Scared to try

Quest for Lucidity
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In all honesty I don’t see why even SOME people are afraid of the WILD technique. I mean, I can see people who have a fear of being helpless (speaking of which, is there a scientific definition for this? I tried looking up the word, but couldn’t find it anywhere, I just keep getting a bunch of links surrounding agoraphobia, and that’s nowhere near this fear) being afraid of sleep paralysis, but come on now.
Sleep paralysis is a natural thing that happens every night of your life, if your afraid of it, you might as well be afraid of dreaming itself. Or being awake for that matter. Or drinking water, or anything else that you do every single day.

And if you find yourself even remotely afraid of something, you need to question it in its’ entirety before you can even be sure it’s worth being afraid of! In this case, it’s a natural thing that happens every night you fall asleep. Nothing to be afraid of there. And for that matter, drinking water. It’s a natural thing, but even aquaphobics drink water (at least…I’ve never HEARD of an aquaphobic not drinking water because they were afraid of it). So why even have this form of somniphobia? (even though you say you want to try it)

See what I mean?

As for the feeling behind lucid dreaming, I used to be able to tell I was dreaming because of the feeling in the air, almost as if the air world I was in during the current moment had a heavier aura surrounding it. So, I did a reality check, and sure enough, I was dreaming.
It’s a bit hard to explain. It’s almost as if the surrounding environment reflects the feeling your having in the present moment. In a normal surrounding, everything is incredibly calming. The air around me almost feels surreal, and no matter what I do I don’t exactly feel tired, it’s incredible (that bit’s normal in a dream, but the feeling of the dream pairs with it so nicely). However, in dire situations, the air around me reflects this. The mood of the surrounding feels almost hectic, and screams to be released from its’ current state, to end whatever it is going on that’s causing the dream to be that insane.
At least, that’s what it feels like in my dreams. Which is why even in uneventful lucid dreams, I’m glad I had them. It accompanies the events that go on within so well :content:

Whenever you do have a lucid dream, pay attention to the mood of the dream itself. Not as in a summary of the dream, the actual mood of the air within it. Ask yourself, “does the world I’m in make me seem more calm than the environment I face IRL?”

And better yet, does anyone else see this in their dreams as well? I’ve never heard anyone actually describing the environment’s mood in their dreams before. Only ever the events that went on within :neutral:

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Seeing strange colors and flashing lights is normal, that’s hypnagogic imagery. As you progress in the WILD, these will begin to take better shape and look more like actual objects that you can focus on. It’s also important to note that your eyes should be completely still as you shouldn’t be seeing “with your eyes”, per se. The noise you were hearing, unless there was a monster that crawled out from under your bed, was probably the regular noise that accompanies all WILD attempts at their later stages. This noise is described as most as something that relates to a chainsaw, or something else rattling at various noise levels. I don’t know why yours sounded like breathing, but like I said, there’s not much else it could really be.

I would say during your next attempts, once you get to this point, simply try and relax as much as you possibly can. Remember: The key here is to fall asleep very gradually. Falling asleep means your mind can’t be completely active.

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Don’t concentrated so much on keeping your eyes still, but to relax them, along with the rest of your body. :razz:

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That’s a good point I forgot to mention, your supposed to allow your complete body to relax to the point of being completely still. This means your eyes as well. To help them relax, before attempting WILD, roll your eyes in large circles, large enough circles that you should feel your eyes almost sort of “ache” when you spin them. After this, simply release your eyes, allow them to relax, and focus on your mind. They should be relatively still at this point, however they will be more relaxed later on during the process.

Then, you can begin the regression process, and hopefully attempt a successful WILD.

*Note: You wont always hear those noises. Sometimes, you can feel vibrations along your spine or another part of your body, sometimes you’ll hear these noises, or sometimes, you wont hear or feel anything.
However, these are warning signs. They tell you that you are about to enter an OBE, and that both your “astal” body and physical body are trying to seperate. It’s important to relax, and continue with your regression during this phase, or else you might slip from this phase back into the physical world. Simply wait, and if you relaxed enough, they should stop. Once this happens, do a reality check without moving, and see if your in the phase (the dream-realm) or not. It it works, then congratulations, you successfully entered an OBE :content:
Once you get good enough at WILD’ing and other OBE techniques, you will begin to see these symptoms less and less, and eventually, your body will be so used to them, they wont ever arise again. By that time though, you’ll know what to do when, and probably wont need them in the first place.

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You leave your physical body and fly around: OBE in a nutshell. I personally consider it a psychic ability.

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you can but as i read the line between LD’s and OOBE is very tiny so u got a change of getting an OOBE. i think repating i’m going to get a lucid dream will make the change bigger to get a LD instead of a OOBE but im a newbie, but this just sound logical to me