Thread: Control thoughts, or let them drift?

Originally Posted by Dianeva

I tried it again this morning and got a bit closer. I got that buzzing/vibration feeling for longer than I have before.

I didn't go into a LD, and spent about an hour with no results becuase I have a really bad problem in which I seem to get an urge to swallow about every 10 seconds while trying to WILD. But I'm glad I actually stayed conscious for a good minute or so during a sleep stage. I didn't get any imagery and it wasn't a success, but at least I've gotten more practice with entering sleep and am hopefully getting closer to successfully WILDing.

I did have a false awakening. I got up from my bed, thought I had failed and was too tired of it to try anymore, decided to take a shower, went over to my closet, did a reality check and realized I was dreaming. But I woke up immediately. I guess I won't count that as a LD.

Thanks everyone. This thread has cleared some things up for me. Now I focus on the swallowing problem. If I didn't get that, it seems it would be so easy. I don't have much trouble ignoring urges to roll over or itches, it's just having to swallow every 10 seconds that's making WILDing seem nearly impossible. I guess the urge to swallow went away this morning at some point, because I was conscious during some sleep stage.

For swallowing try tilitng your head to the side.

I'm going to start a new thread about the swallowing thing.