WILD to nightmare

After waking from a 4 hours and 30mins i had a poor dream recall, i knew i was dreaming but couldn’t focus on what. So i decided to write my thought and keep going, i prepared to fall asleep affirming myself to remember and experience a lucid dream.

i was thinking about WILD, i wanted to try it but felt nervous with the sensations people experience, but i went along. I made myself comfortable and kept counting 1… I’m dreaming 2 I’m dreaming and so on.

occasionally my muscles would twitch i heared sounds, see images that would make me loss my focus and get involved with them but i would regain focus and keep counting, every 60 seconds i would reset because i would loss count.

after a bit i felt like i was still awake and that WILD wasn’t working but i start suddenly experiencing i weird feeling.

I look at my hands and they look like paper, i feel dizzy start warping around from one place to the next… but not physically it’s really hard to describe.
i keep trying to RC but sometimes i would have no arms or hands, i try to focus but i just can’t focus on a physical reference.

I’m thinking OK this WILD is to much for me right now, i’m going to get up.
I go to my computer but suddenly the warping comes back and i feel like I’m losing my mind… it would see a frightening figure of a dark Knight.
I’m thinking how do i stop this… suddenly i wake up in the exact position i was doing WILD.

then i realized wow incredible that was a dream! or more like a nightmare… =P

what are your thoughts of this experience everyone?
was it borderline lucid and FA?

anyway i woke up 1 hour later, I’m planning to stay up for 90mins and fall back to sleep trying WBTB as my final attempt for today’s lucid dreaming.

Congrats :tongue: if you had realized that all that weird stuff (specially the knight!) where a dream you’d get lucid. No worries, just a little more practice!

One thing though, if you heard sounds or saw images, that’s good! It’s a good idea to watch these passively, without getting too involved. Maybe repeating “I’m dreaming” will help you not lose consciousness. Then you just wait and let it do it’s thing!

Although the feelings can be very strange and alien, you get used to them with some more experience, they can even become fun! and if you are able to realize all of that is already a dream (or a “pre-dream”) then there’s no nightmare! :smile:

One way or another you got into the dream, which is much better than staying there counting to 300 with no result. :wink: Keep it up!