Most of the time when i try to WILD i end up getting this very weird feeling/sensation that i am 100x bigger than myself and it’s almost impossible to describe this feeling. It is more intense when i move my tongue up against the sides of my mouth.
I used to get this feeling every few weeks as a child(only when i’m in bed or sleep-related times). and I haven’t had it in years until about 2 weeks ago. I immediately got this feeling as soon as i got into bed and i was imagining myself float out of myself, through the floors of the building and up into the sky. up through the clouds, into space and i kept getting bigger after that. until i was the universe.
It’s been happening almost every night now that i’ve been trying the WILD technique. i’m really excited about this feeling when it happens 'cause deep down i know it’s something extraordinary. is it an OBE?
although, i don’t have any visualizations during this sensation recently. it’s mostly just black in my mind.
BUT last night it was very intense. I had the feeling/sensation start. i kept focusing on my mind’s eye. trying to figure out what was happening. suddenly a massive amount of images/memories/feelings starts flashing by as if i was going through an entire art gallery of paintings in just a few seconds. hundreds upon hundreds of images flying past in my head. i couldn’t control it. it was so exciting but intense at the same time.
can someone please tell me what this is that i am experiencing? i love it! but i’d like some explanations and maybe how to expand on this? i really don’t know.
Well the most logical explanation(and I’m not going further then that) that those are HH. They happened to me a lot and they are different for everyone. That means that you are very close to a transition from waking state to a dream state.
But you are doing a little mistake. I know how appealing HH can be and I understand that you enjoy in them but remember that the lucid dream is your ultimate goal, not the HH’s… So make a transition next time you are experiencing such sensations…
Here’s my post on another topic but it also answers your question.
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I agree with this post. I would only add that you are not in SP until you dream. So there are extreme cases where person find itself in SP, sometimes(most common) upon waking up and sometimes before reaching dream state but completely healthy person will not enter SP until dream state, because that’s the only purpose of SP - to paralyze you so you can’t act out your dreams…
If you don’t believe that whenever you think you are in SP try to move, if you can easily move every time you try it that it’s not SP…
Vibrations, buzzing, tingling, visual things and other are not SP, they are only something that happens before falling asleep/SP/entering dream state and they are great indicator that you are on the right track to enter SP, therefore dream.
Once you start to experience those sensations you can do everything that is said before to make a transition. Most of the times I don’t struggle with that, I just let myself to fall asleep and by doing that I’m doing myself a favor, why? Well for the simplest explanation. To dream you need to fall asleep. The thing is to be conscious long enough to experience vibrations, buzzing, tingling, visual things and others because that means that you are only one steep far from a nice and awesome lucid dream…[/spoiler]
Also very common ways are rolling on your side or sinking into bed or lifting up your body. Those are all sensations that you need to make in your mind and get the impression of the sensation… or you can do what I wrote in spoiler…
Ohhh, once i start feeling the numbness and tingling and stuff i just let myself fall asleep? Also, before that i’ve been having troubles with my eyes. usually when i am watching the HI before the sensations, my eyes are flickering alot and sometimes my eyes open and i lose concentration. or i have rapid eye movements while im trying to relax and focus. is it supposed to be like that? or do i concentrate on the HI and my eyes arent supposed to move?
Well the thing with eyes is somewhat common but not really. I’ve never experienced that but I’ve read that you need to blink repeatedly before attempting a technique to prevent that. Also HH should be just observed, not interacting with them, because if you do that you may find yourself caught in the middle and actually forget your goal. When you interact with HH’s you usually have 2 outcomes:
you lose awareness and wake up or enter dream non lucid
(when you are more experienced with interacting with HH’s) you can make HH’s to form into dream
About falling asleep - you need to find a right moment to do that because if you don’t you will fall asleep not making a direct transition. Keeping your mind awake that long may help you to become lucid later in a dream or you may be lucky and be lucid from the start but the thing is you need to find the fine line between being awake and falling asleep.
In my case I usually know when that moment is because I focus on body sensations. I literally shot down all visual hallucinations and focus only on body sensations because now I have one thing that tells me when to make a transition, with visual or sound hallucinations I never knew when’s the right time. So when I start to feel heavy vibrations and tingling sensations I know that this is the moment to make a transition. But I always keep in my mind a thought/autosuggestion: “I will fall asleep now consciously and I will be in a dream.”
Why consciously? Well because I made that choice that I will fall asleep, it didn’t happened by chance I decided to fall asleep, if you know what I mean.
And you can also try other techniques, they may work. You just need to experiment and see what works best for you!
