Meh, what is this?

The past few nights i have been attempting WBTB, but my alarm never goes off (first time i had it set wronge, second the song wasent playable, the 3rd my computer reset randomly for security updates) And so i thought i would attempt it anyway.


(Mind you this is a custom method that someone else taught me)

1. i was told to just kinda think of a story line, or a idea and let my mind take it to where it will go, but i found it EXTREMELY hard to stay on track, or even stay still when attempting to do this, but i can usually stay still for a wild. Its almost like my mind got too busy. What do i do about this, and is it normal.

2. after i gave up on the attempt i could easly get back to sleep, and i found myself waking up every 30 minutes or so, i was almost halucinating. When i closed my eyes i would see the dream, but i was totaly awake pretty much, and when ever i fell asleep again the dream would pick up, or be on the same idea with the same people. What was the deal with this?


thanks =D :banana:

Did you consider the possibility these were false awakenings, and you lost sense of time due to the disjoint nature of the experiences?

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Originally Posted by Volcon

The past few nights i have been attempting WBTB, but my alarm never goes off (first time i had it set wronge, second the song wasent playable, the 3rd my computer reset randomly for security updates) And so i thought i would attempt it anyway.


(Mind you this is a custom method that someone else taught me)

1. i was told to just kinda think of a story line, or a idea and let my mind take it to where it will go, but i found it EXTREMELY hard to stay on track, or even stay still when attempting to do this, but i can usually stay still for a wild. Its almost like my mind got too busy. What do i do about this, and is it normal.

2. after i gave up on the attempt i could easly get back to sleep, and i found myself waking up every 30 minutes or so, i was almost halucinating. When i closed my eyes i would see the dream, but i was totaly awake pretty much, and when ever i fell asleep again the dream would pick up, or be on the same idea with the same people. What was the deal with this?


thanks =D :banana:

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1. Yes it is normal for your mind to have a hard time staying on track. You might of been focusing to hard on 1 specific thing or not hard enough. Note if you do the WBTB method you may toss and turn a bit until you get into a comfortable position. It is normal what you were experiencing.

2. What you were experiencing was a very high level of HI most likely from performing a very shortened WBTB method repeatedly. Since your awareness of your waking surroundings was so low you were pretty much 1/4 awake and 3/4 asleep already making it so when you closed your eyes you could almost instantly fall back into a dream state.

Ok, thanks for the answeres guy. And about them being false awakenings, Yes im sure they werent, Becuase i was sleeping on my left side for most of the time, and every time i opened my eyes i was sure to check on my cat who sleep next to me every night, and he was in the exact same position. every time, and i doubt it would be like that in a FA