CasperKid

Days 15-22:

There has been no relative improvement in my ability to WILD. I am reading more literature and have gotten back to campus. After a week of the most stressful work I have had to do and no writing in my DJ, I have come back to square one and am reclaiming my desire to get this handled! I am starting to use indirect techniques, intention and affirmations before sleeping, and waking up with an alarm about 6 hours after falling asleep. As a general pattern, I will fall asleep anywhere from 11pm to 1am and set my alarm accordingly for approx. 6 hours after. From days 15-18 I was getting very horrible sleep. There would be no ability to stay asleep or fall asleep. I would end up needing to simply give up trying to sleep altogether in some instances.

My main problems are as follows:
1) When I try to go to sleep, I try too hard to focus on WILDing and remembering to wake up in the dream state. I do this right when I am falling asleep instead of after I have woken up 6 hours after sleeping.
2) I don't focus on relaxation and falling asleep, which keeps me awake. I am aggressively approaching this topic instead of letting the progress some as it will.
3) I am not keeping up with my journal daily. This includes my WILD journal and my Dream Journal.
4) I am not documenting my attempts and what I was doing each night of sleep to figure out patterns of success and failure.
5) I am not focused throughout the day on LDing.

My future solutions will be:
1) Relax at the beginning of the night. Keep the intention to LD, but do not focus on staying awake or prolonging consciousness at this point.
2) Wake up from the alarm without moving or opening the eyes. Perform cycles of indirect techniques and then separate.
3) Practice these techniques during the day.
4) Perform reality checks based on specific anchors (i.e. a bike, the moon, my hands, a girl)
5) Maintain my DJ and create a new thread for my WILD Journey that I will update daily.
6) Keep a positive outlook and become certain that I will LD. Imagine the experience happening and the benefits.