Thread: Why You Fail at WILDs

Originally Posted by ClearView

This is great! When I joined I was drawn to WILD's as well. I have been attempting WILD's every night, but I haven't had any great success. My usual failure is when I start counting, and I would find myself lost in my mind therefore losing my count and starting over. Is there any way that you can make yourself stay focused on just counting?

Thanks for sharing this.
-CV

When I messed around with counting and other mental activities, I found the most success when I didn't focus on counting 'right' per se. It's perfectly alright to skip or repeat numbers, in fact I've had quite a few WILDs where I was able to keep awareness by repeating the same thing in my head over and over again. The important thing, that I really want to reiterate, is you make the counting a secondary mental process. Let it run by itself, keeping tabs on it, but otherwise not playing a heavily active role in its progression. That should help make it easier to actually fall asleep.

recently i tried to wild for my first time and counted as my anchor around 100 or so i started to forget about it i didnt count or repeat any numbers but some 10 seconds later i would remember and count though i would keep losing my focus. but i managed to get SP. so is this wat you mean by keeping tabs on it or am i doing it wrong