Originally posted by Merlock
My first problem though, is that I can't manage to trick my mind into thinking up the same relaxed imagery that I normally have before I fall asleep, because it KNOWS that I'm trying to WILD, and so it sits in anticipation of what it's supposed to already be doing.
The idea with WILD is to be passive about it. You're not trying to WILD, you're not doing anything, you should merely lay there and passively obvserve any hypnagogic imagery that may appear. Just lay there falling asleep and passively observe anything and everything in your mind. That's the overall sense of the WILD technique, the way I see it.
The three broad steps are: 1) relax 2) be passive and wait for hypnagogic imagery, then observe it passively 3) enter the dream by grabbing on to the imagery and pulling yourself in.

Apparently (and from my own experience) too much concentration keeps one awake...[/b]

do u have to wait for the image to appear in front of my eyes or in the back of my brain? because i have wild so many times and i cant get any images in front of my eyes