Thread: LD personal o2: WILD happens, when we learn how to fall asleep consciously

For me, both are involved, staying awake and falling asleep. Really for me, the main challenge is staying awake in the right way as the rest of me falls asleep. Different senses seem to go to "sleep" or disconnect at different times. It is important to let them disconnect from my consciousness while still keeping a thread of consciousness going. I often do the following but in life lots of different things happen when it comes to lucid dreaming:

First) Body asleep- this is often felt like at first my body feeling heavy and then later not feeling at all.
Second) Loss of hearing.
Third) Disconnecting of my eyes. THIS IS KEY for me, and one of the hardest things to do when transitioning into dream consciousness as I often just go to sleep and lose consciousness when this happens. I think it is because I am such a visual person and it is my primary sense. Thus my habit is "eyes awake=normal wakefullness", and so "eyes asleep = still awake" is very odd indeed, but I am getting more use to it and working on making a new habit.

When I am going into trance I will often see HI, but when this is happening it is like I almost have two vision screens. The first is basically the blackness that is my eyelids and the other is the screen the HI is projected on. I consider the HI to be projected on my dream screen, which is subtly different from how I normally see things while awake.

When my "eyes fall asleep" or disconnect from seeing my eyelids (not HI) and I have managed to keep a thread of consciousness continuous, then I am asleep and able to begin a lucid dream. Usually the more singularly concentrated this consciousness the better.

I know Clarity in her WILD technique says "shift/falling" sensation or "be pulled into" a dream and this seems like a great description to me and I have experienced both of these often. For me, I have a shift sensation often when after my eyes have disconnected. Often times, this shift feels really good and I have found that I quite like the transition from waking consciousness to lucid consciousness.

Uhm, I gather this is my take on lucid dreaming. It is very important to let the senses disconnect from consciousness (basically letting the body fall "asleep" including the eyes) while a person has kept their consciousness awake. It is then that the consciousness can enter into the experience of lucid dreaming. :-)

So, what are the best ways to stay awake? For me, I try to hold the thought that I am becoming lucid if I want to shift into a lucid dream. Or I can imagine looking at, feeling, or doing something and get sucked into a scene that is built around what I am imagining.

L&L