WILDs not for me? :(

**Saurfang** · 07-24-2011 10:31 AM

Hey guys, so today I have slept for 4 hours and did WBTB. I went to bathroom, drank some water and went back to bed. I have relaxed and I focused on my breathing to push my mind away from daily thoughts. I've spent like 15 minutes in the same relaxed position. All that I felt was that my hands and legs were heavy. I tried to move my thumb very gently. It moved a little bit. I spent like 5 more minutes like that and I gave up.

No hallucinations, no visions. Nothing. What did I do wrong?

**GuyCecil** · 07-24-2011 10:35 AM

Some people don't have any hallucinations or visions during sleep paralysis... in fact your limbs feeling heavy could have been SP. did you RC?

**ItsMEE** · 07-24-2011 10:51 AM

If your limbs feel heavy, don't move them because it can wake you up. Just close your eyes and think 'the next thing I see will be a dream' over and over. Focusing on your breathing to start with is good, but I find that it alters your breathing pattern slightly and doesn't help you fall asleep. If you do get hallucinations and stuff, don't pay too much attention to it, or it will go.

'you never truly fail until you stop trying'- the crystal ball, the haunted mansion

**Saurfang** · 07-24-2011 11:00 AM

I opened my eyes and shut my nose to see if I can breath. I could breath. I looked at my hands, they had 5 fingers each. So I wasn't sleeping

ItsMEE - that's a good explanation. Thank you! I will try this next night.

**Hopsin** · 07-24-2011 11:03 AM

You didn't fall asleep. keep that as your main focus, not just to achieve SP.

**rynkrt3** · 07-24-2011 11:17 PM

4 hours isn't really enough time.

You were to focused on having a WILD, you need to be fallin asleep consciously, not WIlDing... If that made sense.

**WinRic** · 07-24-2011 11:57 PM

I have been working on wilding for like two weeks and had my first success the last two nights. There were two big differences in what happened, I did it an hour and a half earlier and the room was completely black (I was also home for the weekend, and was in a different bed).
It might not be that you need more time, I was able to start entering SP one time the first night and three times last night with only four hours of sleep. So you might be like me and need less sleep than usual since I start my REM cycles in less than three hours of sleep. Its like how people say the amount of time needed to stay awake to start the wild is different for everyone (I didn't even get out of bed last night) so is the amount of sleep needed.
Also your first time will probably take at least half an hour.

**Moonstar798** · 07-25-2011 11:05 AM

I feel like this, too. But instead I lay there with the "roll over" feeling for an hour. But nothing, repeat, NOTHING ever happens. Ive been trying WILDs the past week, and everytime, I wake up, then can't fall back asleep, at all. I think I just can't do WILDS, cause I automatically wake myself fully up when I hear an alarm, and I wanna start my day. So I'm going to try WILDing one more night, and hope for the best.