No dreams tonight, but rather, a strange and frankly slightly scary incident. I attempted a WILD (Wake-Induced Lucid Dream) last night as I was first falling asleep (which is apparently a no-no, as WILDs are much easier after 4-6 hours of sleep followed by 30-45 minutes of relaxing activity, such as reading a paper book) and as my body was falling asleep, my right cheek began to go numb. I wasn't too concerned; bodily numbness is a symptom of sleep paralysis, which meant I was on the right track. After a while, though, the numbness refused to move beyond the tip of my chin, my cheekbones, and the edge of my jaw, and it felt like someone stuck a huge needle in there. I did my absolute best to ignore it, but then it began to feel like someone was moving the needle around in my jaw. Up and down, left and right, forwards and back, and it hurt. Like, the painful numbness of freshly-frozen gums. I endured it as long as I could, and even got the needle feeling to disappear through willpower, leaving only the numbness, not once, but twice. However, it always returned, and I eventually succumbed to the pain, abandoning my attempts to lucid dream and just sleeping normally. I've been looking up what might have caused it, and it could have been a hypnagogic hallucination (which would have meant I was on the verge of a lucid dream), but if hypnagogic hallucinations are that painful for me I should probably just give up. If anyone knows anything that could possibly help me get rid of or at least avoid this pain, please, please tell me.