Thread: Let's talk non-attentive focus & SP

I too gave up for a long while. Just a few days ago I took up WILDing again as I have started reading more about it recently. I gave up because of similar reasons. I decided to try hard at it again. I never truly stopped trying I just tried other WILD techniques and eventually switched to meditation with a WILD attempt afterwards which discouraged me further. It seemed as though I had gotten lost in all the cross-fertilization of techniques. I am now attempting a 'reboot' and going back to the beginning, to when I was still able to fall partially into sleep paralysis except now it is taking me much less time (10 minutes as opposed to 2-4 hours). Carefully picking and choosing which parts of others techniques' I think might fit with 'my technique' will be the next task.

Anyway to further reply to your thread, It seems as though you are still very much "in tune" with lucid dreaming. It might sound funny coming from someone who is relatively new to lucid dreaming, but I too have had the chance to experience Full SP while waking up, three even led to transition, (one of which became a successful lucid dream). Sometimes when waking up in sleep paralysis/transition I would be scared, but as I got to understand the symptoms described the fact that it was only sleep paralysis I would laugh it off and say in my head "Oh! It's ONLY sleep paralysis." And do my best to go further into the final stage of sleep paralysis by giving into it. If my attempt failed, well, I knew I'd be entirely ready to try again before I wake up too much. I haven't had a chance such as this though as of recent.

As for the one and only successful attempt... I just gave into transition as if I didn't care what would or would not happen. it lasted for what seemed to be seconds and I was in an extremely vivid and real to life lucid dream. Take note that this was a WBTB and that I'm speaking about transition as I got used to partial sleep paralysis after 3-4 weeks and was able to enter full sleep paralysis occasionally after that time). To me Sleep paralysis is a comfortable process, though, I used to think "how on earth am I going to get used to this?". It is the transition that was and may still be the biggest hurdle for me but don't we make our own hurdles? I certainly did. I led myself to believe that it was impossible to enter even partial sleep paralysis. Because I believed I made it so.

I hope I've at least answered one of your questions. I will do a review of what I've written and edit it again if I find that I left out something.