Thread: What happened? Post Your WILD Attempts, Good or Bad, Here

Thanks for the feedback!

Oh I absolutely appreciate the nature of the balance that WILD requires, especially now that I have more LD events under my belt, including more WILD attempts!

To use the metaphor of a set of scales, there are two basic approaches to producing a balance: taking large steps between attempts, which can cause oscillation between too much and too little, or slowly adding/subtracting from the initial guess, which approaches the balance only from one side.

My practice consistently weighs in too heavily on alertness/wakefulness. So I was suggesting my approach could be one of taking large steps and approaching the balance from over/under oscillations. The reason I thought of that is that I feel that I know how to take the first steps of that approach, the "letting go". If the result is unconsiousness, then next time, "let go less," and so forth. Which could eventually evolve into "just let go of body wakefulness."

The other approach, of simply "holding on to awareness only, not body-wakefulness", I'm not sure how to actually put that in to practice, at least for the first steps.

And practically speaking, I would much much rather fall asleep more and get the opportunity to DILD during this experimentation process, than lie awake for hours. How would I even know I'm making progress getting closer to the balance that way?

Of course the danger in my suggested approach is that I don't make progress there either and I just perpetually oscillate between sleep and wakefulness every time.

Nobody said it was easy

p.s. too good at letting go? What would the symptoms be of that? If I'm losing 3 hours of sleep per WILD attempt every time I try, I don't see that I'm too good at letting go....or maybe I don't understand your last comment?