Last night I attempted my first WILD. Unsuccessful but interesting.

It was about 3am, I was reading an LD book I got from the library (have some questions about the book but will save that for another thread) and I decided to give it a go. I know it might have been at the wrong time in my sleep cycle but I didn't get up til 5pm that day.

I lay down flat on my back because I couldn't get comfortable in my normal sleep position for some reason. I used self hypnosis to relax as completely as possible and once I'd reached a trance I kept repeating in my head "I will have a lucid dream" and waited. The first thing I experienced was an odd twisted feeling like my waist was out of line with my body and my arms felt contorted. I waited it out and it eventually went away. Then the neon coloured bits you see when you close your eyes took the form of loads of scattered hawk eyes and every now and again one would appear that was very clear. Then I started to see things quite vivdly, just random things like passing road signs as if lying down in the back of a car, a family guy style cartoon fish (not klaus, it was grey) but each time I tried to go with it the image seemed to burn out - went bright white and dissappeared. Then I heard a woman's voice saying "I'm responding to..." and I had a strong impression she was a business woman on the phone. But then I lost that image and will never no what she was responding to. I then became increasingly aware each time I snapped out of it because my computer was on and I couldn't hear it when seeing something but it was very obvious when I came back from a vision. After about 45 minutes I gave up because I just kept losing the image every time.

After giving up though, I became quite restless which I found odd as I was really tired before trying and didn't get too excited whilst trying the WILD. Perhaps some rest is achieved in the hypnagogic state? Maybe I was just refreshed from the hypnosis.

Any ideas on greater success next time?