If you focus too hard on the HI then they'll put you to sleep. I use them in the beginning, but when I feel like I'm losing consiousness I try not to focus on them so much and maintain conciousness by telling myself to relax or repeating things in my head like "I'm about to enter a dream." Then I try to concentrate more on how my body feels then what I see. When I feel vibrations and then my body is paralyzed I either get up or sink into my bed (figuratively in both cases, of course).

Until the last couple of times I liked the sinking better because I ended up in an unknown dream scene, whereas getting out of bed the dream always started in my bedroom. I'm not so sure now, because a couple of WILD's ago I had this thought as I was sinking through my bed that I was going into the underworld. Well, guess where I ended up - that's right, hell. Happened the next time as well, so I'm not liking the sinking thing so much right now.