Quote Originally Posted by Avian View Post
I read somewhere that sleep paralysis is much more common among back sleepers. Many lucid dream techniques seem to be purposed for doing on your back, or at least that's what it seems like. Being a side sleeper, I find that when I am on my side my thoughts drift much more easily. I usually do WILD and other such things on my back because it seems correct, but still doesn't work. Am I doing this wrong, or is there some connection between back sleeping and lucid dreaming? Any regular lucid dreamers out there who never sleep on their back?
I never slept on my back until I started to WILD. I WILD on my back with my sofa in reclining position plus 2-3 pillows. So I am about half sitting, half laying down.

Reasons:

1. Sleeping in different position and in different place than you normally do tells your mind that you not just going to sleep normally

2. It does keep you aware a bit longer so you don't fall asleep too soon

3. Sleeping reclined is conductive to WILDs/OBEs from what I have read

4. It seems to work for me, haha

I used to stay on my back, reclined and I had great success. Only recently I started to turn to my left side when I got close to falling asleep and to my surprise I still get WILDs like that. Surprise, because I used to do that but without much success. Ofc, there are so many more variables in play during a WILD that one can never be sure why success/failure.

On my last attempt I turned to my right side while still staying reclined and I got a WILD again.

I recall reading that man should sleep on their right side while woman on their left. Not sure how much this matters, so you may wanna experiment with it.

This said, people do get lucid and WILDs in all kinds of positions, including position in which they sleep normally. So it can be very personal and one can experiment to find what works best for us.