I thought of this technique because I remeber as a child thinking that there were monsters under my bed, but today I realize it was just dreaming, or partially dreaming.

This technique involves altering what you believe is actually happening around you. This is how it works:

1. Attain deep relaxation or sleep paralysis if possible. I find that the easiest way to do this is reverse blinking where you quickly open your eyes for a moment, focus on something, and then close them. Open your eyes about every five seconds while breathing normally. Do this until you are just too lazy to open them. Follow this up with deep breathing. As you breathe deeply imagine all stress and tansion flowing out of your body and focus on your legs, torso, arms, and then head getting very heavy.

2. Imagine something is actually under your bed. As you are deeply relaxed, imagine a scene under your bed that does not actually exist. When your eyes are closed you imagine the bedroom around you with surprising acuracy. You do not need to look to see your closet, you just know that it is there and you remember what it looks like. Imagine a simple object or scene that is taking place below your bed. I usually imagine a trap door beneath my bed that is open and underneath it is a paradise of tall green grass and trees. Do not forget details like what it sounds like, what it smells like, the temperature, is it windy? etc. The key step here is to believe that it exists.

3. Imagine yourself sinking into your bed and then under your bed. The hardest part of this tecnique is imagining that you are sinking under your bed. To do this you must feel your body getting very very heavy. Your body is getting so heavy that you are weighing down heavily on your matress. There is a big dent in your bed where you are. As you become heavier the bed cannot give any further and you float through the thin layer of matress left and you are under your bed.

4. Examine your environment. Look around you. The environment will be hazy and unclear at first, but stay with it. I sleep on my stomach, so I see my environment from a birds eye view, but if you sleep on your back you may see the bottom of your bed. Gently float down and stand in your environment. To make it clearer, slowly turn around in place and examine your environment as a panorama. Remember where thing are like you would with your eyes closed in your bedroom. You are now dreaming. Do a reality check. I suggest staying in one place until the environment becomes more solid. Continue to observe, and it will become more clear. Physically holding on to something will also solidify things.

This tecnique has advantages because you can obtain a WILD from any sleeping position. Because of this it has been the most effective method for me so far. It may be better to imagine something else in your room for example your closet being a gateway to Narnia, or your ceiling having a door into outerspace. Really any way to incorporate the dreamworld into the physical world will work. When I am abruptly woken up, I often experience partial dreaming where I am still trying to do some of the things in my dream in waking life for a second. This is the gateway between the dreamworld and the waking world. This method is going into the dreamworld through that gateway.

Good Luck.