Thread: Some tricky questions for you WILDers

Originally Posted by WDr

One more update, and a question: I've found a good time to wake up, but I've also met another problem; to avoid falling alseep I count my breaths and this works fine, but when I'm getting to around 80 breaths, it gets really hard to consentrate some tips on how to consentrate better?

I mean, I'm not sure how much focus you're putting into this whole counting thing, but if you're having trouble keeping it up, it's likely too much. So my tip to you would be to find yourself a better anchor which you can stick to without having concentration issues.

Originally Posted by WDr

Oh, and last night I tried to WILD and I experienced vibrations (!) but after that I only remember driving in and out of space(the dreamscape) when I suddenly was in the dream, lucid. I didn't get HH or SP. was it a WILD, or just a lucid dream because of the lucid dream focus I had before falling asleep?

If you enter a dream, directly from a waking state, whilst maintaining lucidity, then it's a WILD.

Not everyone gets HH, and rarely do you find people who get HH on every successful attempt, so that's not something you should be looking for in the first place. That said, your recollection of "driving in and out of space" could likely be considered HH.

As for SP, you aren't going to be completely paralyzed unless REM atonia has hit. As the name suggest, that only comes into play during REM, and at that point you should already be within a dream, so that whole bit of information is a really a misnomer that arose from the confusion between experiences during the progression of N1-3 sleep and the experiences of those who awoke during a REM period with REM atonia still in full effect. Yes, they share similarities, but they are by no means equal, and the latter tends to be consistently terrifying (to a whole different degree), while the former's 'scare factor' is really dependent on any HH that may or may not occur.