Thread: How to WILD without sleep paralysis?

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Hi, good news! SP is a completely unnecessary part of WILDing. In fact, true sleep paralysis is a medical condition which can't really be induced, and unless you really do have medical SP, then you're good to go. In fact, what people refer to as 'sleep paralysis' are the sensations of numbness, tingling, heaviness, hallucinations, etc. and it is overblown and incorrect. The things you feel/experience during the transition in a WILD attempt are normal and safe, even though they might seem terrifying at the moment because you're kind of disorientated that you're witnessing what you don't normally witness.

If you wanna pursue WILDing, I strongly suggest you read through this: WILD before reading other user tutorials around the forum. Pay particular attention to "Notes About the Noise.

Good luck!

I really do have medical SP. I only just found out that SP is usually overblown and not taken seriously on this forum which I guess can make it a little confusing for people like me. And whilst I don't get it every night, I do get it frequently. I'm just worried that WILDing might make it worse. I've always wanted to learn to lucid dream but I've never really had any luck with it. Do you have any good links on how to turn an SP experience into a lucid dream for those times where I do get it? Maybe I'm going about it using the wrong technique.

Also.. can you WILD in the afternoon during a nap, say six hours or so after you first wake up in the morning? Or does it have to be preferably halfway through your morning sleep cycle? What technique should I use if I wanted to try lucid dreaming during naps?

And thanks! I'll check out the other link you gave me.

Originally Posted by ScarlettHayden

I really do have medical SP. I only just found out that SP is usually overblown and not taken seriously on this forum which I guess can make it a little confusing for people like me. And whilst I don't get it every night, I do get it frequently. I'm just worried that WILDing might make it worse. I've always wanted to learn to lucid dream but I've never really had any luck with it. Do you have any good links on how to turn an SP experience into a lucid dream for those times where I do get it? Maybe I'm going about it using the wrong technique.

Also.. can you WILD in the afternoon during a nap, say six hours or so after you first wake up in the morning? Or does it have to be preferably halfway through your morning sleep cycle? What technique should I use if I wanted to try lucid dreaming during naps?

And thanks! I'll check out the other link you gave me.

Ahh, I see. Don't fret though, you can turn anything into an advantage if you know how to. I do not know if there is a single most recommended thread for going from SP to WILD that I should link you to. However, I would imagine the process for WILDing would be almost exactly the same. The main point being you try not to focus on the sensations you're having. Look at it like this: You know how when you get lucid you stabilize and focus on the environment in order to ground yourself into it? Same goes for the sensations during the transition. Just focus on your dream and visualize it and try to drown out the distracting sensations with your thoughts and imagination. In the same way stabilizing works, if you focus on your physical sensations, you will only ground yourself into the physical world and that will make it harder for you to transition into the dream. So I think that whether or not you actually have SP, you should focus much more on entering the dream and laying it out rather than worrying about the sensations you're feeling. I know it can be hard though, it's very hard to convince yourself while it is happening, but the important thing is that you keep trying. And I'm not only saying it to sound cheesy, but also because the truth is that the more you keep trying, the better you understand what works for you, and the more you know what to do next time and how your mind works. And once you start understanding that, you won't have to worry about going through sleep paralysis because you'll know how to work around it

As for the WILD naps, sure! Naps are great for all types of lucid dreams. See, with WILD,mit works best with WBTB, but if you do it during a nap, it's like a magic period where you can skip WBTB because in naps you go straight into REM so you don't need to wake up after x number of hours. For technique, depends on you really. Try out WILD and see how it goes from there~