Thread: How can I fall asleep while thinking about dreams?

Uhhhh, I find that when I am thinking about remembering that I am dreaming and am focusing on the light at the back of my eyes I cannot fall asleep. I can feel my body relax and my eyes "crust" up but I cannot fall asleep.

Obviously this causes me to lose sleep. I'm pretty sure some of you have had this problem and I was wondering what you do to fix it.

The best way for me is to not think about it at first. I just try to clear my mind, which takes some time becuase I'm not that good at it yet. When mind is clear, then I remind myself that I'm going to start dreaming soon. I just say it once, then I clear my mind again and drift off to sleep. This works for me, or, atleast it worked for my last lucid dream.

maybe try and take up meditation? it will help "train" your brain on focusing and filtering.

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Lowercase is right, meditation can help you. In a way what you have is a mixed blessing. Many people actually just fall sleep. Since you don't fall sleep, you can use your ability to follow hynaptogonic imagery and enter a dream from waking.

I usually talk my body asleep with my mind's voice. I go through each body part and tell it to relax starting with my toes and ending with my head. Then I just relax everything and breathe. A lot of times, I'll see the very beginnings of a dream - barely realizing I am actually falling asleep - and I'll wake myself up from it by sort of flickering my eyes. I wish I wouldn't do this because if I didn't, I could probably learn to do WILD. I haven't been successful with it as of yet, but I hope to be in the near future.