As my fellows state above "Fall Asleep."
It is considered hard, because it is a new type of awareness, and requires some experimenting and adapting. Yes, you want to stay aware, but you also want to fall asleep. Are you familiar with the concept of using an anchor?
Using an anchor to stay aware while your body falls asleep: If your mind is occupied with real life issues like homework, you may not be able to sleep. If you stop thinking you may loose awareness. Many people attempt to WILD simply by learning a relaxed form of attention that fools their body into believing the mind is asleep and all is normal. In fact, the goal is to fall asleep. You want to hold on to the very edge of awareness, and kind of sneak your mind along as your body actually sleeps.
Most people use some variation of perhaps a half dozen general ideas in order to 'anchor.' An example is to count in a very sedate relaxed manner to some low number, then start over, if you space off do not think about that, just resume counting. Never try to remember your place. the idea is just to have a reference to let you know you have a touch of awareness.
After you start feeling as if your body is probably mostly asleep, then you try to dream. You may just passively watch as mental images arise, or some other thing like picturing a scene and pretending it is forming.
That is the general idea anyways, with a hundred variations. So just remember the main point "You must fall asleep"
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