What are your WILD experiences like?

Howdy y'all,

I've gotten two notable WILDs as of recent, and both seem to have an interesting pattern. I hope I can get another WILD soon enough, as my dreaming practices have started to pay off quite a bit, but I've been curious about how others experience the transition from wakefulness to dreaming. I have a question for anybody who has experienced or regularly experiences WILDs:

-What does the transition look/feel like to you?

-Is there any recurring patterns in the way you transition?

-Do you experience hypnagogia prior to transitioning?

-Do you experience sleep paralysis prior to transitioning?

Additionally, I am interested in what happens shortly after the transition:

-Where have you appeared in?

-Do you often appear in the same place or is it different each time?

-Does it take a bit for certain senses to stabilize/manifest or do some senses fail to manifest without your input (i.e. you start by feeling numb then eventually regain feeling as the dream progresses or your vision is blurry until you put on glasses you spawn)

-Is the location you appear in light or dark?

-Are your memories/goals relatively intact? If not, what memories/goals stick around?

-Do you find it easier to manifest dream control in WILDs or DILDs. Does it take some time for dream control to manifest after the transition?

Finally, I'm interested in what method you used to achieve your WILD and how easy it is to replicate.

Please describe your experience in as much detail as you would like. I'm really interested in this topic and would greatly appreciate the answers. In the future, I want to try to run statistical analyses on the various LD induction methods by creating a survey. When I have more time I'll be sure to pop it here. As you might be able to tell, I'm pretty invested in the science behind this all.

There's a post limit per day so I'm just going to pop my experience in this post and try to answer my own questions.

From the two successful WILD induction attempts I've had, they have both been induced from sleep paralysis. Both occurred at the second REM stage using the LOVE method. The induction technique I used to achieve them both differed, with the first induced from the sudden sound of thunder and the second induced via IMP. Both were preceded by the use of CILD (counting method) and dreamwalker. Only in the first WILD did I experience hypnagogia prior to transitioning. In both, I experienced waking up into sleep paralysis, wherein I was in my room at night when I was suddenly engulfed in darkness. In the second WILD, upon realizing I was in sleep paralysis, I simply did IMP and was able to successfully enter a dream.

After the transition is where both diverge. In my first WILD, I was thrust into the darkness of space without gravity, whereas the second I got out of bed in my room. In only the second did I have the memory to do my proper reality checks. In both, however, my sense of touch and balance were the only senses that took some time to develop. In the second WILD, I was able to remember to do reality checks, but I did not remember my initial goals. My primary focus in both dreams was to escape from the situation I was in by either fighting my way out or flying to a different location. In both, my dream control was very high.