Thread: Close to WILD, I can feel it...

Last night was the closest I have ever came to a WILD. It started out at 12:00 Midnight. I tired a quick WILD with the blinds shut and my alarm clock playing ocean sounds. I got a little bit of SP at around 12:45, but my eyes began to spasm from holding them shut and my blanket made me feel warm and feverish so I had to restart. I kept the ocean sounds on and put on a sleeping mask (Unfortunately it was padded and felt a little uncomfortable, but it was the only way to keep my eyes shut). I spent about 4 hours lying prone, gradually letting the SP set in. I tried everything from rapidly moving my eyes underneath my eyelide (hoping to trick my body into thinking I was in REM, thus inducing SP faster) I got to the point where I had to make a large effort to move and had occaisional spasms. I made the mistake of trying to get up into my dream (foolishly thinking I had reached it) and I just lost a crapload of SP. I decided to turn of my Ocean sounds (still trying to keep remaining Sp) but I did it in such a fashion that I basically woke my body up. It was 5:00 AM.

I realize I should have done WBTB, as it has helped me with DILDs in the past, but I got greedy and just messed everything up. Does anybody have any tips for me?

4 hours is a pretty big amount of time. Did it really feel like 4 hours, or did you drift every now and then?

I'd say, that WILD, even for starters, should take a max 1 hour and 30 minutes. I've not succeeded with WILD myself, though I've had SP set in after only 20 or 30 minutes. I was pretty close, but my heart went crazy and it was my first attempt ever, so I kinda broke it.

But if anything, it is progress, but as a last reminder, the reason it didn't work for you, was probably because you did it, when you went to bed. You have to do WILD after 5-7 hours of sleep unless you know you can do it when you initially go to bed. I don't know many who can do that though. Actually, I've only read one who said he could, but he also said it was way easier to do after 6 hours of sleep, and the dreams were also rather different, lucid or not.

Concentrate less on body, more on thought. I hate WILD thread that bombard the reader with "DON'T MOVE" messages. For many, this completely throws off the groove. They start focusing on the body, which is wrong.

Here's my suggestion: focus on thought. I don't mean "count to 100, check to see if you feel vibrations," I mean "count to 100, visualize your dream, count down to 0, visualize yourself becoming lucid, repeat." You shouldn't notice yourself relaxing at all. When I succeed at WILD, I notice SP as a sudden transition, not a gradual occurence. When I fail WILDs, I could go on talking forever about the 'deepening stages of sleep paralysis.' When I succeed, I can only remember a quick burst of SP.