I've always been surprised how much attention WILDS get on this forum. Yes, I agree it's the Holy Grail of techniques, for all the obvious reasons. However, my personal experience with WILDS suggests it has more to do w/ brain chemistry than any technique to make your body fall asleep while the mind is awake, etc ...

What do I mean by that?

I have had a number of WILDS naturally. To be honest, I have not spent countless hours reading tutorials, nor have I spend hours in bed waiting for SP to kick in. With that said though, I have only had very modest luck. Now this is coming from someone (me) who is a reasonably experienced meditator. I think my mind control is pretty good.

Now flip the approach completely. If I take galantamine and choline w/ WBTB I am virtually gauranteed a WILD.

Someone is welcome to jump in and correct me on this. But even later in the sleep cycle when we are mostly in REM, isn't it correct to say that when we fall back asleep we hit non-REM, for at least a short while, and then transition to REM. It's the non-REM phase in which holding onto awareness becomes difficult or even impossible.

By using galantamine, you bias the brains tendencies and transition seemlessly from a wakeful state to REM. That's actually pretty easy, or at least it is for me.

So with all these people struggling to have WILDS and the small handful of people who claim it's easy, doesn't this suggest that WILDS have more to do with brain chemistry than technique? Has anyone ever researched that question or otherwise proven it in more technically accurate terms?