Breaking illusions: Focus on something you cannot change...
Most of the time, when you fail wild, it is becouse one of these two reasons:
1. You are too bored, or distracted by bodily sensations, you give up
2. You fall asleep within an attempt lost in your hypnagogic imagery
Most of the successfull WILDers have methods which they use to cross transitional stage of WILD as described in seekers five stages of wild:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=9806
Some people use counting, some people construct their dream scene and some people just passively observe coming imagery. Today I readed an interesting topic written by Billybob, where he mentions using an anchor, which holds the consciousness stable, when transition stage occurs. He recommends using pain.
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=62282
After reading this article and thinking about it a little, one big illusion was broken:
Why to focus on something volatile, if there are more stable places to focus on
I usually focused on counting, but well. As counting is created by consciousness, everytime consciousness wanders, counting wanders too. Everytime i focused on imagery, it made me loose consciousness.
Every guide writes the same thing: be Passive observer. But you cannot be passive observer, when you cannot hold yourself on something more stable, and even better: External..
I can clearly recall one of my unintentional WILDs, when i was really tired,and was travelling by train. The only think which held my consciousness aware was that tiny little back ache, caused by sitting in uncomfortable chair.
Next time, when you will be doing WILD, please think carefully what you will use as your anchor in wild transition stage, where everything internal collapses.
After reading Billys guide, I would recommend something what does not fall asleep with you.
