Thread: My first WILD...please read

Last night I had my first WILD (wake induced lucid dream) experience, and it still has me baffled. I've been posting on a few forums trying to get some advice.

Last night I was randomly surfing the web and started reading on hipforums.com about lucid dreaming and found this thread Hip Forums

I have always had lucid dreams and was somewhat interested in them. I read the first few pages of the thread and went to bed. Telling myself this isn't real but thinking I'd probably try it. The technique being: once you are lucid, slow your breathing, and with eyes closed, look up. By looking up they mean, rolling your eyes upwards towards the center of your brain.

Well I caught myself dreaming around 430 am. And being half asleep I did a couple deep breaths and did the look up technique, straining my eyes upward. And almost immediately i heard lightening...and i was frozen with the loudest noise in my ears. The feeling immediately reminded me of the night terrors i had as a child, some 20 years ago. It was horrifying, and i could feel myself raising out of bed and out of my body. I instantly started to fight it and come out. Then i remembered the post and tried to ride it some more. Going back into it with acceptance i started (my eyes are open) seeing what looked like a graph of sorts filled with red and greens. At this point it was too much and i let myself wake up.

This was hands down one of the craziest experiences of my life. I had to reach over to my girlfriend and try to calm down for a few minutes. My mind was wide awake and i felt tingly all the way to my finger tips.

So intense...and very much on accident. I had no idea this was so real.