help with an anchor...

I just started LDing and have a couple questons about WILDs.

what do you use to keep your mind active (anchor) while letting your body relax? I have tried counting breaths, pretending my body is a loading bar slowly working to 100%, and using my screensaver to produce varying levels of light.

Also, when anchoring, what is your goal or destination? To keep mind activity until lucid?

Last, once your body is asleep do you no longer need to anchor? Will your brain just stay active on its own? Or do you need to keep anchored until your in a dream?

Sorry if the questions have already been asked, I looked and cannot find them.

kinda bummed... 12 views and not a single response :/

cmon guys just a noob looking for some help, i wont bite

promise:)

well you've gotta remember that a lot of people are looking for the same advice, so they may be caught by the title but have nothing to share themselves...

not gonna lie that's why I checked it out ;)

Alright ya that makes sense. I figured I was just being overlooked because I was new and the thought didn't occur to me since I don't regularly go on message boards.

There are way more noobs than experienced members, just gotta wait and hopefully the ones who use anchors will get around to commenting. If you're referring to anchors as in the Billybob tutorial, that's also relatively new.

I did the same, looking for help.

Damnit, I was wondering this very thing. The other night I kept falling into sleep paralysis but then I didn't know what to do and I kept getting excited and nervous and breaking it. Happened 3 times in a row. I basically gave myself insomnia :?

Stephen LaBerge recommends The 61 Point relaxation Technique. :)

The 61 Point relaxation Technique - Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource

I'm also trying to find a suitable anchor. I read BillyBob's (I think) tutorial and he recommended pain. Problem with this is sleeping without cutting off my blood circulation... -_- and I have a high pain threshold (I think it's high...)

Last night I tried putting a cold eye mask under my leg but it just warmed up. I don't particularly want to sleep with it on my eyes....

I ended up getting a LD anyway because of my accidental WBTB :D

I´m not really new to lucid dreaming but I´ve had a break so I´m pretty rusty. But I tried WILD:ing a few times and I think this guide is very helpfull WILD - The Guide To End All Guides - Dreamviews Lucid Dreaming Community & Resource.
The thing that worked for me was counting while breathing (as explained in the guide). I didn´t WILD so much because I usually really need to sleep.

I like to use something involving movement. I try to recreate the sensation of my body moving. For example, I will lie on my back, and imagine my head sinking into the pillow. Then, I will imagine my feet pushing or sinking into the bed. I will alternate until I feel relaxed and spacey. Sometimes this will be enough to cause me to hallucinate sinking into the bed, spinning, or falling.

Another thing I frequently do is reverse blinking. I will close my eyes and count each breath on the exhale. Each time I count, I will blink my eyes open for a fraction of a second. It helps disorient me while preventing me from becoming distracted by my own thoughts.

Try just simply counting using mississippi seconds.