Hello everyone!
Two nights in a row now I have experienced something weird. Since I have not had much success with WILDs in the early mornings I decided to try it when I went to bed for a couple of nights (even though it should be alot harder). Anyhow, I find it easier for my mind to drift at night than when I wake up after 4-5 hours of sleep.
Aaanyhow, both nights I drifted a bit to far and fell asleep, but it must have been a very light sleep because I woke up about 5-10 minutes later, the interesting thing is that when I know im awake I can feel my body vibrating, like Im lying in a car that is driving across a bumpy road. This happened to me both nights, but as soon as I notice the vibrations they fade away and im wide awake.
I know that these vibrations can occur when trying WILD, but why do I feel them when im waking up? Is it because of SP leaving me or something? They feel so real that I had to sit up one night because I thought I was experiencing an earthquake or something IRL.
I think that these vibrations are the shift between the sensation of your physical body and your dreambody, the shift of perspective. Now you experience both when drifting off and when waking up cuz in both of them you are shifting… But that’s just my view.
I like that description! I believe I get something like this myself before initiating an Out of Body Experience-- which scientific-minded lucid dreamers consider another kind of lucid dream, so you may find it a technique worth developing.
Spiritualists call this pre-OBE experience, “vibration”, but my toothbrush vibrates. It goes buzzzzzz. This isn’t “vibration,” this feels more as if (my own clumsy description:) “someone took hold of my bed’s headboard or footboard, thrust against the frame, pulled back, and thrust again in quick succession, to shake the frame violently. The world around me just went Thudthudthud…”
Interesting, I have heard about OBE’s, but I never experienced one. But still im not transitioning into an OBE or Lucid dream when I feel these, Im simply waking up. But maybe it is still the same, only that im transitioning OUT of something when I realize it?
That’s my guess. Robert Monroe’s first OBE account (almost 10 minutes long but I’d just skip ahead to 5:08 ) is an interesting watch, if you’re interested.
Until we can replicate Dr. Charles Tart’s “25132” experiment every time, it is for most intents and purposes just another kind of lucid dream. (But yes, I think it is too. )
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