Thread: How to ignore random thoughts while WILDing?

I decided to try and WILD the other day.

So I layed (lied whatever) in bed, and I would breath in and out, on breathing in I would say "one..." and on breathing out I would say "I'm dreaming..." and I would do that and keep going. M body began to feel heavy, my mind would go to random thoughts, but I would try to puch them out and keep counting.

Unfortuantly, the thoughts got the best of me and I lost consciencness.

Any tips on avoiding these random thoghts/ignoring them?

just keep practicing it, eventualy you'll beable to hold them off for awhile.

well, i dunno if this helps at all, but yeah, i keep saying "My mind is awake but my body is asleep" continuosly, and wont let anything interrupt my thoughts , i focus everything on that phrase.

its funny how you kinda, forget to say it , or get the whole phrase mixed up when you get closer to falling asleep, but i just put all i can to just, repeating that phrase. i dunno, just, really really putting your mind to it does the trick for me.

I never finished the whole process though, prolly cos i dont sleep before wilding, and day before yesterday when i tried wilding i was just laying in sp for 2 hours and called it quits.

I find that if you listen to/feel your pulse while repeating your phrase almost hypnotically, it's easy to focus.

i tried focusing on my breathing but i actually had a minor panic attack, i dont know why , haha

Mantras don't seem to work for me, but hey everyone's different. I have an excellent exercise to do regularly for this sort of thing. While fully conscious, go into a noisy environment and just blank out. Stare at something and try not to think. This task is much harder than it sounds. Do it with your eyes opened, then closed. If you hear a sound, fight off the vocalized mental words of question that will soon follow.

For example you hear a ruckus. Instantly, your mind begins to race with questions..."what was that? was it a car? I wonder what kind of car?" Mostly the seemingly uncontrollable ADD string of thoughts only happens during meditation or trance/hypnagogia. But that's how it happens. Before you know it, you keep adding on thoughts about the previous thought, that you eventually forgot what caused you to start thinking so much, and then you click out, or experience almost a physical "whoosh" where you quite literally snap back into the present moment of reality.

So practice meditating in a noisy environment. Eventually, mental questions like, "I wonder who just started the lawn mower" will become, "I wonder who just st-??????"

to, "I wonder who ??????"

"I wond-?????"

"I ?????"

"???????????"

You see it takes building up the stamina like with everything else. It's a process, and it depends on how much you are willing to work on it. Just remember that your objective is to not let thoughts build up, or even occur at all. The more blank your mind is, the easier of a time you will have with WILD.


On a side note, Snooze, what part of Finland are you from? A good friend of mine just moved to Helsinki

Yeah I have the same problem too. I try to focus on saying the mantra over and over but eventually I just lose it. I feel also that if I really put everything I have into saying it over and over I just end up staying awake the whole time I'm trying to do it

Allright first off I allready made a topic about this exact same subject:
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=38844

Second: To be able to focus hypnotically on your lucid intent would be easier if you were exhausted and sleep deprived. this weekend I went to a Ska festival and danced myself into exhaustion. I went home late, had to walk home for 20 minutes and watched some TV in bed afterwards. It was near 5 o' clock and I found myself hypnotically focussing on a television program by the sleepdeprivation. I was sort of in a Stupor like state.

Don't try to ignore random thoughts as this will only induce more random thoughts. Let the thoughts occur and you will probably notice a point where they drop off and you are not having many of them it is at this point in which you start inducing your own thoughts.