i think i forgot how to sleep...problem

**jguitar** · 09-01-2010 08:44 AM

soi tried wild-ing thus morning and it almost worked. i laid there and cleared my mind and i was perfectly still. i got to sp and gave up.

tonight, when i sleep, i just do the wild thing. i try to think of something, but i dont want to wild. i have had sleepless nights before, but none this bad. i think i forgot how to sleep. so how do i sleep? help!

**Elucive** · 09-01-2010 01:23 PM

Ha. I know exactlyyyy what you're talking about. Sometimes I have lucid dreaming ad WILD on my head so much that I can't sleep. Even when I want to sleep normally it's like I'm trying to WILD. Lately it's been taking me an hour, or an hour and a half to fall asleep. There's a thread here called "Why you fail at WILDs". Check it out...

Anyways, I would suggest dropping it for a while, so you can get back to your regular sleeping habits.

**jguitar** · 09-01-2010 02:01 PM

yeah, and i havent had a good one yet

thanks!

**Puffin** · 09-01-2010 02:33 PM

Elucive might be right, that happens to me too sometimes.

Think about totally random things and don't do any WILD-esque stuff. Usually if I go over a movie in my head, or think of music playing on loop over and over again, I fall asleep rather quickly.

**jmanjohn** · 09-01-2010 09:14 PM

I'm just mad that i think about my mind wandering. So when i'm almost at the sleep level, i think of how random my thoughts are and i drop the ability to go to sleep. So i just think of guns and music, or whatever i can think about. It gets really annoying though that it can take an hour to get to sleep. Last night though i used a melatonin and got to sleep in less than 30 minutes.

**jguitar** · 09-01-2010 11:45 PM

i wasnt able to fall asleep last night but i was able yo fall asleep ona speedboat at 1 pm today? thats the randomest place to sleep but it worked. i almost went into sp!!! hahaha

**Supernova** · 09-02-2010 12:49 AM

Keep in mind also, the more you think about WILDing during the process, the harder you will make it to fall asleep. Remember falling asleep is your first objective. Retaining awareness is secondary.