Okay, greetings all, I'm basically new on these forums. (Okay, totally new...)

I know this post is long, but I'd be REALLY grateful if somebody (preferably with WILD-ing experience) could read it through and tell me what they think.

Since I was about 14, I've never been able to remember my dreams.... like maybe a couple a year. So, over the past week I've been trying to wake myself up, and using a dream notebook, with limited success. (Over the past four days I've recalled 2 fairly vivid dreams, which for me, is phenomenal, as I sleep very deeply and formerly I ALWAYS forgot my dreams before I woke.

But here's the thing... last night, I decided that, what the hell, I'll try to induce a lucid dream, using the WILD technique... and I think it nearly worked!

I've done a bit of background reading over the last couple of weeks, and when I began, I knew that WILDs are considered pretty hard to achieve, so I knew what I was getting into. But I decided to try it anyway.

[size=18]Basically, I'd REALLY appreciate some comments from 'ye of bettere experience' as to whether or not I actually came close to getting a WILD...

So with that in mind, here's what I did. (I read up A BIT on how WILDs are supposed to be done... dunno how right what I did was, however...)

I woke myself up after 4.5 hours of sleep. Unfortunately, I didn't remember any dreams at this point. It's now 4am.

I make myself a cup of coffee, have the coffee, surf the internewt and read a bit about WILDs to reinforce that I want to have a WILD, etc. I go to bed again. It's now 4:40am.

Now, I stretch out, with hands and legs splayed and palms facing upwards on my big, comfy queen-sized bed, cos this position seems to be the one I find most relaxing. Then, I have a stab at using the "61-point relaxing technique" that a thread on this forum linked me to. It worked quite well, and my body felt warm and heavy, and a bit numb. It's now about 5:00... I think...

Now, I've got my eyes closed, and I count to 100, adding "I'm dreaming" after every number...

This is where, to put it bluntly, "the weird shit" started to happen.

First, I start to see lights on the back of my eyelids... SORT OF like the ones you get "burnt" on your eyeballs and linger for a while after you've been staring at a bright light for ages in waking life...

Now, I'm still counting, telling myself I'm dreaming, I'm going to dream. I'm feeling myself exhale. Then, suddenly, I start to feel my eyes moving about, VERY rapidly, beneath my eyelids, and it's hard-ish to keep my eyelids closed, but after a bit, I get the hang of it without having to put in too much effort. This is kinda cool, not at all disconcerting as what I had read led me to believe. Also, I started to get REALLY wierd tingling sensations, and numbing, running up and down my body. After then, it was almost like my body was asleep, and I was sorta feeling my body be totally numb. My eyes have stopped moving about now.

My breathing's really shallow now, and I get a weird ringing in my ears... sort of (actually, exactly) like hearing cicadas chirping in summer. I still feel a little bit disassociated with my body, but not totally.

My vision's still getting these patterns of moving light, but I can't see any shapes or scenes, as some of the stuff I've read on the net led me to expect. I did see the occaisional pattern, some sorta recurring geometric pattern, like a star opening and closing (if that makes any sense...).

Every now and then, I'm telling myself I'm dreaming, I'm going to dream...

NOW "the REALLY weird shit" starts to happen.

I start to concentrate, but not to much, on the patterns and moving colour. And then, I get the now-familiar sensation of my eyes moving beneath my eyelids, rapidly. (is this REM???)

It then started to seem as though I was being twirled around REALLY fast... liek a massive g-force was acting on my body, pulling me down into my bed and, oddly enough, slightly to the right.....?

That subsided. The patterns are continuing, but then something else starts to happen. I feel as if I'm being pulled up, by the chest, with my arms and legs dropping behind me. It feels as if I'm rising off the bed. (I think my arms actually DID move in the bed, as they seemed to be a bit closer to my sides when I awoke.

And then, just as I was getting this rather COOL lifting sensation...

My alarm went off. No shit. This was 6:00am (I have uni classes at 8am you see...) Did the reality checks and everything, and it was real. Bummer...

So, although it took me about an hour, it felt like I was getting somewhere...

What do you guys think? Did I nearly make a WILD? If so, how far along did I get before my alarm woke me up? And if not, what was I doing wrong, if anything, or do I just need more experience?

The attitude I'm taking at the moment is that my primary goal is to boost my Dream recall (it's AWFUL at the moment). But I'm also gonna try WILD or another method every now and then... hoping that it will work, thinking it MIGHT, but not being too excited and focussed about it....