Thread: Ok,I want to try the WBTB method but I have a problem.

Heres a solution: Wake up for a shorter amount time and go to bed sooner. Works for me half of the time. I think what happens is that I expect my self to have a lucid dream a particular night and no matter how short I stay up I still have several lucid dreams. Try this and let me know how it works for you.

Also, you don't have to do MILD, WILD, or HILD when you are doing WBTB. It helps but for me I found that I don't need to do it.

So try to stay out of bed shorter and see how that works.

I'll try it but I'm not sure it will work beacause once I'm out of bed,its really hard to get back to sleep.

Try staying in bed and not getting out. Then try to go back to sleep. That works for me too.

Well,then what do I do? Just lay there? I always do that when I wake up at night and I havn't had a lucid dream.

I think everyone here needs to learn how to go to sleep. Maybe everyones gettin too excited, or too ahead of themselves. I jsut lay there, dont stress, and asleep I go. And with only 5 hours of sleep my bodies still tired. My guess is most of you would be able to sleep fine if it weren't for the fact that you were trying to sleep.

I have been having trouble falling asleep forever. I just can't stop thinking "gotta go to sleep"

How long do you take to fall back to sleep. Are there any drinks you can drink to make you tired. Anyone have any suggestions.

What if you try a sleeping pill? Just a suggestion.

It takes me usually an hour or more to fall asleep at night. umm...I don't like warm milk(eww) or tea(someone suggested that)

I'm on enough medication as it is. I don't think my parents would let me take anything else.

Hmm, try not waking up just staying asleep. I should rename it the Bed Method. LOL.

I tend to wake up several times during the night and I sometimes have spontaneous ld's.

Any other suggestions anyone might have?

How would just sleeping even make it a method Lol That doesn't make any sense.

taking melatonin at night keeps me tired when I wake up after just 5 hours. When I take 3mg I stay a bit tired physically for 8 hours at least. Thats a bit more natural, and maybe you coud try that. Of course its good to figure out a way to fall aleep without any pills. When I was an insomniac back in the day, I used relaxing music. Used to be the only way I could fall asleep. Id put in a cd and fall asleep usually half-way thorugh it. And by the time I got used to doing that, Id fall asleep after just one song.

My parents don't want me to become dependent on medication so they would never let me take sleeping pills.

Well if it takes you an hour to fall asleep, that's really not a problem. Most of the people here are teenagers, which I think is the reason they have trouble falling asleep. Just DON'T think "I have to fall asleep." Why would you think that unless you had something URGENT to go to early in the morning?

it takes me for about an hour to fall asleep.

Hmm, try not waking up just staying asleep. I should rename it the Bed Method. LOL. [/b]

I think he means, right when you wake up, dont move, close your eyes and think lucid, or stay aware. You can have WILD's like that sometimes or just get lucid right after the dream starts. Might be a good idea for someone who has trouble falling back asleep.

TBM? -(the bed method)

I think "I have to fall asleep" because I have school in the morning(during the school time) and my dad nags me and nags me to get up int the morning and I am usually really tired and not ready to get up because I couldn't stop falling asleep. Plus,if I don't get enough sleep,I get a headache.

oh...maybe i'll try that

try looking at messsage boards during the day and when you go asleep you dont even ahve to get out of bed, just stay in bed and try your best to be calm and fall asleep again. This works for me like half of the time i do it.

Isn't there a thread on inducing sleep?

hahahah, The Bed Method. I like it. Just FYI i am 20 yrs old. Just to let you people know. Im still pretty young. 8)

I'm thinking that I will be able to become lucid tonight since last night,I told myself "remember your dream" and I did!!! And I havn't in a really long time. So if I tell myself to become lucid then maybe I'll become lucid. Or,if I keep reminding myself next time I see one of my dream signs,I'm dreaming then I can become lucid.

Exaclty you are on the right track. Your expecting to have a lucid dream plays a key role in having a lucid dream. Thats why I think the WBTB works well for me even if I dont do a mild or wild after I wake up. Cuz I am setting my self up for a lucid dream by thinking in advance and also by reading about articles online that helps.

Good Luck Tonight and keep us possted on your progess.