I somehow just now realized how daunting that text wall is. |
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So, yesterday, for the first time, I started trying the mantra part of DILD/MILD ("I am lucid dreaming." as I go to sleep, and "I look at my hands and realize I'm dreaming." as part of reality checks) and I noticed last night it was making me have some trouble going to sleep... For example, first, I couldn't get myself to fall asleep normally while saying it, (I tried breathing it to myself, mouthing to myself, and just thinking it to myself) so I decided I'd just say/think it to myself in the last moments before I fell asleep. However, then what happened was either I stressed about it and couldn't relax enough to fall asleep, or I remembered about it as I was falling into medium (whatever the second stage is called) sleep whether I wanted to or not and without even giving myself a chance to think about it, woke myself up to say the mantra. I woke up from deep/almost rem sleep at least three times last night and had each of these problems multiple times on each occasion. |
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I somehow just now realized how daunting that text wall is. |
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It seems like you are focusing on your mantra too much, I usually just say mine 5 times while counting it on my fingers, after that I got to bed as usual. If you think you need to be practicing your mantra more often, do it while you are awake, not just before you go to bed. If you insist on thinking about your mantra right before you go to bed, as soon as you start to mess it up ("I will lucid dream tonight" turns into "I will lucky dark Tuesday" or some thing similar) that is when you can stop thinking about it and fall asleep. Focusing to much on it will keep you awake, so its better just to do it until it gets difficult, forget about it, and let your subconscious do the rest. Best of luck |
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Like Ksero said, don't let your mantra preventing you from falling asleep. Relax after a certain amount of repetitions, and make sure the message sinks in. Then, just let yourself go and fall asleep. Even WILD require you to fall asleep, so there's no good to try to make yourself alert during the middle of the night |
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The others pretty much said it. The goal of doing MILD is to fall asleep with your mantra as your last thoughts. You shouldn't try to stay up just to keeo doing your mantras. Just do them for a bit, and if you start falling asleep, just go on and sleep. Soon enough you should start drifting off and perhaps get some hypnagogia in there, which is completely normal. |
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Ok, last night I fell asleep ok, but still accidentally woke myself up by becoming conscious too early. Has anyone even heard of that problem before? |
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I think that's a pretty common occurence. Is this what you mean: You start falling asleep, but somehow at the last instant or so, you kind of 'snap' awake? |
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Actually, what I was trying to say is that I can fall asleep fine, and I stay asleep til late deep sleep/REM, but then as I'm transitioning into REM, I realize I'm doing so, and I get too excited to control myself, and try to become conscious before I'm immersed enough in the dream, causing me to wake up, since that's the only way to become conscious at that moment. |
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Is it possible, that by REM you mean WILD? |
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Last edited by gab; 06-30-2013 at 06:41 PM.
No, I don't mean WILD. I probably should've pointed that out earlier. I mean that I fall asleep normally, w/o any techniques other than MILD, and then when REM (Also, I'm kinda using "REM" and "dream" interchangeably. Whoops.) starts, and the dream starts forming, I just instantly go for it due to a combination of excitement and fear of losing lucidity once I'm actually IN the dream. |
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Ok, now that makes sense. You mean when dream starts, not when REM starts. And you mean not just any dream, but lucid dream. And as soon as you realize you are dreaming, you get excited and that wakes you up. |
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Welp, at least I like a challenge =/ |
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To the contrary. Waking up due to the excitement is a very common occurance. I'm not gonna say problem, because it's not a problem. It's part of a learning process. I still wake up sometimes, because I start to laugh hysterically from happiness. And frankly, it's such an otherworldly and incredible feeling of happiness, that I don't care if that wakes me up. |
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Huh. I never thought of it that way. 0.o I didn't count them because it's like, I don't even get to actually experience being lucid for even a split second when I wake up literally upon I becoming lucid. But I guess you're right; waking up as I realize I'm dreaming kinda is a thing that I need to work on. (Now I'm suddenly wondering if maybe I wake up like that because I'm kind of afraid of seeing how the dream world might've distorted some things... hm...) |
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