Thread: Keep falling asleep

I have been trying to WILD and FILD, and I have the same problem with both of these in that I can't catch myself entering REM and stay conciousness. Am I doing it right?

With WILD I just lie as if trying to fall asleep. I repeat a mantra to try to keep my concentration, I just say 'alert' to myself over and over. Images and hallucinations form easily and quite rapidly become realistic but at that point I'm sucked into sleep with no control, I always remember that the whole scene suddenly became 'real' but by that point it's beyond my control, and the jump form just a few pictures to sleep is sudden with nothing inbetween - it happens really fast. Often I then awake with a start and have to start again, or just continue to sleep normally.

With FILD it's very much the same. I start to feel very sleepy think to start about wiggling fingers, either I leave it too late and fall asleep, or the thought that I need to start doing it and actually starting to wiggle the fingers brings me back to full conciousness.

I notice there is a recent thread about concentrating and WILD. I meditate and can hold my concentration for long periods most of the time. Should WILD be regarded as a meditation?

Does this get better with practice and do I just keep trying or is there anything I'm not doing right?

Thanks.