I haven't had any success WILDing yet but to me it seems like trying a new technique couldn't hurt in your case. I tried the technique you mentioned myself and reached only about 200, I still only achieved numbness as well. |
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The past few nights when I WBTB and WILD, I've been using the count-your-breaths method. I always seem to get to around 325-400 breaths, and then my mind starts to wander. I usually end up getting so bored (because I don't feel very much SP action going on, I actually don't reach SP at this point, I'm just numb-ish) that I roll over and fall asleep. Do you think I need to work on my focus, or change to a different technique? |
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I haven't had any success WILDing yet but to me it seems like trying a new technique couldn't hurt in your case. I tried the technique you mentioned myself and reached only about 200, I still only achieved numbness as well. |
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I would recommend sleeping and affirming that you will wake up and laying still with closed eyes. Or use an alarmclock (with autosnooze) to trigger your own awakening. |
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Well, what I did was I just focused on sound. When my mind started wandering, I started to focus on 2 sounds. (for example, the sound of a fan and the sound of water dripping in pipes) |
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I tried counting backwards from 1,000 once (kinda the same thing you were doing) and my mind wandered too. To be honest, counting your breaths in sets of 10 really helps. Your mind doesn't wander off because you keep resetting back from 10 to 1 (Just a theory). |
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Okay. I'll try that tonight! And I think once I get numb and relaxed enough (that my mind starts wandering too much) that I'll start to imagine a dream scene. |
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So I tried that tech last night. I got MUCH farther than I did with just plain counting (I used the vertical bars too). After about 30-40 minutes (or what seemed so) I was pretty numb and relaxed, but, I didn't know how to transition into the dream. I hadn't started SP yet; but I didn't know how to get it to come, because I was just laying there numb and relaxed for about 20 more minutes after that, waiting, still counting. |
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Once you achieve sleep paralysis, ease your way further into a deeper relaxation by imagining yourself sinking deeper into your bed every time you breathe (also try and feel this sensation of sinking deeper). |
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Last edited by DynoTAP; 09-12-2011 at 01:48 AM.
Well, I'm kind of talking about BEFORE sleep paralysis, like to get paralysis to come, or is where you're saying that I was in the early onset of SP? |
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