Thread: Help me WILD!... PLEASE!!!

So, I'm going to explain exactly what happened to me, but before I do, I'm just going to ask my main question. How long does a WILD take, starting from when you start to see flashes, to when you enter the dream while seeing hypnagogic images and hearing/feeling buzzing?

So... yesterday, around 5 p.m. I was really tired, and decided to take a nap. I put in my ear buds, and turned on my home made 6hz beat (40hz bass) binaural beat mix... I lied on my back for about two hours, listening to the beat, and concentrating on my closed eyelids. After the two hours, I was starting to fall asleep, but every time I came close, my relaxed larynx would cause me to snore... so after a few times coming close to WILD'ing, only to start to snore, I gave up. I took out my ear buds, and turned onto my stomach (my most comfortable--non-snoring--position). I began to fall asleep rather quickly... I did exactly what I was doing with the binaural beats, only no binaural beats... except, I also chanted, "I'm lucid dreaming now," while looking at my eyelids. within minutes, I was asleep (I missed my chance to WILD).

Normally it takes hours for me to sleep, but anyways... I had an unusual dream, and somehow managed to DILD... I realized I was dreaming, and then began to fly. I made a mistake though... I didn't stabilize my dream in any way. Instead, I closed my eyes in the dream, and imagined what dreamscape I wanted to be in. But when I opened my eyes, I opened them in real life.

I immediately closed my eyes, and tried to WILD. I began to see flashes... then I started to hear this deafening buzzing, and I could feel it in my head. I also heard some faint voices. Not sure if I had sleep paralysis, as I didn't check if I could move. But I began to see hypnagogic images (little swirls of colored light). I decided it was time to try and enter the dream.

I remembered this technique where you imagine the sensation of rolling, in order to enter the dream. I tried this... suddenly, it felt as though I was rolling down a hill (I was controlling the rolling completely). From flashing, to rolling, it was about 5 minutes... after about a minute of rolling, I decided to try and imagine a dreamscape... but it did nothing. So I thought, "Maybe I should open my eyes," so I did... bad idea. I was still in waking life. I tried to close my eyes again, and the flashing and buzzing was still there, but not the swirls of light. Eventually it all faded away... I missed my chance to WILD.

So, like I said above... how long should I have waited until I started to imagine the dreamscape? Should I even try and imagine one, or will I eventually just enter one?

In short, how long does it take to go from beginning flashes, to entering the dreamscape???

I have somewhat similar experiences. If I lay comfortable and still to concentrate for about 30 minutes, my body starts sending all kinds of weird sensations. I interpret this as a pre-cursor to SP, because I've broken out of it before just by trying to move. I do basic WILD and visualization techniques here. Just like Liquidaque, after a period of time I decide to try moving my dream body, but then I end up moving my body in real life. Also I became fully immersed in my dream world last night, but did not have SP so I woke myself back up when I made a gesture with my arm.

I'm beginning to think that the problem isn't with the condition of our minds or how we're concentrating. It seems more like my mind has gone to sleep, but my body still hasn't entered SP. I tend to back this up because one of the reasons I got back into lucid dreaming was because I woke myself up at night a few times by randomly losing SP and acting out my dreams in real life.

Perhaps it's not uncommon for some people's bodies to take super long to enter SP, and then it's more mild?

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I think the biggest problem is that I take an SSRI antidepressant. Wellbutrin to be exact. This supresses REM sleep. I just found this out, and will be going to the doctors ASAP to switch to one of three antidepressants that don't inhibit REM.