iv never liked sleep, id see it as a waste of time, id get bored while trying to sleep. i have a realy active mind, so when i lie there doing nothing my mind is constantly thinking of all sorts of things, absolutly everything, to prevent boredom. for this reason it takes me ages to get to sleep, roughly half and hour an hour it takes me (not that i would know exactly

ever since i started trying lucid dreaming (just started a dream journal a week ago) going to sleep has been more fun because of the prospect of a LD, but it still takes me ages to get to sleep.

when you guys are lying there in your bed, what are you thinking/what sort of frame of mind are you in:

1)staring at inside of eyelids
2)thinking about anything (fantasies, past experiences etc)
3)repeating a phrase in your head (eg, tonight i will have a lucid dream)
4)counting down form eg 100
5) thinking about one particular fantasy/memory to induce a lucid dream about it
6)anything else

i am trying to find a frame of mind that helps me to get to sleep faster + have a lucid dream.

remember i have not experienced a full lucid dream yet.


thanks for any opinion / advice chaps