Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
Yes, this! The secret I found to going back to sleep in the middle of the night after performing some LD nighttime activities is not to "try to sleep," but simply to drift off with no expectations whatsoever.

With WILD though one must maintain a *little teeny tiny* pearl of awareness in there somewhere. The trick is getting it to be there so small that it doesn't stop your drifting off, but that it keeps you aware enough to enter the dream lucid.
Yeah that's an awesome way of putting it. It's a paradox. Like you need to have intent to have a lucid dream, but you can't "try." You have to "show up" and do an early morning WILD attempt or WBTB, but you can't be caught trying to hard or it doesn't happen. I keep hearing you need to let it happen to you, but you have to put in the time to give yourself the opportunity.

It's like meditation, you don't try to meditate. You just be. But there is still the effort in the showing up and resisting of urges, temptations, distractions. That's not easy. Trying not to try. A paradox! I just keep remembering to let go, and be ok with no results. And that this moment is a moment I'm sharing with my higher self no matter what. It's always there for me. The practice is good even if you do no have have an OBE or LD.