As I've been trying to LD the past few days, I've been sleeping later and later in the night. It seems that the problem was that I was focusing on trying to sleep rather than trying to relax. Before I just let sleep happen without incident. Well last night I tried something new...

I tried to hypnotize myself into sleep by saying and believing "As I count from 1 to 100 I fall into deeper sleep". Turns out that as I was counting (and breathing deeply), I remained conscious while falling asleep. And yet, as I lost focus of counting, I would become too awake. Eventually, when I got to 50s and 60s I began feeling the sensations of a WILD (vibrations, some HI). I lost my concentration when I focused on the vibrations. Then I realized I was relaxed and fell asleep. When I woke up it seemed that my dream recall had improved!

I'll keep you guys posted as I experiment a little more with this.