What does WILD feel like?

**liam12345677** · 06-09-2016 10:32 PM

Well I guess this is kind of an open question, but it would help me to understand just how far I'm getting in achieving WILD.

Could you compare the 'consciously sleeping' aspect of it to the type of sleep you have when sleeping on an aeroplane/train/car etc? In the sense that you ARE asleep, but if someone calls for you or some loud sound is made, you wake up but feel like you weren't actually asleep at all?

Sorry if that's a bad example, but I know I sometimes fall asleep that way on long journeys, and if that's what the consciously sleeping part of WILD feels like, then that'd be reassuring and would let me know whether I'm on the right lines.

**dolphin** · 06-10-2016 05:47 PM

Your comparison is what it feels like to me.

**FryingMan** · 06-10-2016 06:24 PM

Yes it's sort of like that. I don't sleep while travelling, so for me it's more like when my wife wakes me to tells me I'm snoring, but I feel like I never fell asleep at all (and don't notice that I'm snoring).

In the few WILDs I've had, a image slowly fades in, and I find myself "standing still" considering some view in front of me. In non-lucid dreams, I start thinking about what I'm looking at and the dream begins that way. In WILDs, I know that I'm dreaming and step into the dream scene once it finishes forming.

**Narratick** · 06-10-2016 06:26 PM

Do you mean, what is the feeling when you are inside the dream or what is the feeling during the transition between waking and dreaming ?

Because what you are describing seems (to me) to be a daydream in which you can become lucid, not a WILD.
I had some of those lucid daydreams and they feel like what you have described.
They appear to be like an advanced visualization, with pretty clear images and landscapes.
In these I am lucid but can't really interact with anything, as if I am watching images on a screen.
If you keep this imagery going, you might end up inside the dream if you will, or fail at it and wake up like you described.

But during a "real" WILD, I will speak from my experience, my consciousness is completely transfered to my dream body, which I inhabit like my own physical body.
Then, I am really inside the dream, I am deeply incorporated in it, not just contemplating or observing images : I am an actor in a scene, not just spectating.
It has nothing to do with the feeling of light sleeping inside a train or a plane.

The transition itself greatly varies in intensity, a bunch of effects and perception can occur, tinnitus and noises of all kinds, vibrations throughout the body, etc.
It can be very smooth, or pretty violent, it depends on the awereness and calm that you bring with you.
If you are relaxed and let go of fears, then the transition can be very enjoyable.
You can also skip completely the transition by maintaining your awareness through a visual daydream as mentionned above.

I hope my shared experience can be of use to you liam, good luck with your WILD attempts