Thread: Newbie to WILD Results and Questions

Hi my name is Lis and I'm a newbie here, first time post. Sorry in advance about the long post.

I've been lucid countless times in my dreams, every time it is an amazing experience. I wanted to learn how to better the chances of becoming lucid which brought me here. What I found interesting was the WILD technique, I never heard of it until I visited here. I know they said the best results are after waking on 5 or 6 hours of sleep. I just wanted to practice and see what it all was about, so I tried it at bedtime.

These are my results... I have a few questions after...

Tuesday 10/26 : Got nice and comfortable, laid on my back arms to my sides, had my head on a pillow (not to high). I didn't really count or think pay attention to my breathing. I just peered into the blackness. My eyes on occasion would hurt (like when you stare at a computer screen too long) I would try and concentrate on the blackness. I have no idea how long I did this, it felt like 30 mins or so... so around 30 mins I start feeling funny. My couldn't feel my body and I began to see these weird colors, like the colors of a bubble shifting in and out and sometimes like a tunnel. The pain in my eyes vanished and they my eyes felt like they were zipping back and forth. At time when I felt myself drifting I would see an object, I saw a lady with a purse plain as day surrounded by darkness, as soon as I thought about it she disappeared and I would get this wave light and dizziness/rollercoaster/fuzzy feeling and would go back to black and I would see the bubble colors again. I would see another object and BAM I would know I was about to dream and go back to the colors again. I guess for some reason I couldn't get to the next phase. I grew restless and gave up looked at the clock and seen a hour had passed. Went to sleep, it was harder to go to sleep because I kept focusing on it. lol

Wednesday 10/27 : Prepared the same way. I was sleepier this time. I would say 15 minutes into laying there, I began to feel numbness in my arms and legs. I would guess 5 minutes later I began to feel a sinking feeling. I wasn't seeing colors, just blackness. I felt awake or aware. So I tried to relax my thought more. I imagined myself running through the woods endlessly. I start to count slowly as I am running and around the 40s I began to have problems breathing. I felt as if something was crushing me. I kept my eyes shut and continued to count slowly, but the feeling never passes and at times it was if I couldn't control my own breathing. I couldn't feel my arms or legs just a feeling of being pushed down on my chest. I felt wide awake still so I decided to look at the clock, it had been about 25 minutes. Curiously I went to move my arms I could barely move them and when they began to move it felt heavy and at times would give out and plop down.

This is the weird part... I lay back down...
I would say the feeling hit me quicker this time within 5 to 10 minutes. My body went numb quickly and I began to see this pinkish red color swirling in my vision. This time instead of feeling the crushing feeling I had this wave pass over me. It felt like a tingling floating sensation, the tingling went away and I couldn't feel my body. I felt like I was floating in nothing. Then I started to feel strange. I felt as if I was a needle spinning slowly in a horizontal circle from head to feet, clockwise. At times it would slightly speed up and slow down. All the while I only seen red colors in my vision, my eyes were moving like crazy. I would say that lasted for 5 to 6 minutes. The spinning stopped but I didn't really notice it. I tried to relax nothing much happened after that I would see tunneling and purple colors and nothing more. I went to sleep.

Ok my question is, how do you get into the dream, When I am keeping my mind focused I tend to see only colors and tunneling.
So I allow my mind to wander to see if it helps when I lose focus for a brief moment the objects tend to appear and when I catch it it vanishes. So should I stay focused and will I in keeping focus begin to see objects and full dreamscapes? What is the technique? What should I do? am I even close? How do I know what SP feels like? was it the crushing breathless feeling I had or was it the floating spinning feeling? So many questions again, sorry about the long post.