Thread: Forgetting how to sleep

I'm right there with ya. WILD is a tricky balancing act, no doubt about it. I wake up quickly unfortunately, I think this is less desirable than falling asleep "too quickly," since the results is usually much more lost dream time. On the other hand, WBTB for me for MILD is just: recall, journal, bathroom, bed. Even with just that, adding a few MILD reps in there, and I'm awake for some time.

Keeping a regular sleep schedule and getting exercise during the day helps....I'm still trying to get my schedule ironed out.

On my (mostly failed) WILDs I too ended up very awake. On my one short success I was more focused on the sleeping part than the awareness part: for me, and perhaps for you, erring on the side of unconscious sleep rather than staying aware may be the thing that makes it work. Sometimes you'll miss and fall unconsciously asleep, but for me that's better than laying there awake, because you still have the DILD possibility as a backup.