Thread: Sink Under Bed Technique (SUB)

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.

Interresting. I should give this a try for sure.

Oh my, the factor of "Sinking" into/under your bed sounds like it will work phenominally, based upon my own experiances of feeling like im sinking into my bed as a general indication of a relaxed/near sleep state.

I'm going to try this one tonight, what is your personal success rate for
1. dream clarity/vivid/etc/etc
2. Induction of a lucid dream

Great!. Idea

I thought of this after having almost no success with the other WILD techniques.

So far, I have had maderate success every time I tried it. The first time, I was in a playground from my childhood. I definately was aware of what was around me, and I saw a tire swing moving back and forth, but the overall clarity just wasnt there. I stayed in that spot for a while, and whenever I lost lucidity, It would go totally clear.

The second time, I went through the trapdoor into the paradise with a field full of tall grass, yellow flowers, and trees. http://static.panoramio.com/photos/o...l/10119696.jpg I lay in the grass for a while with my girlfriend. It wasnt completely vivid, but was still amazing.

Last night I did it again, and went to my uncles back yard. At first it was hazy, but then when I examined my surroundings like where each tree was, and that there was a table with three chairs around it and a patio with a crack down the middle, it became a LOT more clear. I unintentionally looked at my watch, (I dont actually have a watch) and it said 4:17. I thought if I were in school I would just be getting home now. I lost lucidity.

Basically this method has definatally gotten me into the dreamworld the three times I have tried it, but my problems now are clarity, and maintaining lucidity which I cant seem to have together. Otherwise it works.

edit: I removed your image tags, the pic was just way too big -nina

this is something i did a few years ago when i started with LD.
nevertheless i changed the method after sometime of trying because my mind told me if i wanted to fly i had to go trough the top although SUB seemed a lot easier for me. after a while i forgot it...now it´s here again

your method has another advantage:
thinking of an other world under your bed influences your subconsciousness, so WILDing becomes easier after some time of practise IMO.

thanks for your input...i´m gonna try this (again) in some minutes.

I'll definitely give this a shot since (like a previous member posted in here) I get a falling sensation when I shift into SP. So I could use this to my advantage to imagine than I am falling through my bed to a "gateway".

This looks interesting, I'll try it out.

I know it may be a stupid question but..as with WILD is it better to do the "SUB" technique after 5-6 hours of sleep?

Yes, its definately better to try it after 5-6 hours. WILD techniques simply do not work when you immediately fall asleep because you dont start dreaming until 5-6 hours into sleeping. Please dont waste your time like so many have trying and failing to WILD at bedtime.

If you are just starting out, I would actually not reccomomend the SUB technique. Try some more proven methods first. Im still developing and refining this technique, and so far it has only worked for me.

This sounds really cool and I have a very active imagination, so it shouldn't be too much trouble for me I tired WILDing the past two days and it failed, so this sounds a lot easier, can't wait to try it!

This sounds very promising! I can't wait to try this! I will post my results if I can remember

I wanted to say that I didn't know about this technique when I had this strange but simple experience

I was trying to WILD. But my mind was so fluffy I didn't even remember that I was trying to WILD. All of a sudden I had this very strange premonition of what was about to happen to me! And I tell myself "I'm about to sink under my bed". I wasn't excited or scared, it was just a matter of fact! I'm about to sink.....

I take a deep breath as if I'm about to submerge in water. And when I exhale, that's when the shift into the dreaming took place! Just right there in that breath! And it sorta felt like...I fell underneath my bed into a pool of water. It felt like water because everything felt thicker, slower, and sound was muted.

I sink under my bed, through my bed, and shifted through this watery consistency for only a brief moment before landing softly on my new dream bed! Where I was aware that this was a false awakening. I think it's cool how similar my experience was to your tutorial even though I hadn't read it before! Did you experience something similar to come up with this idea?

Have other people 'sunk' beneath their beds into a dream before this tutorial?

I really want to repeat this experience!! But I'm worried. I have no idea what type of consciousness I was in when I did this. I mean, I knew I was about to shift into the dream, but I had no expectations of anything. Usually when I'm trying to WILD, or even close to entering a dream, I'm excited! I find being excited ruins it though!

I like this technique of yours though. Since its technically a VILD, I don't have to be so anxious about dream entry and I can just get lost in my imagination instead!

That sounds like it would work just from reading this. Just reading about it filled me with a sense of relaxation. I cannot WAIT to get home and try this tonight! I get the feeling that it's going to work extremely well ^^ Even if it doesn't work, just the concept, I feel, makes you a genius, sir/madame

I didnt actually know that WILD only works when WBTB'ing.. Ok i goto sleep at 21:00 (GMT +1 (Copenhagen) ), shouldnt i have a REM at 02:00? I setted my alarm to 02:00..

Anyway, this sounds easy, but complicated enough to work!

I will try either this or Yoshi's way this night.

heeey so I tried something like this and got to the point where I could feel pressure on my body as I was sinking into my bed but could continue with it, I felt the pressure rise up from my feet all the way to my waist and then taht was it. How do you keep that pressure going?

I don't quite try all the steps, but many times when attempting WILD I will imagine my mattress caving in and me falling into another world.

It felt exactly like this without trying when I had my first LD's (Basically I "Sunk" into my dream and rose back out of it) but the ones I had last night it did not happen.

i going to to try this before sleep AND with a deild tonight. thanks

I'm going to try this! Thanks!

I sleep on my side, and I just had the feeling of sinking multiple times, but everytime I felt it getting stronger, I kept ditching it.

I guess I'm just too nervous and scared...

Does anyone think this would work better on an actual hammock? Just an idea.

Edit: Ouch. I failed I tried the blinking thing for 40 minutes. And I still wasn't about to fall asleep. Then I felt the heaviness. think I might have drifted off. But then I drifted out. Then I tried to sink under my bed.
It was perfect, Just like you described. Except for I hadn't drifted off. I tried it again and failed. Last night was a failure...

i think that this might have actually gotten me close to lucidity one time before. i'm going to try this one out as it's something that i feel pretty often before i sleep anyway.

this sounds like a brilliant idea, i'll try it tonight and let you know the result