Sink Under Bed Technique (SUB)

I wanted to say that I didn't know about this technique when I had this strange but simple experience

I was trying to WILD. But my mind was so fluffy I didn't even remember that I was trying to WILD. All of a sudden I had this very strange premonition of what was about to happen to me! And I tell myself "I'm about to sink under my bed". I wasn't excited or scared, it was just a matter of fact! I'm about to sink.....

I take a deep breath as if I'm about to submerge in water. And when I exhale, that's when the shift into the dreaming took place! Just right there in that breath! And it sorta felt like...I fell underneath my bed into a pool of water. It felt like water because everything felt thicker, slower, and sound was muted.

I sink under my bed, through my bed, and shifted through this watery consistency for only a brief moment before landing softly on my new dream bed! Where I was aware that this was a false awakening. I think it's cool how similar my experience was to your tutorial even though I hadn't read it before! Did you experience something similar to come up with this idea?

Have other people 'sunk' beneath their beds into a dream before this tutorial?

I really want to repeat this experience!! But I'm worried. I have no idea what type of consciousness I was in when I did this. I mean, I knew I was about to shift into the dream, but I had no expectations of anything. Usually when I'm trying to WILD, or even close to entering a dream, I'm excited! I find being excited ruins it though!

I like this technique of yours though. Since its technically a VILD, I don't have to be so anxious about dream entry and I can just get lost in my imagination instead!

That sounds like it would work just from reading this. Just reading about it filled me with a sense of relaxation. I cannot WAIT to get home and try this tonight! I get the feeling that it's going to work extremely well ^^ Even if it doesn't work, just the concept, I feel, makes you a genius, sir/madame

I began to try this last night, but I'd been too tired to stay conscious through to the second step. In the bit of time that I WAS conscious, however, it was AMAZING! This is the most successful-sounding method I've researched =D I'll try it again tonight, now that I'm more rested, and post results in the morn

Juroara, I have had similar experiences before developing this technique, but I never actually sunk under my bed before thinking about doing it. Like many people, when I was a child I thought there were monsters under my bed. Now I imagine nice things under my bed. I have randomly felt as if I was pushing my arm through my bed, and I have felt a sinking sensation while entering sleep paralysis, but I never had a full SUB like you are describing before developing the technique.

Pastry, WOW! It sounds like it worked for you! Even though the dream was short, this means that the technique is something that can be learned, and its not something that only I can do, or just happens randomly. I was worried that my method wouldnt work. Ill see if I can refine it to work for more people.

And yes, It will make you REALLY tired. Thats the point. You wont be staying up all night hoping for a lucid dream. You will go to sleep. The determining factor is whether or not you will stay lucid.

Keep me posted on any problems or successes. I only know what works and doesnt work for me.

I didnt actually know that WILD only works when WBTB'ing.. Ok i goto sleep at 21:00 (GMT +1 (Copenhagen) ), shouldnt i have a REM at 02:00? I setted my alarm to 02:00..

Anyway, this sounds easy, but complicated enough to work!

I will try either this or Yoshi's way this night.

heeey so I tried something like this and got to the point where I could feel pressure on my body as I was sinking into my bed but could continue with it, I felt the pressure rise up from my feet all the way to my waist and then taht was it. How do you keep that pressure going?

I don't quite try all the steps, but many times when attempting WILD I will imagine my mattress caving in and me falling into another world.

It felt exactly like this without trying when I had my first LD's (Basically I "Sunk" into my dream and rose back out of it) but the ones I had last night it did not happen.

i going to to try this before sleep AND with a deild tonight. thanks

I'm going to try this! Thanks!

I sleep on my side, and I just had the feeling of sinking multiple times, but everytime I felt it getting stronger, I kept ditching it.

I guess I'm just too nervous and scared...

Does anyone think this would work better on an actual hammock? Just an idea.

Edit: Ouch. I failed I tried the blinking thing for 40 minutes. And I still wasn't about to fall asleep. Then I felt the heaviness. think I might have drifted off. But then I drifted out. Then I tried to sink under my bed.
It was perfect, Just like you described. Except for I hadn't drifted off. I tried it again and failed. Last night was a failure...

i think that this might have actually gotten me close to lucidity one time before. i'm going to try this one out as it's something that i feel pretty often before i sleep anyway.

this sounds like a brilliant idea, i'll try it tonight and let you know the result :)