Alright, so in the time I've been gone here, I pretty much gave up on lucid dreaming for a while, since my school schedule just didn't permit me to disrupt my sleep cycle so much. But more recently things have slowed down and now I can afford to do so, so I've tried every now and then.

One morning I woke up from a dream. Instead of deciding to fall back asleep and continue on with the dream like I usually do, I attempted a WILD. Then something odd happened after a while... I "saw" this white-and-teal colored static and heard what to me sounded like a loud mains hum (about 60 Hz, kinda like as if my guitar amp had suddenly kicked to life... if you don't know what I'm talking about look up mains hum on Wikipedia and listen to the sound file).

Then I sort of snapped back to consciousness abruptly, like "What the hell just happened?"

Was this a near-hit? What "sights" and "sounds" do other people here experience while becoming lucid through WILD?