Hitting a Roadblock? - Help needed
I am not quite sure if this is the right thread...but here goes.
Hey everyone. I am new here and i wanted to ask for some help. I have been trying to lucid dream using the WILD technique mainly. It has been unsuccessful...mainly when i try to do it when going to sleep for the night. But today as i was cleaning my house, i went to take a nap. I laid in bed and started to calm myself and all that. Now i have a few problems.
My first is that when i am trying to get my body to go to sleep, i can not stop my eyes from twitching all over the place unless i blank my mind or start daydreaming. But if i do that then i start ebbing into sleep without staying conscience. My second problem is that when i do start falling asleep, i spasm a little bit and get knocked back into being fully awake. My third problem is that when i do start to fall asleep, it seems to me that i keep a small but of lucidity...but i do not realise this at the time!..i do not realise it until said muscle spasm wakes me up and i notice that i was slowly going into dream mode, i assume with a small bit of lucidity going with it...
Now i will tell you of the closest i have been to a OBE/lucid dream...or basicly the closest i have gotten to the WILD technique working for me. I went to take a nap today, and started to calm down and such. I was laying there and started to fall asleep with that little bit of lucidity i was talking about. This happened a few times but every time a muscle spasm woke me up, and thus the cycle started again. After a few times i had my first "breakthrough?". I was ebbing away and (even though i did not notice it at the time) i was in a car, on the highway. I was driving and i could feel the wind on my face and in my hair. I could also hear a mild reverberation/wind noise in my ears. I could see the road stretching out in front me as well. I had one of those spasms and woke up, thus realising i had actualy heard and felt those things. i could not control anything and did not even realise it was happening at the time.
After i snapped back into reality i quickly went back to work trying to go back into that state. A few more wakings from my muscle spasms later and i got one that went fairly deep. I do not remember anything lucid happening with this one but somehow it seemed...deeper. More bold i suppose. I also get the feeling that is was important but i don't know why. It feels as if i am trying to grab water with my fists; the answer keeps slipping out of my fingers, but i know it is there. Anyway i had no idea that it was happening until i spasmed and woke up, just like all of them before.
If anyone can help me or tell me if i am doing something wrong, please do so. I would be much appreciated. Thank you
-MeatBag