I have been trying to WILD for ages. Started using the LDOC technique (focus on back of head, feel mind falling backwards) which is getting me closer than ever.

Almost every time now I can fall asleep whilst maintaining conciousness, but it lasts for a maximum of about 1 second, once I felt like I was in a dream but it was so fast I'm not really sure, every other time I feel that I have drifted off but get pulled back immediately. It is as if I can't just let myself go and the act of falling asleep is too much and my mind soesn't like the loss of control and yanks me back out.

Is this a normal part of the learning process and one day it will just click?? or is there anything I'm not doing that I should be? Even just knowing that there is a few moments gap between falling asleep and something else happening would be helpful so I feel as if I know what to expect.

I have to say I have yet to have a lucid dream (over 6 months so far) so don't really yet know what to expect so it's all still uncharted territory. I'm slightly frightened of going lucid by a WILD but prepared for anything, maybe it's actually a bit too exciting still and that's why I always wake, or a combination of the two.

I feel so close and yet still so far from actually getting there.

Thanks in advance for any comments.