WILD is great...so is the paranoia

WARNING! May induce bad dreams!

Last night I tried to WILD again. I observed my thoughts becoming stranger and stranger,and after a while I eventually lost my awareness. After one or two minutes my consciousness kicked back in. Now I felt heavy, my hearing began to move inward and started having some visual hypnagogia. In a matter of seconds the transitioning started and I was a couple seconds from a successful WILD. Then my beloved brain reminded me of the girl from "The ring", all the ghosts I ever heard of, all demons, etc... In despair I opened my eyes and for a couple seconds my room was red. This night I managed to avoid my demons...

My problem is that almost every time I try to WILD, I'm always one stone throw from success, but my paranoia, without mistake, destroys yet another very good attempt.
So, I know these horrors are not real and I know that the dream is molded by my expectations... But I don't want to experience them in a LD where everything is almost or just as real as reality... I don't want to see the girl from "The ring" crawl on the wall above my bed... I know I can end the dream when I want, I know that I can transform her in a harmless duck, but my fear is too great.

This night I will try to confront anything in my way, or I'll try to be positive and not think about horror stuff.
One last thing, I never saw anything scary in any of my LD attempts, but how I said, my expectations are dead wrong.

If you manage to successfully wild, and you experience some scary things, do this:
1. Quickly stand up.
2. Close your eyes.
3. Fall on your back like a plank, while thinking about a nice place.
4. The feeling will be fun, it'll be like you're falling, then smoothly stopping, and then some force will push you so you'll be standing again, in a nice place.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aldar13

This night I will try to confront anything in my way, or I'll try to be positive and not think about horror stuff.

Stop trying. Just do it.

Thanks MrOMGWTF and sloth for replying :) This night I will WILD, no matter what. I can't wait.