The other night, I was lying in bed with my girlfriend. As I started to fall asleep, I remember looking down at her face. It began to take on a whiter appearance and I had a very strong feeling that it had become a book. Her hair then turned black and started spiralling all around the bed and me in snakelike patterns. During this time, I had my eyes open and I felt about 25% awake. Unfortunately, this didn’t register as being “unnatural” in my head, and I just gradually fell asleep. Similar things have happened to me in the past.
I know there are certain WILD-esque techniques that focus on HI, but what are some good ways to consciously induce HI and use it to LD?
I’m not sure about it, but dreams look like to have a chaining connection to each other. Maybe because they come from the same mind. Maybe you can try doing it again, not that it would repeat, but your mind has the possibility of its perception.
But if you take too long to try it again, the chaining will be lost among the other dreams (even the forgotten ones)…
As far as I know, there are no methods to induce HI. All the HH’s come naturally when you fall asleep. And some people have rather HI, some other cenesthesic HH (vibrations, strange body feelings) and other auditory HH. Thus the “good way” is relaxing deeply and waiting for they appear without falling asleep.
Then all the methods which use HH in order to get LD’s are the WILD methods indeed.