Thread: LD personal o3: We fall asleep. And our senses are strenghtened

As we fall asleep in an attempt to WILD, our thoughts are focused. No longer do we fret over tomorrow's share of work, or the gossip of a friend, or a deadline looming in the future. Instead, we dedicate ourselves to ourselves, focusing on relaxing the body.

Without the constant focus on these extraneous thoughts, we begin to notice again the senses we've forgotten in the day. During the day, we're usually too caught up in life to recognize our senses unless they relate to our current course of action or thought. At night, and with a mind focused on consciousness, we notice these things again.

I've never successfully WILDed before, only trying it a couple times before deciding I prefer other methods, but one obvious explaination presents itself to me.

When you are WILDing, there are very few changes in your senses, and there is usually little to sense. Your eyes are closed, so you see only darkness, you remain still, so that your sense of touch isn't registering much that's new, it's night, so everything's much quieter, and obviously smell and taste aren't doing much. With so little sensory information coming in, the little things are just much easier to notice, since there isn't much to drown them out. Since there is so little of interest going on with your senses while WILDing, they pick up all kinds of little things that would otherwise be overlooked if there were more interesting or noticeable things to sense.

I have to agree with abra sleep helps to sharpen senses probably due to concentration however I also have a theory that It could have to due with how we're programed to listen intenly maybe for predetors. Or perhaps because its becauses its quiet any little noise really jumps out at you like a gunshot would during the day because its above the reagular volume of things and alerts your mind to it like Serith said. If those theories hold any water Some kind of white noise generator like a fan or something might help wild attemps of you get to distracted.

I' d better not quote, becouse i would quote every topic here. We are nearing the answer to the topic.

Maybe we the senses are strenghtened becouse of concentration, maybe becouse of the genes. And maybe one explanation is the cause and another is the effect.