Hi there,

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Sorry for the extreamily long post... I'm a bit excited about this whole LD thing
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Back Story:
I'm new to this whole induced LD thing, and to this site. I've been browsing the site for a few days and played around with a few of the techniques, really immersing myself in everything LD.

Currently, naturally, I maybe fully LD a few times a year, and i would love to be in a position where i can go to bed with the intention of LDing and just be able to dream up whatever I like.
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Anyway, last night I went to bed with the intention of doing a WBTB WILD, I knew all the risks and that i was probably throwing myself in the deep end, but i was going ahead with it anyway . i set my alarm for 7am and was in bed and ready etc. by about 1am.

If I have trouble sleeping, usually when a million thoughts are buzzing round my head, I usually count number's in my head to try and clear it and then go back to trying to sleep. The main culprit preventing me from sleeping is usually a song, or a specific part of a song, that I have heard earlier in the day, looping in my head over and over. So i usually try to drain out the song with numbers and i usually just forget about the song.

So anyway, I was having trouble sleeping last night as i was quite excited about my LD attempt, and i had music playing loudly in my head (cascade by the prototypes for any of you that are interested) so i decided to count numbers with breaths, al lot like the common mantra I have seen a lot of people using. After some amount of time, I decided it wasn't working too well and i started to add the 'I'm sleeping' line.

--- Maybe about 10 minutes later i felt my eyelids start to flutter, and vibrations start to settle in, they were getting more and more intense... I started to think "crap... im starting to SP, i'm not supposed to be doing this yet i haven't had any sleep", but i continued anyway and tried to focus on my mantra (which i had left subconsciously going by itself, although it became out of sync with my breathing). So i re-synced it, if you will. Soon i started to feel, rather than see, squiggle type things infront of my eyes, i'm guessing this was some sort of HH / HI thing going on. I kept going with it and eventually it all stopped, vibrations, HH, the works. Once during the vibrations i tried to wiggle one of my fingers very slightly, and managed too, which suggests i never reached SP.

After that whole event i thought i had made some progress, especially as i hadn't intended to LD, let alone WILD before i WBTB. Anyway i re-started my mantra from the beginning and this time, maybe 10-20 minutes into it something completely different happened, i felt as though my limbs were stretching and i was being gradually pulled away from my body, horizontally, in the foot->head direction. It was quite surreal Eventually that all stopped as well and I went back to just being in bed.

Then i re-started my mantra, and yet again vibrations started, but this time i lost conciousnous and wasnt able to wild and fell asleem normally.

I woke at about 4:30am, decided i hadn't had enough sleep to try to wild and easily lost conciousness and went back to sleep.

At about 6:30 I woke again, this time i decided to try to WILD and switched off my alarm. I never managed to reach the vibration stage, and every time I felt I was close to SP / vibration / numbness, a really bad itch started in some random place on my body, and i had no choice but to break the relaxation and scratch the itch. This happened maybe 20+ times before I gave up. A couple of times i tried to ignore the itch and focus on my mantra, but the itch always overwhelmed everything else and i was unable to remain comfortable. Was it my body trying to double check i was asleep or something?

So yeah, i didn't manage to WILD last night, i cant recall any of my dreams, but it was the first time i experienced vibrations and eye lid fluttering as violently as that.

What do you guys think in terms of my WILD progression last night, and tips / advice?