Thread: Trying to LD is Killing My Sleep

Originally Posted by JoannaB

If I were you, I would focus more on increasing awareness and memory during daytime, and less on dream recall in the middle of the night, since you do need to have enough sleep to LD and that is even more important than dream recall. If you increase awareness and memory while waking, that increases chance of LD. Also getting more sleep increases chance of LD. So dream recall is just part of it, and you may wish to now focus on the other parts. And yes, concentrating on dream recall when waking up for final awakening only sounds good to me in your case. For me this is different, but I can fall asleep relatively quickly nowadays.

This used to not be the case. I actually improved my ability to fall asleep faster by following the WILD tutorial every time I fell asleep - it did not cause a WILD but it did cause me to fall asleep most of the time faster than before.

Thank you JoannaB. This is what I was afraid of. I've actually been enjoying dream journaling this time around. But I'm must going to have to focus on getting enough sleep (for my health) and work on other LD techniques.