Oh mon dieu! Why is trying to have a WILD going out of wack for me?

**R054** · 06-23-2011 08:25 PM

Well I recently just got back into lucid dreaming after about a year long hiatus and I used to be really good at WILDing. But I've had some random lucid dreams throughout that period and I thought going back at it would be a piece of cake but it's not.

Anyways, when I used to WILD, I would just lay in my bed for a while, then go into sleep paralysis that would last for a few short minutes then the next thing I know, everything is silent and still and I know I've entered a dream. So that stillness and silentness was the cue for me to open my eyes (not my physical eyes) and I would stand up from my bed and do whatever I wanted to accomplish if I reached a WILD. *sigh* For eg. my first one was that I ran out of my house, gave myself a jet pack and flew to an island, then walked on water, then flew some more and then lost control and fell into the water in where the impact felt so real I woke up!

So I tried to WILD recently and I did the usual, lay in bed, went through sleep paralysis but something was off. A dream was forming and I could see and feel everything happening but I couldn't control it or see myself in it physically. I dreamt about something back in the medieval times and was observing the battle of a bunch of knights and I could the feel of the wooden entrance of this castle being lowered down. I wanted so much to be part of the dream somehow but I couldn't and it still felt like sleep paralysis to me because once it stopped, everything was still and silent but I just knew I wasn't in a dream anymore. I awoke to find myself in my bed disappointed :'( What just happened there? I mean, I did WILD kind of right? And a whole dream just passed through my eyes.

What should I do??? Oh and thank-you for taking the time to read this! I really appreciate it!

**Mzzkc** · 06-24-2011 11:16 AM

I don't suppose this has happened to you multiple times?

As it is, it could be this is just an outlier for you; strange things do tend to happen every so often while LDing.

It's also possible what you experienced was just some vivid HH, which seems likely to me given your description.

Either way, I wouldn't worry about it too much unless it becomes a recurring issue.

**KingYoshi** · 06-25-2011 03:50 PM

It seems to me like it was just some very vivid HI. A lot of times when I am WILDing, I will see full blown dream scenes similar to what you described. You may have been teetering on the edge of the dream state. I think if you would have stayed calm, relaxed, and not tried to do anything, you would have completed the transition into the battle scene. Most of my full blown dream scene hallucinations aren't as cool as your though

. Mine are generally walking on a side walk scenes or watching a city from the clouds scenes. Stuff like that.

**R054** · 06-26-2011 03:28 AM

Mzzkc:

It actually happened about 4 times times (not consecutively). Is that considered multiple?

But I'm going to try again tonight and see how it goes. But I feel like there's something terribly http://www.dreamviews.com/images/smi...tate2.gifwrong...

KingYoshi:

Hehe I've never considered them as 'cool' but thanks

I guess I was just too excited to join the battle. Although, I prefer your hallucinations. I mean, what you described is so much more calm. But the thing is, when I usually WILD, before, I used to always end up right in my room. Why the change of scenery?

**KingYoshi** · 06-26-2011 10:23 AM

It just happens sometimes. The majority of WILDs, in my experience, will start out in the same place you fell asleep. Every now and then though, you can start off in a different location. It seems that when you get full dream scene hallucinations, this tends to happen.