Thread: Can't find the right balance

Hi,

you don't mention if you do any RCs when in that state. If you have already tried what I suggest below, then just disregard.

when you say you can't fall asleep, how do you know you are not asleep? Have you tried any motionless RCs? Like trying to float up, move your arm, stand up, roll out of your bed? All just by power of your mind.

More than half the time when I WILD, I have some sensation that lets me know I am transitioning or already dreaming.

Visual - still images like photographs, cartoon drawings, moving pictures even videos...
Tactile - sensation of movement - either falling or floating up, or flying head first at breakneck speed...
Auditory - hearing sounds like a very strong wind, thunder, people talking, loud machinery...

When I stopped having these, I was a bit lost, not knowing how to enter a lucid dream without these markers. Then I realized that when I "see" my room, my eyes are closed. Or when I see anything else, also, my eyes closed, I must be dreaming.

I started doing my motionless RCs earlier and earlier, untill I realized I don't even have to do that. I can just stand up and be in a dream fairly soon after I start WILDing, before any indication of being asleep.

I read somewhere, that when they wake up people from light sleep, they swear they were still awake. This is non-lucid dreamers. So I guess it's really easy to think we are still awake when in fact we are already asleep.

tl;dr
Try motionless RCs when you think your body is asleep, or just try to stand up/roll out of your body with power of your mind.

Originally Posted by gab

I read somewhere, that when they wake up people from light sleep, they swear they were still awake. This is non-lucid dreamers. So I guess it's really easy to think we are still awake when in fact we are already asleep.

This happens all the time with me and my wife waking each other up to stop the other party snoring: "I wasn't snoring! I was awake!" Only I think with, as you note, the sensitivity of a dreamer can you really notice both: I've started to be able to notice when I'm snoring while asleep. Either that or it's so loud that the noise just wakes me up .