Conciousness: Give in order to Get. Falling asleep easily for LDer and non-LDer

[Spyguy]

I'm going to share a technique that brought me from regular lucids (2 per week on average I think) to almost nightly. I am not exactly certain why it works, but I might post a theory later on in this tutorial (don't worry, it won't be a long one). Now, every night we humans go to sleep. Even the best of natural LDers loses conciousness between falling a sleep and his first REM. Most of us don't regain it during REM either (or only a part of the time, we LDers aim to get this conciousness in ofcourse). So basically, we all temporarily lose our conciousness. What you want to do, is to just give it up right away. Accept that you are going to lose it, and then lose it yourself, instead of waiting for it to happen. A little metaphor to make this more clear: View yourself as a person, your conciousness as an object held in your hand and sleep as a person who comes to take the object from you. There are multiple things that can happen. Some people are really afraid to lose conciousness, so they grip tightly onto the object. That makes it harder for Sleep to take it, but it happens either way ofcourse. Not a lot of people have that. The biggest part of humanity just holds it until Sleep comes and takes the object. They don't particularly grip it tightly, but they don't really let go of it either. Some grip a bit tighter than others (concious or unconcious). These people fall asleep faster than the people in the former category, but not as quik as the ones in the follow, namely... The people who throw the object at Sleep before he is even standing before you. You know you are going to lose conciousness temporarily either way, so why waste effort on holding the 'object' in your hand? That is really all there is to it. Just 'give up' your conciousness. Basically, you will know you have thoughts, but you don't really 'hear' them. It is a lot like the free-floating state of mind you need for WILD. If you really have no idea how to achieve it, even after trying to 'just throw your conciousness away', meditation can be a great help to teach you this. The good thing is that it can be combined with any technique. Why does it work though? It could be because your lose your concious with more confidence. 'I'm going to lose it either way, so let's go ahead and lose it already' is quite similiar to 'I'm going to get lucid either way, let's go ahead and fall into my dreamworld already'. but I'm not really sure. All I know is that is helped with my LD count and might help you too, and that it is certain to help you fall asleep more quikly. Please let me know how it goes. Any comments, questions, etc. are welcome! Questions about unrelated subjects are also welcome, but plz PM those instead of posting them here. I'd prefer this thread to be about this only Good luck!