Hi
My friend and I are still new to lucid dreaming and my friend attempted a WILD last night. She said she relaxed her body and repeated her mantra, and started to see colorful blobs dots etc. which sounds like what I read about hypnotic imagery. She then said that she started to see scary figures, like a baby with swirly eyes smiling creepily etc. Her heartbeat was really loud and fast. She tried to ignore them and continue on, but eventually got too scared and opened her eyes. What im confused about is she wasnt dreaming yet since she was still in HI, and she wasnt in sleep paralysis since she wasnt paralyzed, so why was she seeing scary figures? Was it just her imagination running wild from what she read about sleep paralysis? Or was it a dream starting to form but a nightmare? And how would you take what happened and continue into a lucid dream?
Thank you ^^