Swallowing: Do swallow. Do it naturally and before it becomes a thought. You do not have to be rigidly still. You do not need to act as if you are frozen.
The biggest thing that needs to be made clear is this: You are trying to fall asleep!
It is a complex balencing act. You MUST be able to fall asleep. However, you must learn the new and strange skill of maintaining some level of awareness while sleeping.
Two methods exist as far as how this can happen. In one you just fall asleep and need to be on the verge of a dream. You just pay attention and hope that you enter a dream while partialy aware. Second, learn to use meditation type mental tricks and actually learn to stay aware while asleep.
In the first you either make it or you do not, and little special skill is needed. The second style is a truely advanced skill. in those kinds of WILD you must learn how to fall asleep and still be aware. in that style you can hang around asleep, but aware, as long as you are able, even an hour or more and wait for a dream to happen.
This is why people do WILD after many hours of sleep. The stages of sleep make a difference on wether you dream or not. You are much more likely to dream after hours of sleep. the first method will almost never work at bedtime; you fall asleep and in the few minutes of partial awareness nothing happens. the second method may require you to stay aware for over an hour to get into a dream. So, if you want to WILD, you should wake up after say 6 hours of sleep and try it then.
The second type will probably have HH because you are asleep and observing at the same time.
Both have one clear thing in common, you must fall asleep. If you are really uncomfortable (like not swallowing) sleep will not happen. If you are just laying still and thinking about homework, daily stress, what you should do tomorrow, then you will likely not fall asleep. that is why people do things like repeat the same words over and over, or count to 10 over and over. You need something to keep you aware, but it should not be something that keeps you awake.
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