Thread: why's this not working anymore?

Haha you read my mind, in fact that is exactly what I do. I do prepare myself with the help of a guided meditation from Robert Monroe though.

But then when it is over (after about 40 minutes) I just sit in silence. After that preparation I have both set my intent, relaxed my body and mind and entered a meditative state. So from there I actually don't really think about time, or anything at all for that matter, I just sit and sleep consciously until I find myself in a dream.

And one thing to note, even though I remember entering it consciously, it's not often that I maintain the awareness all the way through, often I just experience an incredible aware and vivid non-lucid dream and then suddenly realize "Oh right it's a dream". So in a sense I do a very advanced form MILD, or WILD in order to DILD.
I have gone away from using a specific way to WILD or a specific way to DILD, I just consciously sleep in order to do what ever method that fits the situation.
Which makes it a strategy game which is fun, for example if I wake up I DEILD and if I can't DEILD I WBTB.

I don't want to scare you with times, because it barely feel like time passes at all, but based on the days I timed my attempts I would say that I meditate for more than an hour, perhaps all the way until the first REM which is 90+ minutes. It sounds extreme but it isn't, because conscious sleep isn't more extreme than unconscious sleep.

This is why I now stress the importance of having fun, because it's more enjoyable and time pass by quicker when you have fun.

It's not a success every night, but more often than before. But sometimes I am just too tired so I fall asleep unaware as I do my preparation.

Although I think I have found a way to solve that problem and that is to take a 30 minute nap and then wake up and start the preparation.