My first wild without pre-sleep - and a frightening experience

[Blµb]

I've just had an amazing experience which I think is worth mentioning here. For the first time, I was able to get right into a lucid dream without sleeping first. Although it didn't happen at night, it is still very interesting. I lied down in my bed at midday to relax some time because I felt a bit tired after eating. I was on my back, which is a position in which it is very hard for me to fall asleep in, because at first I didn't want to fall asleep since I had to catch a train later. At least I thought so. After some time while I was dozing around I got a text message. I picked up my cell and read the message which was basically telling me to get onto a later train, so I decided to fall asleep. I turned to the side and tried to keep a low level of awareness. Doing that is often quite hard, but it felt kind of easy. I think lifting up my upper body to read the text is the reason for that. My body became relaxed again much faster than when you start out, yet it was easy to stay "on course" to a dream. Which I think can be helpful. Whenever you notice that you have a really hard time to not fall completely unconscious, consider lifting up your upper body. It won't keep you from actually falling asleep - at least it didn't for me today. Anyway, some time after that it became quite loud outside my room (I'm in a dormitory) which also caught my attention for a second. So overall there were 2 "short" distractions which didn't keep me from falling asleep, but instead made it easier to stay aware without staying awake. Then, while still trying to keep a low level of awareness, some thoughts entered my head and some dream scenes started to happen. Whenever I realized that I was in such a scene, my awareness came back a little too much to stay in it - for the first few ones anyway. Then somewhere in the back of my head I was thinking about getting some food before going home (with the train I mentined). So another dream scene started: I got up, went to my fridge, opened it, and suddenly I noticed that it contained completely different things than I had actually put in. But the dream didn't fade away at that same moment. I was actually in the dream scene. Eventually this scene also faded away and I waited for the next one - which was much easier. I was feeling my body lying in bed, it started to tingle everywhere, and I just thought about getting up, and I did - not physically, it happened without me doing anything consciously - but in a dream scene, and I took over from there. I had about 3 or 4 such dreams which always started in my room - which is somehow funny. I think I was a bit too tired though, because when I wanted to wake up I ended up in sleep paralysis for quite some time. I was used for it to take 2 or 3 seconds, but this time I had actually one eye already opened, but I couldn't move for about a minute. It's scary and amazing at the same time. As "Abra" mentioned in the first post of the "#1 Misconception about WILD" thread, the eyes flickering open now and then are something totally natural as it seems to me. I've stopped trying to enter sleep paralysis first. The way which works for me is trying to hold on to a low level of awareness - I don't know any better words to describe it. There is something else I'd like to talk about. I mentioned some dream scenes starting in my bed, and usually starting with a tingling in my whole body before I get up. I think that when this happens I actually am already in a dream. Maybe it is my body or my mind "commanding" me to start moving for some reason? I've never had a dream where I actually relaxed... without moving around in any way. The thing is, that the reason for me wanting to wake up wasn't because I had so little time left. It was one reason, yes, but I had a very frightening experience which made me want to wake up and check on me. Since I first had this what feels like a "body falls asleep and pushes me into a dream" sensation a few months ago, I was wondering what would happen if I'd just keep relaxing and wait for this sensation to "complete" - whatever that means. This "tingling" sensation then turned into something that feels like all my muscels start to tense up HARD and suddenly I felt my lower teeth "pushing out" one of my upper teeth by pure force - not completely, just so it was partially loose - and I was actually able to feel a slight pain. I never felt real pain in my dreams. Whenever something painful happened to me in my dreams, I did whatever you'd usually do - swear, cry out loud, anything - but I never felt it, which always made me wake up... As you can guess: After coming out of sleep paralysis, there was nothing wrong with my tooth whatsoever. I have had this sensation a few times now already, but I have never observed it for such a long time, and it never got so intense. Any thoughts? And thanks for reading this huge post

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Pretty awesome WILD lolz I still haven't had my first LD. :S Going to do a WBTB/WILD this Thursday.

[wwe101]

same thing happend to me a week or two ago. it was sweet but ended right away