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61-point-technique in Stephen's book.
I have been using this technique in order to relax my body before falling into sleep. Sometimes I have managed to induce a mental state in which I seem to be floating numb in a blue heavy space (or something like this). Feeling positive and anxious to see whether I would slide directly into a dream (WILD?). This has never happened.
Luckily, I have been more fortunate with DILD's: I wonder if my success in achiving DILD's is somehow related to the using of this technique? What is your personal opinion about this technique? Do you think it really contributes to achieving LD's?
Hmm...the technique is designed to help you relax your body completely and allow you to more easily enter sleep or more easily enter SP (for WILD attempts). However, if your mind and intentions are on LDing and you are using this technique in preparation for a LD, I suppose it could help achieve a DILD more easily. I personally don't use this technique because it takes to long and is too much work for what it does (imo).
Sleep paralysis: Those of you who have experienced sleep paralysis: do you think that sleep paralysis could be 'produced' by this or another similar relaxation technique? Or is sleep paralysis something totally different?
I think that relaxation techniques definately can help lead to SP. They allow your body to relax completely in preparation for sleep.
Which other mental techniques do you use except 61-point to induce lucid dreams?
I personally like to use the flex-freeze relaxation technique in my WILD technique found in my sig. I have also used some others that worked for me. Mental counting "One...i'm dreaming, two...I'm dreaming" and so on. I have also tried self-hypnosis with a bit of success as well.
