Thread: Urge to yawn when trying to engage SP?

You should be attempting to WILD after a few hours of sleep, not before going to bed at night. WBTBs work best. Also getting up in the morning for a few hours, then laying back down to take a nap is good for WILDs as well.

As for things like scratching an itch: I find it worse to try to ignore the itch because then it gets worse and I keep thinking about it. A quick scratch I've found does not disrupt the SP process hardly at all. I swallow when I need to. Just don't think about it, the body will swallow if it has to. When you are in SP/dreaming it is very rare that you will swallow, and usually a sudden urge to swallow during SP/HI can be indicative of exiting the SP state. For example, if you are experiencing HI and become a bit excited and your heart rate increases, your body wakes up a little and the urge to swallow will be immediate. I use swallowing as a gage to measure my progress into SP, but I would suggest unexperienced WILDers not to think about it.

(also regarding your thread title, I have never had the urge to yawn during SP or WILDing)

I have tried to wild a few times. I lay on my back, with my shoulders and head on my pillow, which makes my head tilt back a little. Whenever I do that, I just randomly swollow real quick. I will just be laying there thinking of other things and of becoming lucid, and then I will just swollow. I will admit that I did swollow on purpose I few times...but I still got to the early stages of SP anyway..felt all tingly, heart raced, had trouble breathing, etc.(read my post here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=89401)

So if you swollow once in a while in a naturaly way...I don't think it sets you much if at all. As for itches, I get terrible ones, but I just think of something else and they go away as soon as I forget about them(hard to believe, but just think of something else and you will soon forget about the itch).