Your opinion about eyes twitching

[Basilus West]

I've read many beginners accounts about eyes twitching when practising WILD. I still find this very curious. It never happened to me so I've some questions.
- do people who got eyes twitching in the beginning still have it now? Is it only a beginner problem?
- do people have this just after going to bed or when practising WBTB? I have the feeling that it generally happens after going to bed. Thus in my opinion, it can't be the Rapid Eye Movement cause you're not in REM sleep.
- I've the feeling that it may happen because your eyes tend to roll upwards when you fall asleep but you try to maintain them horizontaly. So it would just be a relaxation problem and it may explain why it seems mainly to happen to beginners. Do you think it's a good explanation?

[asclepius]

I can demonstrate eye twitching just by closing my eyes - it is an involuntary thing.

It developed for me after I started meditating regularly and seems related to a relaxed physical state.

Eye movement has been linked to memory access and to emotional states. In neurolinguistic programming they believe that where your eyes look shows what type of memory you are accessing (and if you are lying). There is a form of psychotherapy called eye-movement desensitisation, which uses flashing lights and eye movements to work through trauma.

I suspect that more experienced WILDers just ignore the eye twitching, whereas for newbies its a new experience so it gets more attention.

[Wolf]

I've never had it, I don't believe, or else I probably wouldn't have started WILDing in the first place. Then again, I WILD differently than it says to do on the site, so it might be pertaining to only the basic and variations of it. *shrugs*

[Somnio Forte]

I've successfully WILDed several times and I've never experienced any such thing.

[JesseRevis]

I'm very new to WILD and every night right as I get comfortable and start to focus my eyes usually twitch. The part that said it may be the eyes trying to stay horizontal while they need to go up sounds like my problem.

[Somnio Forte]

Hmm...dunno, like I said, never experienced anything of the sort..

[hekimoglu]

I also had it in the beginning, now im fresh though (a)

[Sonia]

Hmm, interesting topic; I came here from your signature, Basilus. Eye twitching during WILD, eh? Eye twitching has happened to me recently, but not during WILD. Instead, I was trying not to sleep, at about four in the morning for the past couple of nights. (I had slept during the day). I was laying down to rest, with my eyes open. For some reason, as I drifted off into my thoughts, (also while experiencing hypnagogic imagery, it was hard to stay awake) my eyes began to move without me having much control over them, whenever I lost concentration on staying awake. I tried to focus on different objects in my room, but my eyes continued to move as they pleased. I had to make an effort to stop them. This would have been a good time to practice WILD, but I didn' have the time for that.