Did I just experience a WILD?

**Laurelindo** · 02-04-2014 08:51 PM

Two nights ago I had a pretty bizarre experience.
It started with me waking up for a short while in waking life, then when I went back to sleep I seemed to fall asleep really quickly, and I saw some weird illusion of a character of some sort, almost like a 2D platformer video game (kinda like Vib Ribbon, but less trippy) - and while I was watching this strange scene I started telling myself "hey, this is the beginning of a dream of some sort; now, how do I actually enter the dreamworld?".
So I tried rubbing my hands, and suddenly I found myself lying in bed again - but 90° to the right, and with a mysterious television at my feet.
At this stage I knew I had entered the dream, and I started playing around until I woke up.

I was wondering, does this count as some form of WILD?
I mean, I saw that illusion thing almost instantly after trying to fall back to sleep, and then I just sort of "decided" to enter the dreamworld like that.

**gab** · 02-04-2014 09:23 PM

I believe so : )

WILD is when you enter lucid dream without loss of consiousness, when going from waking life to dreamland.

I can't really tell if you were in a dream itself, or you were playing with HH. Just because they can be so similar, it's hard to tell sometimes, where the HH ends and dream starts. But either way, it sounds like great experience.

**Sibyline** · 02-04-2014 09:48 PM

Sounds like a WILD to me. It can be a really gentle transition, especially if you aren't fully awake when you go back to sleep. Then it feels like a DEILD, which is super smooth, compared to a WILD coming from a fully awake state. At least that's what it's like for me.

**Laurelindo** · 02-08-2014 05:39 PM

Aha, thanks everyone.

I believe I was about to experience something similar last night as well, I remember telling myself in some trance-like state that "now, let's re-enter that last dream..." and then I got a feeling I was watching some dark rectangular object or whatever, almost like a blank dark canvas, and tried to "dive into" it.
I don't remember anything after that, but in any case it was apparently an enough unusual experience to leave an impression on me.