That's how to operate something. I know that if I press this key a letter will come up, etc etc.

If you blindly try to follow a technique then it wont work. Like say someone told me the basics of WBTB: Get up at night, wake up your brain, then go back to sleep into a REM.

Now I could do that at 2am and only stay up for 5 seconds. That wouldn't work because I didn't understand the rest of the method.

I don't understand the rest of this method and it seems less and less worth it the more time I spend on it. Is it just you who can do this or how many other people are able and understanding of this method?