Thread: Can't fall back asleep when trying to DEILD

What you are doing sounds more like a WBTB, if you are spending an hour lying in bed.

I like to use reverse blinking to fall back to sleep. I use it during those WILD attempts when I'm just too wired to fall back asleep for whatever reason. B vitamins or too much alcohol the evening before, or GM, or stressful thoughts, or whatever.

Try a couple different relaxation tricks like the 61 point technique, or reverse blinking to find what works best for you.

There really shouldn't be a need for any techniques to fall back asleep if you have performed DEILD correctly. The only thing you should have to do is either think about your previous dream or visualize a new one.

It shouldn't take more than 30 seconds, certainly no more than a minute.