Thread: Help! Trying to LD with construction going on!

I use cheap foam earplugs. Works great.

My neighbour is building an extension of his kitchen, and he's making so much noise. But I got sleeping down pat a couple of years ago. Now, my method could be deemed controversial (it involves holding your breath) but it even let me sleep on a plane last year - something that was impossible before.

I close my eyes, lay on my side, and hold my breath for a 10 to 20 count, and then just breathe out and let however I am breathing dictate my breathing pattern. Then I visualise my hands in front of my and rubbing them together until my real hands tingle. And that's it. If I don't drop off to sleep immediately, I listen for the hypnogogic(sp?) noises, which normally come to me as voices. And a few seconds after the voices, I am LDing.

Had an awesome LD whilst the neighbour was drilling, that I was excavating Mayan ruins with a jackhammer. So much fun to ride it like a pogo stick!