Hand Flex WBTB for those who have trouble sleeping

[Sivason]

I often hear from people that they can not get back to sleep after WBTB either trying WILD or MILD They wake up and wait say ten minutes and then can not fall back to sleep. Their WILD turns into just laying awake. Here is a simple method to gain the benefit of WBTB with out risking this problem. How you trigger yourself to wake does not matter. A quiet alarm or when you have got up to pee are both reasonable methods. Try not to wake yourself any more than needed, just enough to turn off the alarm or use the bath room. Lay in bed having barely woke yourself. Make a fist and relax it, repeat this about 12 times or more up to perhaps 30 times. While doing this relax the rest of your body just as if you were trying to sleep. Do not make the fist very tight; you are just flexing the hand not squeezing. Now try your WILD or MILD. Short and simple, but often enough of a WBTB to work. You can almost drift off while doing this, but it will keep ou just aware enough for just long enough to get the benifit of WBTB.

[11Greg]

Going to give this a try, seems to be that I can lie awake for upto an hour and fail to sleep. I am pretty deep, in between asleep and awake, to the point where I see miniature dreams and quite vivid HI. It's just that final push of falling into a dream by falling asleep fully is what escapes me.

[martakartus]

Yeah, I'll try this too. My WBTBs are meant to be 10-15 min long and at times I can stay awake for almost two hours... Thanks!