Think i just found the key to WILDing
My main issue with dreaming and WILDing is falling asleep in the first place. I have spend hours awake at night trying to WILD or just get some regular sleep. I still haven't quite tested my method to be fool-proof but just last night it was initiatory to induce falling asleep.
Last week i slept for periods of a few hours each day and became so tired that i actually fell asleep on my computer chair. What was interesting to note was that i consciously fell asleep into dream-like images and was perfectly aware of the dream-like reality of what i was seeing.
What happened was that i started contemplating actually getting out of my chair and lying in bed to get some sleep. I pictured myself moving to my bed and falling asleep and considered doing so in the very near future. The thing is that immediately after imagining going to sleep i actually started dreaming. I kind of slipped into a non-lucid dream and had the feeling of browsing the internet as i was still in my computer chair but startled into lucidity as i noticed a car passing by from my appartment window just behind my actual computer. What made me aware that it was a dream was that i was somehow processing vision in a different fashion than normal waking vision. (Irrelevent to the method but my focus was able to see every input from my dream eyeballs with a visual intensity that made it possible to change my gaze/focus without actually moving the center of my vision, kind of hard to explain). The dream-like sensations that followed consists of "browsing dream internet" and seeing spatial hallucinations behind closed eye-lids that show suprising structure and realness in their inherent feel. Not exactly a dream but close enough for me.
Anyway. The key here is that I started dreaming just after imagining actually falling asleep. Just last night this was again an initiatory process for dreams to start. There seems to be an actual switch that is reached in the brain in this way to induce dreaming. It probably works best when already tired, so one might need to find a balance between sufficient wakefulness to retain lucidity and sufficient sleepiness to actually fall asleep. I just thought i'd share and was wondering if anyone made the same observations I did. Either way, I'm going to have to explore this further but my excitement here motivates me to prematurely share it anyway. :lol:
TLDR; My method in a nutshell consists of imagining oneself falling asleep in the most comfortable bed/method you can imagine in a visualizing thought-form to induce dreaming at will. In other words, no matter where you are sitting/lying with ur eyes closed. You imagine yourself falling asleep in another dimension to actually fall asleep in real life without effort to make WILDing easier by simply being able to let some awake part go and fall asleep instantly while still retaining important brain processes that make it possible to think rationally and induce lucidity immediately once the dream starts to form.
I am wondering if anyone else found this method to be helpful and if anyone else found a switch that makes one fall asleep without effort.
