Spasms in legs when attempting to WILD or MILD

Quest for Lucidity
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Hi all, I’m new to the forum, but am not completely new to lucid dreaming in general. I’m seventeen now, and used to have lucid dreams quite often when I was younger (like before I was 10), and remember what they were like, but I can not replicate them.

    In the past few months I've been researching techniques to enter lucid dreams, I tried WBTB, but all that did was give me really vivid dreams, so I gave up on that technique.  I can't really tell if the method I'm working on now is MILD or WILD, but it involves lying on my back, and staying conscious, not moving, etc., either waiting for the hypnagognic stage so I can enter a lucid dream or the floating/falling sensations and sleep paralysis. 

        But whenever I try to do this, whenever I can start to feel my body getting numb and falling asleep, my legs will start to randomly spasm.  The spasms shake my whole body, and are extremely uncomfortable and unnerving, so much so that they always make me give up, roll over to my side, and go to sleep normally.  I can not find a way to get through these spasms or avoid them, I'm sure that some of you here have to know what I' talking about, do you have any suggestions?  I feel like they are the only thing preventing me from achieving lucidity, the rest of the process I can remember from childhood.
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i get that too! well mine arent so severe, just twitches of my legs or stomach…

but i discovered that they were happening because i was expecting it, and when i completely concentrated on my mind instead of my body, they stopped.

i hope that helps!!! :colgate:

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I’ve never really encountered severe spasms like that before. If I was in your position, I would try tensing all of the muscles in my body and the relaxing them, before starting the relaxation process. I’m not sure how much that would help though. If that didn’t work then perhaps you could try WILDing on your side, if you normally sleep on your side, you should also be able to WILD on it :smile: WILD doesn’t require you to be in a specific position. It can just help you stay aware sometimes if you make things slightly different to normal.

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I have not experienced spasms during WILD but I have experienced spasms in my legs before, I kinda like the feeling. It isn’t as severe as yours but my leg just randomly goes up and back down. It seems as if I think about doing it a millisecond before it actually happens. I just say “What the…?” lol.

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Hmm, I hadn’t ever considered trying to WILD on my side, I could try that I suppose, I just hope it doesn’t make me fall asleep too fast that way.