finger through my palm; alas no dream.

Like I said before, I know it doesn't work, but its helped me get in the mindset for what to expect. Its now 6 am and I am about attempt a WILD (large glass of water before bed to avoid using an alarm seemed more natural and more reliable) and am I right in assuming that this "blackness" is what I am looking for? This is where I would do my reality checks, right? Also, the tutorials I have read said that I can open my eyes if I drop into this blackness because its possibly a false awakening.

Any thoughts on this? The practice is just my idea for training yourself, but any information on this "blackness" and transitioning from HP would be much appreciated.

Off to a WILD night, I hope

that was not SP, that wasin't even a semi sleep paralysis state. sleep paralysis is not a mental barrier, when you hit sleep paralysis, you literaly cannot move your limbs. it's so you don't act out in your dreams, if you were dreaming and in the state you said you were, you would have wanted to move and forced yourself to move so no that was definitly not sleep paralysis. what you are talking about is numbness. in that state it makes thingsa much easier for you to relaxe and not be bothered by itching or saliva.