Hi for the longest time I think the biggest problem with my lack of WILD success and general inability to transition correctly has to be due to visualization.

I just can't get it down!

When I try simple visualization techniques like imagining a room or hallway I get far too caught up in the details. The rest of the image soon falls apart as a result, I find it difficult to draw all the sensations I've made into one amalgamated final image.

So I decided forget it I won't do a VILD technique, it doesn't work for me and to each his own I guess. However my Visualization problem is deeper it seems. I've been attempting simple visualizations such as a ball or simple colors (for sivason's Dream Yoga class) but the problems pervade even the minimalistic areas of visualization.

Firstly I find it very difficult to focus solely on one visualized image, it seems to fluctuate every couple of seconds, then I snap out because I notice I haven't been concentrating. This compounds the problem as a I suddenly rush to build the image again which makes me alert. I was wondering can everyone else easily solidify an image in view and keep it there?

My hypnagogic imagery doesn't seem to do much aswell. It could probably be just to my bad sleep hygeine and the horrible insomnia I get from WBTB. Often though when I WBTB I can spend and hour in a completely relaxed state of mind, not reacting to any body sensations but fuck all happens! I'm not waiting or trying to focus on something to arrive but after an hour I just get inpatient. I've only seen hypnagogic before and that was a DEILD (but the awareness as it formed was very poor). Lastly one was where I turned over and woke up in SP which immediately had tons of geometric patterns, it's literally the first time I saw those buggers.

Secondly and probably the worst issue my eyes keep darting around. I can't keep my bloody eyes still. One sort of disappears into a another world and I have to bring my eyes back into focus. I don't know if this has anything to do with my eyesight (which is poor). One of my eyes is weaker then the other so I often notice in waking life that one darts off. It's so irritating because everytime this occurs I lose the visualization, it's a pain.

Lastly I've often wondered how people draw their visualizations over the hypnagogic imagery. I can do one of two things it seems. Either create the image instantaneously a "Flash Image" if you will. Or draw it over the black space like painting on a canvas. I often wonder which one people prefer to do. It's for this reason that I struggle with guides that say "visualize a white dot in the center of your forehead". I always try and paint it over the top of the black space, but should I be visualizing my forehead as though I was looking down on myself with a dot on it?