Hey guys I 'm one of the newbies here and had a question.

Through no fault of my own I did a CANWILD. I went to bed relatively early using relaxation and binaural beats for about 30 minutes then went to sleep and dreamt normally. then I woke up too early to be awake and then i attempted to WILD again and got into an even deeper relaxed state but my stomach started growling and i could not focus so i gave up and went to sleep.

then it was pitch black and i had the hypnogogic hallucination of a showerhead running water near me. i stretched my hand out to it and i felt some sort of pulse of "energy" at my solar plexus. and i thought i was LD'ing and tried to change stuff but it was all still pitch black i was not LDing but just going through SP. i felt that energy again and then i was pulled back to fully awake.

now my question is this...does anyone else feel that odd thing at the center of your chest when LD'ing? and how do you differentiate the hypnogogic hallucination and lucid dreaming?