Well, id like to say hi to everyone, i havent posted in a while, and have just recently become more serious about my dreaming and have started to get back into it...

NOTE: after writing this post i realized it was really long. sorry haha... i may ramble a little and be over-descriptive, but any advice anyone can provide me will be accepted gratefully. Thanks for reading!

last night, i made a great accomplishment in my attempts at WILDing. Throughout the night, I went into something, i dont know if it was sleep paralysis or what, but 3 times my body began vibrating intensely and one time my heart rate increased dramatically and i even went into a dream, but hit myself in the face in real life when i tried to do a reality check in the dream. (sigh.) Let me elaborate a little.

I awoke myself at 5am after going to bed around 2ish, i think, (i know this is not the reccomended ammount of sleep to get before WILDing, but i was so eager to do it i just didnt care) and immedeatley turned off my alarm and started counting to myself. "1 im dreaming... 2 im dreaming..." untill i got to 100, and figured i was too awake, so i let my mind wander, and eventually lost conciousness. HOWEVER, i came to a point where in my closed eyelids i saw geometric shapes spiralling into the center of my vision, and my heart rate increased dramatically, i began hearing things around me, and intense vibrations began shaking my body. This is the first time i had experienced such things, so i became over-excited and woke up to much.

My mind wandered, and I found myself in a dream. It felt just like a dream, and carried on for probably 10 minutes, untill all of a sudden, the vibrations came back, just as intense as before. I awoke myself too much once more, but then concentrated on the last scene of the "dream" i had just had, and the vibrations returned. This happened twice more, where i woke up too much and then concentrated on the last scene of my "dream", and I eventually slipped into what was actually, i believe, the beginnings of a WILD dream, however, as the magnifiscent dream scape was layed out before me, i didnt wait long enough, and did a reality check, which is when i hit myself in the face. DAMNIT. so close.

THIRD AND FINAL TIME (bear with me, im almost done) I was laying on my side when the vibrations came back, and i tried to let them happen passively, but since i was on my side my arm was at a wierd angle and began tweakin out on me enough to where i woke up entirely, rolled over, and fell asleep.

THE MORAL TO MY RAMBLINGS: Did I do it right?? Was I in an LD, and messed it up at the last second by not waiting for the dream to "sink in more" before doing a reality check? Since I thought I was already in a dream before hand, though, wtf was that? Im confused. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, and thank you so much for reading all the way down here to the bottom!!!