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      How long should you remain still for WILD?

      So I've been trying practicing WILD before I go to sleep and i manage to stay still for a couple of minutes. How long should you stay still for example before trying to attempt like say a WILD anchor such as FILD?

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      Rather than focusing on staying still, focus on being relaxed and comfortable, both physically and mentally. If you do that, you won't have any reason to move.

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      I timed myself and I can manage to stay still for almost 15 minutes, could that help in my lucid dreaming?

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      Staying still isn't likely to do you much good if you don't cultivate the right mental state. Once you cultivate the right mental state, you induce the WILD by falling asleep. Obviously it is hard to fall asleep if you are actively tossing and turning, but that is the only sense in which staying still is helpful (and learning to fall asleep when you want to is a skill in itself, one that can be developed through practice).

      So what is the right mental state to cultivate to induce WILDs? It is whatever allows you to maintain a flicker of conscious awareness while your body is falling asleep. You can find plenty of ideas around DV, then experiment with them until you figure out what works best for you. Counting is a big part of my own practice, because it helps me observe the changes in my thought patterns as I drift closer to sleep (I lose count more and more easily, or find my counting interrupted by random, sometimes irrational thoughts and impressions).
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      Quote Originally Posted by kamenriderbaron View Post
      So I've been trying practicing WILD before I go to sleep and i manage to stay still for a couple of minutes. How long should you stay still for example before trying to attempt like say a WILD anchor such as FILD?
      I figured that timing one's self of how long to lay there is actually taking you away from the main goal itself.

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      The whole "recommendation" to stay still is just to make it clear that you're trying to fall asleep normally. While falling asleep normally you find a nice position and "stay still" and fall asleep, right? So this is exactly what you should do here. Fall asleep just like you normally do.

      "Staying still" is not a rule on it's own. You can move, itch, swallow - do whatever - as long as it doesn't interfere with falling asleep by causing you to over-think the action (of moving, itching, swallowing, etc.).

      The difference between "normal falling asleep" and "WILDing falling asleep" is purely mental. It's purely in your head - knowing that you're dreaming. The rest - any physical action or sensation - will only fail the WILD attempt if they would fail a normal attempt to sleep (e.g. things that I can't sleep with - mosquito buzzing, being too hot, neighbor's party music, etc.)
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