Need help with WILD :)

Quest for Lucidity
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Hey guys,

So I’m currently practicing WILD but I’ve stumbled on 2 problems, and I hope some of you could give me some tips.

Problem 1:
After relaxing my body for 15-20 minutes, I suddenly notice my arms lose feeling. I assume this is a good thing, they are falling asleep/become paralyzed. What I feel is, first I can still feel my fingers touch the bed, but then my hands start to feel like fingerless stumps. The bed becomes softer, more liquid. Suddenly my arms feel like they are floating in some sort of liquid or gel. This feels sort of good, and I try to pass this feeling to my legs as well. After some focussing my left legs gets paralyzed like my arm, but I’m having some trouble with my right leg, especially the foot, I can still feel it and it doesn’t seem to be floating like my arms do.
Also, the biggest problem is my chest. As soon as my arms are completely paralyzed, I can feel the paralyzation spread through my shoulders and get to my chest. Here begins a big problem, because when my chest paralyses, I cannot feel my breathing any more. Although I know I’m probably still breathing, I can’t feel the air fill my lungs, and this give me a suffocating feeling. I subconsciously start to breath faster, because my body thinks it needs more air, like I’m hyperventilating, and this is bad because muscles become tense again. How should I try to solve this?

Problem 2:
The second problem is how to accept the hypnogogic state. When I’m lying there in bed, partly paralyzed, I start getting these sudden dream images in my head, which is good. They are way more vivid then normal thoughts and I know these are the doorways to my dreams. The problem is, as soon as I get a hypnogogic image, I suddenly get pulled back to my awakened state. I can’t seem to look at them for more then a second before being drawn back. It’s like as soon as I realise its a hypnogogic image it disappears. I need to find a way to keep calm and maintain those images so I can try to enter them. Any tips for this?

Hope someone could give me some advice!

Moved from General Lucidness. :dragon:

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I believe you are trying this on your back, right? Well I don’t know how you feel about this sleeping position but I had sort of the same problem because I would do everything on my back and everything was going good until I actually needed to enter the dream. My problem was that I just couldn’t fall asleep. Then I found on youtube video that represented a technique called SDR(stop, drop and roll). The main idea of technique is to start on your back to relax because it really is the best position for relaxing and feeling your body and then at the end of performing the tech you would end up in your most wanted position. At least that’s how I do it. I relax on the back and end up falling asleep on my side because that’s what I like and that’s how I can fall asleep.

Here’s the video of the technique, check it out!

I believe that this will solve your problem 1.

Problem 2: well HH are somewhat hard to manipulate. You lose them very easy. My simple explanation of WILD is that you need to fall asleep in order to dream therefore have a LD. When you figure that out then WILD is a peace of cake. Only problem is when to fall asleep. If you fall asleep normally you won’t be conscious enough to remember that the dream is a dream. So you need to stay conscious long enough to let your body fall asleep but to keep mind awake.

I would usually fall asleep when I start to experience hallucinations like vibrations, floating and such. Some experience vivid images you can use them to but for me I get this specific vibration of the whole body and then I let go. I just fall asleep and next second I’m in a dream, LUCID!

Good luck, if you have more questions, just ask! :content: