Quote Originally Posted by McDreamy View Post
Interesting thoughts about just letting things happening, REM, and your awakenings. I think one of my issues right now is that I am waking up after a REM cycle, or somewhere during NREM (I have a superficial knowledge of sleep cycles, though). Autosuggestion is waking me up, and I am sometimes able to remain completely still and keep my eyes shut, but usually nothing happens. Having no more REM left in the cycle as you mentioned could be why.

Perhaps this is not the explanation, but just in case I may try multiple DEILD attempts in a night. If the first fails, I will reset the intention to awaken, etc, until eventually it will be in a REM dominated phase of sleep. Alternatively, I am too alert upon waking for whatever reason. I am not sure if this makes sense for real, or just in my head.
I did more DEILDing recently. I woke from a kind of short dream and then was in and out of a dream or feeling like I was in my bed. It was back and forth and I would just stay still becuase that's what I do to practice dream recall anyways. But then I would pop into another dream, still recollecting the previous dream, when I would realize, "wait! Another dream has begun!" and do some more stuff.

Sometimes between DEILD dreams I will feel vibrations and that kind of thing. The Michael Raduga channel was one that called the whole thing "The phase". So I guess he was saying if you're in "the phase" you could enter a dream (or OBE) from there. But once "the phase" ends then the person has to wait til the next time they wake up from sleep to have another chance. And then DEILD is to WILD as the "indirect method of OBE" is to the "direct method of OBE".

I don't know if any of that helps though LOL! But I hope you find what works.