Thread: Best Position for a WILD

Well you want to stay awake, so I would say back. Uncomfortable makes it hard to focus

Any time I've had success WILDing it was when I was laying on my back. I think it's really all personal preference.

Woman on top. Or wait....is this the "Girls Gone WILD" forum? Oops....sorry.

I can WILD lying on my back or on my side. It doesn't matter to me but I have a slight preference for being on my back as it slows down the process of falling asleep a little making me more likely to become lucid.

Napping on your sides lets you fall asleep and wake up faster.
But that's for napping.

I usually try to WILD on my back.

Quote out of Dream Yoga and the Practise of Natural Light: (the visualization practise this guy is talking about is described earlier in the book, it's a method to get into a WILD)

What position you use while practicing this visualization is not ultimately important. Many people
do this visualization practice after they are lying in bed. You must see what kind of person you are.
One person may fall asleep merely by shutting his or her eyes, while another person might need to
take a sleeping pill.

Let us take the example of the person who lies down and immediately fells asleep. If this person
becomes distracted from his or her practice for a moment, he or she is already asleep. This is the type
of person for whom a particular physical position might be useful. If the practitioner is a male it may
be beneficial for him to lie on his right side. Assuming he does not have a cold which has blocked his
breathing, it might also be useful for him to close the right nostril with his hand.
For women, the position is reversed. A woman should lie on her left side and try to block her left
nostril. I am not saying to stop breathing, if you have a cold. This of course would not be a good
thing. But what usually happens is that when you lie down on your side and the unclosed nostril is
congested, within a few minutes that nostril will open.
The reason that the positions are reversed for men and women has to do with the solar and lunar
channels.

The reason we take these positions is to make it easier to enter the state of contemplation,
or presence of the natural light. If they make your sleep more difficult, then they are not
recommended. That is why I said that these positions are primarily for a person who tends to fall
asleep easily.

Let us consider for a moment the opposite situation, that of a person who has real problems falling
asleep. In such a case it would not be advisable to do this kind of visualization practice or to take this
position. It is likely that this type of person would merely become more nervous and perhaps not
sleep at all. An alternative for people of this type would be to observe their thoughts.
Whatever thoughts arise should be merely observed. Then, in this state of observing the thoughts
without becoming involved or conditioned by them, one sleeps. As long as one is not distracted, this
is something that anyone can do without creating obstacles to falling asleep. If you have difficulty
sleeping at night, there are other practices you may employ to assist you. For example, having this
difficulty often means that you need to coordinate the energy and function of the different elements
within your body. If your energy is disordered, it prevents you from sleeping. In this case, a deep
breathing practice done repeatedly can be beneficial.

Sleeping facing the north-south pole with your head should improve your dreams, because your brain is an EMF and the poles are magnetic. Animals do this naturally, look at the cows and horses all sleep facing this exact same direction.. without a compass!

Originally Posted by ChaybaChayba

Quote out of Dream Yoga and the Practise of Natural Light: (the visualization practise this guy is talking about is described earlier in the book, it's a method to get into a WILD)


Sleeping facing the north-south pole with your head should improve your dreams, because your brain is an EMF and the poles are magnetic. Animals do this naturally, look at the cows and horses all sleep facing this exact same direction.. without a compass!

Wow. Is that true? Freaky.

Yeah, check it out, I found the article: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/s...013016,00.html.

Tibetan Dream Yogins sleep on their right side if they are male and left side if they are female because it alters the flow of prana through wisdom channels around the body and is more conducive to dreaming - this comes from a similar source to ChaybaChayba's post.

I personally have the most WILD success on my back and right side.

Originally Posted by Ajna

Tibetan Dream Yogins sleep on their right side if they are male and left side if they are female because it alters the flow of prana through wisdom channels around the body and is more conducive to dreaming - this comes from a similar source to ChaybaChayba's post.

I personally have the most WILD success on my back and right side.

I find I sleep on my right side and often it leans over almost to stomach right side.
Whenever I move on my back during sleep or half-asleep I will usually get full SP.
I wish I could develop a way to tell myself to lay on my back during sleep.

Maybe a recording of my voice timed, or develop a trigger like cell phone in my sock or something.