Thread: Control thoughts, or let them drift?

The only way for me is to control the thoughts. I have to do my best not to think any words at all. Although I can use visualization. If I just can not keep my thoughts silent, it helps if I keep my mind focused on visualizing. My favorite visualization is to draw numbers .Either picture myself drawing with a black marker on sheets of white paper, or notebook. Or to visualize drawing numbers on a chalk board. Not using words to count as I draw. Just picturing the drawn numbers if you know what I mean. This usually pulls me into the scene fairly quickly. I actually discovered this method as a kid as a means to beat insomnia. I was pretty surprised when I started finding myself actually in the scene I was visualizing.

But my favorite WILD method( maybe after a few moments of focusing on relaxing muscles) is to just keep a completely silent mind and just listen. If you can keep silent long enough, words and sentences. And possibly any manner of other random bizarre sounds will begin to manifest all on there own. I always find this very fascinating. And if you are able to continue listening, the sounds will then form into images, and you may then find yourself suddenly in the middle of a dream Lucid. Sometimes though, I will skip right past the audio and find myself right in the dream. Also, sometimes odd physical sensations may be experienced during the process. Like floating, spinning, or sinking, for just a few examples. I've never experienced any full on SP type symptoms like many people report. Just a bit of the floating sinking spinning stuff, maybe a little numbness once in a while.

My biggest problem with WILDing isn't getting there. I have difficulty maintaining it for a decent length of time once I get there. I come out them too easy. The experience is still fascinating and fun anyway though.