Three nights ago, I stayed up much past my usual bedtime for a project; so two days ago I decided to try to WILD before going to bed. I figured that being tired, I could practice clearing my mind, and maybe even get to SP due to my messed-up sleep schedule. I figured my chances of getting a lucid dream were slim, though.

After lying down and relaxing for a while, I felt the usual sensations before initially falling asleep. Sometimes I feel like I'm floating or that my hands have disappeared. I've learned that those sensations aren't actually SP or HI, but the side effects of being tired and relaxed. That night, though, I had an unusual amount of "seeing through the eyelids" sensation -- I felt like if I concentrated a little, I could see right through the back of my eyelids into the room beyond.

About half an hour passed of being a little too aware for sleep, so I decided to just fall asleep. I quickly lost awareness as usual, and was headed toward sleep until something very strange happened. All of a sudden, I was aware that I could see into my room. In the back of my mind I knew that my eyes were still closed; the view of the room was a little offset from the way I knew my head was positioned. This all took a lower priority to the fact that I could see very clearly and very realistically a tall man, draped in my bed sheet, slowly reaching for me.

Needless to say, I was very scared, because nothing like this had happened to me before. The image was very clear in my head and I could still vaguely feel my body in bed, so it felt completely like this was actually happen. Naturally, I freaked and forced myself to open my eyes in the real world. Naturally, there was no real man reaching for me, but I was still afraid.

I proceeded to have a night full of awesome DILDs and WILDs, but the image still frightened me. The next two nights I lost a lot of sleep because I was afraid of what might form beyond my eyelids. I know it's not real, but lying there at night I can still see it happening, and I don't want it to happen again.

Has anybody had something suddenly appear beyond their eyelids like that? How do you escape the fear and get back into sleeping and lucid dreaming?

Thanks for reading