Have you tried sleeping in a position you don't usually fall asleep in? Like for example I find it 10x more difficult to fall asleep on my back, maybe opposite for you. |
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What are some ways of keeping yourself awake enough to control drifting off into sleep? My usually favorite techniques of SSILD and WILD are not working these days because any lapses in an intention to keep myself awake will cause me to fall asleep within a minute or even 30 seconds. First I lose focus very quickly, then I just sleep. It's as if that just before sleep state overpowers my intentions no matter what. |
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Have you tried sleeping in a position you don't usually fall asleep in? Like for example I find it 10x more difficult to fall asleep on my back, maybe opposite for you. |
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Yes ^^^. But also, this can be a HUGE advantage if you learn how to take advantage of it. One way is by using anchors, kinda like mantras. They are designed to pull you back into awareness once your're body is asleep. Check them out. |
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"If we doubted our fears instead of doubting our dreams, imagine how much in life we'd accomplish." ~Joel Brown
"Your background and circumstances may have influenced who you are, but you are responsible for who you become." ~Darren Hardy
Goals:
-Become Lucid in every dream every night
-Perfect the time dilation watch
-Continue to have a dream plan for most of my lucid dreams
Thanks. It is my mind that seems to fall asleep before my body. So some anchors may help. |
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Being able to WILD is being able to "feel" the right amount of awake and asleep. Should I apply more SSILD or more awareness? This will come with experience. Practice practice practice. Try and WILD as many times a night as you can if you want to get good at it. Make sure to practice DILD and WILD at the same time so you can compile experience from both. |
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I'll take another look at DILD. SSILD is sold as a magic bullet technique but I don't believe in magic bullets so I'll alter it any way that works. |
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One change is being with one of the domains of sensation for 30 seconds or more is too long. I need something a little quicker and something cognitive. If I miss a beat, I just go into that fog of sleep rapidly. |
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Sounds like you changed it in other ways too. |
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Yep. My technique is for my mind. You can get ideas from it, but by copying it 100%, you will never be able to do what I do 100%. You can only do your own thing 100%. Ssild is a good way to start with practicing falling asleep, but you should still do something for recall, something for awareness, and keep a good sleep schedule. Ssild is a helper, but without prior experience or work during, it is useless. Try to break something down in a way that makes sense to you and lose what doesn't make a difference to you. Search for the feeling in between asleep and awake, not a technique for it. The tech will guide you to the feeling. |
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I think Cosmiciron's claim of helping other to achieve lucidity nearly 100% of the time is not due to SSILD being a magical technique (it does do a sort of priming and high recall effect that other techniques don't do so much) but because he was able to take one technique and tweak it for others just right until they could take it in personally. This obsession with finding the perfect acronym is absurd. I think that there are generally two main ways to lucid dream: prospective menory techniques: such as MILD, and direct ones: WILD, DEILD, SSILD... |
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I would just like to add one thing--often your body will give you cues that you are about to fall asleep. For instance, I always notice my breathing becomes deep and regular, even if I feel wide awake. At this point I know sleep is imminent, even if it does not feel like it. From here, for instance, I may decide to drop my mantra (if I am MILDing) and allow it to continue in the background (sort of like an echo) and allow myself to fall asleep. But I may also decide to rouse myself, and do another cycle of affirmations if my intent (and my echo) feels too weak. If this is too much, psychologically, to handle, I may try to WILD. But this is an example. Basically, this: |
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Last edited by ThreeCat; 08-10-2014 at 02:41 AM.
I have had several dozen LD's since I began practicing it several years ago, it's just extremely inconsistent. I'll have a good week, then no LD's for months. I think following the standard guidelines is not helping anymore. |
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Thanks 3cat. |
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Last edited by Sensei; 08-10-2014 at 03:52 AM.
I also fall asleep while attempting WILD. Of course there should be practice, practice, practice! |
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maybe this will help ? http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...then-wild.html |
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Oh, so this could serve as replacement for WILD Anchors? |
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Last edited by MisakaMikoto; 08-10-2014 at 04:15 PM.
I'm back! Again? Uhhh..
I tried this technique with combination of watching shiny dots behind the eye lids and it was GREAT! It was the first few times I experienced SP without falling sleep! But it should be combined with WBTS. Although it wasn't a full WILD experience, but it took me to a very deep trance which is ideal for self hypnosis. |
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Do you just do the eye technique once until your eyes center and you fall asleep? Or do you repeat it? |
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Hi, |
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Last edited by MisakaMikoto; 08-13-2014 at 11:39 PM.
I'm back! Again? Uhhh..
I can't give an answer better than what MisakaMikoto did. |
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