Hi, I just want to know if this is just me or if it happens to other people…
For some reason every time I nap or every time I do WBTB, I will get a very very strong pressure in the head right before falling asleep, it is almost my own way of knowing I´m on the verge of falling asleep. This pressure feels like if I had someone pressing on my head with both hands extremely hard, so hard I can’t even move my head or my mouth… my head is completely paralized however the rest of my body is free to move. The thing is, I get this pressure every time I feel very tired! (whenever I nap is because I’m feeling tired, and also in WBTB my body feels the same way)… also this pressure appears sometimes between 10 or 15 minutes after laying down while I am completely relaxed.
What I do is that as soon as I feel this huge pressure, I just imagine myself separating from my physical body and in a few seconds I’m in a lucid dream in which I’m standing next to my bed. however I don’t feel this to be an OBE because I can’t see my physical body next to me (or at least I havent noticed it) and everything just feels exactly like an LD. Generally during naps these are low level LDs and I have a hard time making them high level. but in WBTB they are high level mostly.
I want to know if this happens to anyone else, because I feel it is just a strange way to have LDs… sometimes I’m not even sure if it is such a good idea for me to have this strong pressures in the head and that I might be hurting myself or something… its just that with this method, I have a 95%-100% success rate in LDing every night.
Yeah i thought about that too however it’s not only that i can’t move my head but the really intense pressure on my head is what confuses me… It’s not painfull just extremely intense
Well you are lucky because many people while doing WILD they don’t know how or more often when to make a transition.
In your case you use this head pressure as a sign when to make a transition. I use another body sensation like vibrating and really intense feeling throughout my whole body.
Oh, and this pressure is only a hallucination. So don’t worry about it…
This can be tricky specially if you get enough night sleep and then in nap time REM is not strong as when doing WBTB. So that’s why is actually good to practice LD after a few cycles and not at the beginning of the night…
ok so I just had 6 LDs in one single nap… this is insane! … and it was so easy! I just felt the pressure and immediately rolled out of my body and appeared in an LD, did this 6 times in a row… this were all upper medium level LDs though, maybe one of them was high… I wish they were all high!.. the shouting of “increase lucidity now!” worked wonders though… anyways, I wish there was a simple way to explain this so everyone can have them! but dB_FTS might be right… it might be just my own personal WILD sign to make the transition… anyways, I feel so incredibly happy because I’m having various LDs a day, this is something I have been striving for a very long time.
If you don’t already have a dream journal on the forum, it would be great to make one. That way we could all enjoy your success. (Besides, I like to read other people’s dreams… )
Pressure in the head, eh? I can’t say it has happened to me before, but this topic has led me to look for any patterns that might be occurring when I fall asleep. If there is a “key” to WILD then I had better start looking for it.
Sounds like an interesting variation on WILDing: Signal-WILD. Who knows?
I’m very unsuccessful in lucid dreaming. I’ve had maybe 2 very small, uneventful ones. However, I’ve had this pressure sensation MANY times… In fact, it was so uncomfortable, I just decided to stop trying to LD for that night because I didn’t think it was going anywhere. I never looked at it as being an exit sign… I guess I’ll be more aware of this next time it happens… Thanks for the idea!
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