Hello LD4All people! I’ve been away for…maybe a year? Probably more, sadly. I’ve been straying from the land of dreams lately, but enough of that.
Last night I decided to go to bed early, spent about an hour reading, and randomly decided to start some chakra meditation that I could barely remember because I felt a need for some sort of meditation. I think I started that around 11:45 pm.
Anyways, I was just a little ways through the meditation when I somehow noticed I was falling asleep. I didn’t want to leave the meditation half done, so I put a lot of mental effort into staying awake while staying perfectly still for the meditation. I managed to finish the meditation in this state, but started feeling…odd, towards the end. That’s when I realized what was actually happening, I was starting to fall asleep while conscious. Excitement, the bane of lucid dreamers everywhere.
At that point, I was starting to see a sort of three dimensional space forming in my vision, and I’m quite sure I was close to dreaming. That faded and for the rest of my attempt, I could hear the sounds of the house amplified (which was vaguely frustrating and distracting). I spent a good hour longer perfectly still, keeping my mind aware, and felt various sensations, from numbness to not being able to tell where my hands or arms were to a sense of being twisted. I eventually had to give up because I was getting a headache.
Ah goodness, this looks like my old posts, wordy and overly descriptive. XP Good to know I’m still me.
Anyway, anyone who has actually had more success with WILD-ing, how close do you think I came? It was interesting because I’ve tried using this method via meditation in the past, but never got anywhere with it. I’ve never managed to hold myself awake like that before.