This morning, I think I got into the initial stages of WILD. Let me try to describe it as best as I can. I try a method I came up with a while back where I wake up, stay reeealy tired, and try to look at the clock over and over again and see if it starts reading funny stuff. Like, I'll check, then close my eyes, then check...sometimes, I'll end up in a weird in-between state where I'm dreaming (i.e. the clock starts making no sense) but don't realize it at the time and still think I'm in the middle of a WILD.

So while attempting this, I get to a part where I'm paralyzed. I feel as if I'm getting sandblasted, or pins and needles in most parts of my body. But where it really gets unpleasant is the sensations. In the middle of all this, I feel as if I'm suffocating, or having my breathing getting slow and constricted. All in all it just feels like if everything intensified, I'd die or end up disabled or something. It just all felt really bizarre and unnatural, and I kept shaking out of it because of it.

Anyone ever have the same issue, and how did you get over it? Better yet, how do you get "into" the dream from this point?