Thread: What am I doing wrong?

Don't focus on paralyzing the body, it's something that happens automatically as you fall asleep.

To focus on that would sort of be like focusing on sweating when you are out running, "How do I get my whole body to sweat? I just manage to make my head sweat, but I want my whole body to sweat!"

Odd analogy maybe, but the point is that you need to change focus.

Focus on your goal, do you want to be paralyzed or do you want to dream?

If you want to dream, just close your eyes and start to direct your awareness to the internal world.

Daydream until it takes on a life on it's own and gets self-sustaining, you don't need to look for signs of this, it will be very clear when that happens.

Someone said I should put a ticking clock next to me. Fantasize or think about a dream it'd be nice to have while relaxing, every now and then pay attention to the ticking clock so I don't fall asleep, then back to fantasizing. I think that would distract me from my body best-that's how I always fall asleep at night, normally and the clock would be my 'anchor'. I didn't fantasize before because various people said that's bad...

Originally Posted by MasterMind

Don't focus on paralyzing the body, it's something that happens automatically as you fall asleep.

To focus on that would sort of be like focusing on sweating when you are out running, "How do I get my whole body to sweat? I just manage to make my head sweat, but I want my whole body to sweat!"

Odd analogy maybe, but the point is that you need to change focus.

Focus on your goal, do you want to be paralyzed or do you want to dream?

If you want to dream, just close your eyes and start to direct your awareness to the internal world.

Daydream until it takes on a life on it's own and gets self-sustaining, you don't need to look for signs of this, it will be very clear when that happens.

Last night, I woke up naturally after about 4 hours of sleep. I sort of.. 'fell asleep' while relaxing and I could hear my heart beat really loud, so I had awareness. I guess that's what you mean. Like 50% of my body became instantly paralyzed but I just ended giving up after nothing else happened for 5-10 minutes. I'll just keep trying, thanks for the advice guys.