Thread: Feel myself sleeping while LDing....

Try to stabilize a dream and ignore the sensations of your real body. If your brain is processing "I feel as though I am laying in a bed in my bedroom" I think you're going to have trouble simultaneously experiencing "I feel as though I am flying through the air/doing battle with dragons/having dream sex/driving a sports car/whatever". Whenever I pay attention to my real body in dreams, the quality abruptly ends and I typically wake up

Just ignore it, and overrun whatever you just experienced with dream sensations. If you can hear your fan, imagine you hear a DC talking to you in the dream and focus on that (of course, sound is different). If you feel your pillow on your head, imagine it's because you're wearing a helmet or hat of some sort is my advice.

A risky suggestion might be to lay down in a "dream bed" and apply the feeling of your eyes close and bed to your dream. (Or apply it to similar feeling-but different, like Shift said, might be better).
But maybe you would go into a false awakening with better awareness of the dream....?
Not sure though

I think this is pretty common. I know I get it all the time. To get past it, I try to focus more on my dream body interacting with the dream environment. I will touch things around me, run my hands across the ground, or jump up and down to get a feeling for movement. If you are worried you might move your real body, then just visualize doing it. Once you are dreaming, any willful visualization can easily take over as a full dream. Shifting your attention to your dream body should make you forget about your real body.

I'm really grateful from bumping into this thread since not so long ago I had a DEILD but I thought I was maybe still just visualising and not LDing so I tried seeing if I was awake and it felt like I was so I woke up... I'll know not to do that again