Last two nights I woke naturally at a decent time to do WBTB. After writing down the dream I just had, I did SSILD. Both times it then took a while to get to sleep afterwards. It's like I get stuck on replay and can't stop my mind wanting to keep coming back to sensation, which keeps waking me up when I get closer to sleeping. I would sometimes even fall asleep but then soon after just wake up for no apparent reason.

However this morning after waking from a dream, I did just the hearing and touch cycles of SSILD and then had a fairly short but nourishing lucid dream. I seem to find the sight part of SSILD a bit too stimulating. It even sometimes causes my eyes to ache as I find it difficult to be aware of sight without being semi focussed on something, so my eyes often move around and don't want to relax. I realized this a few days ago but wanted to keep trying to see if I could learn to relax the eyes more. But I think for now it's best to give that a rest and either try again at a later date to give it time to feel 'new', or realize that sound and touch are enough to make the technique work. It makes sense to me that it could work just as well without sight, as any kind of focussed awareness on any sense naturally heightens awareness of the other senses, or at least that's what happens in waking mediation!

I am undecided whether to try this simpler SSILD tonight or have a break from induction techniques. At the moment I sort of feel like I've forgotten how to fall asleep properly, so maybe I should give priority to getting that back!