Simple WILD tech, hopefully

Yes the focusing on my breathing usually works really well, or atleast if I do it before I go to sleep. Then I can even reach SP, but the problem is that it seems to take much longer than other techs for some reason. But if I do it when I wake up during the night I still seem to fall asleep without getting lucid :sad: The clock tech hasn’t worked that well the past few days, guess I haven’t focused enough when falling back to sleep :bored:

It sounds like an interesting technique ! I’m impatient to test it ! :smile:

I’m going to test it now with the humming of my computer. I’ll tell you what happens tommorie.

Hmmm… I tested it yesterday night… and it’s wonderful against insomnia ! :grin: I slept quite immediatly ! :sleep: LOL !

Basilus :rofl: That’s not how it’s supposed to work :razz:

The past few days it hasn’t been working that well at all for me :shrug: I must have been to tired to try hard enough :tongue:

Eh screw it, I fell asleep. Didn’t work.

:content: Do you need to have a very noisy clock ?

No it doesn’t have to be that noisy. If you can hear it fine when you’re in bed then it should be fine :content: And I started thinking that maybe you could fall asleep faster if you only listen to the ticking of the clock. I know that if I listen to the ventilation system at school I usually get tired very fast. And it seems that you can listen to the clock in 2 different ways. One is to focus only on the clock and not hearing anything else, then I think you might fall asleep faster this way so it might not work that well.

That could also explain why it hasn’t worked that well for me the past week. Because that’s what I’ve been doing the past week. The other way is to listen to sounds in general and with this also hearing the clock, this (I think) keeps you more awake since you in general hear more sounds than just the clock. I will try to do this the next few days and see what happens and if there’s really a difference.

Generally speaking, it seems to me that :

  • techniques where you focus on thoughts (like counting) make you sleep harder,
  • techniques where you focus on sensations (visions, sounds) make you sleep easier.
    Don’t you think so ?

There are also different ways to listen to the clock only. The clock in my bedroom seems to emit several sorts of sounds at one at the same time… Loud ‘don, don, don’, which is heard first, and hardly audible ‘tick-tick-tick’ in the background. (Sorry if I sound idiotic :smile: ) So I wonder, what will be better for this technique: listening to any sound you hear, concentrating on one of the sounds or trying to listen to the softest one?

Yes Basilus West, it seems like that (atleast for me) But I don’t think it works that way for everyone, some people can’t fall asleep when they focus on thoughts :bored:

I don’t know ilana, try it out and see for yourself :content: I only found out that you can listen to it in 2 ways a few days ago. And I haven’t really done any testing so far :neutral: I had to get up way too early this morning :tongue: I couldn’t even remember any dreams :cry: But I get to sleep in the morning, so then I’ll try it out again :cool_laugh:

Well atleast for me it seems that it works way better to just listen to general sounds :cool: But this morning I didn’t get the popping sounds in my ears, I has something else that’s a bit hard to explain. I sort of felt like my consiousness moved around a bit outside my head in different directions. And after that happened a few times I fell asleep. But this process happened several times this morning :content:

I woke up from a dream and wrote it down and then I focused on sounds in general. After a while I got this strange thing and then I fell asleep and had a dream. Then I guess I han NREM and then a dream again. After dreaming for a while I woke up and wrote down my dreams and then did the same thing again. That’s pretty much how it worked. I was close to lucidity quite often but I think I only got lucid once.

Guess not many people are trying this or if they are it doesn’t work. Or maybe they don’t like to post about how it’s going for them :tongue: Anyway it hasn’t worked for me for a while, but suddenly today it worked again :cool_laugh: And now I’m thinking that maybe it only works when I sleep on my side :eh: Because as far as I can remember that’s when it’s worked best and today I was sleeping on my side when it worked.

Or maybe it didn’t work because I’ve barely been able to breath through my nose since I’ve got the flu a few weeks ago :razz:

Oops ! I forgot to practice your technique… :shy: I’ll try again this night. But if it works for me, it will be a miracle ! :tongue:

A little question : on which side are you sleeping, JaRoD ?

I slept on the left side this morning, but I don’t think there’s that much difference of what side you sleep :tongue:

Another idea : what about lying on the side where your clock is in front of you ? When astral projecting, it’s recommended to focus your consciousness on a point out of your body. Focusing on the noise of your clock could play this role.

I tried again this night… As for me it’s definitely a great method for finding sleep very fast… :sad:

That might work too, but I can’t try that because there’s a wall on one side of the bed and on the other side I have a “table” that’s made from cardboard boxes. But it’s so small that I only have room for a pen and paper there, and the clock I use is quite big :tongue: And I don’t have room for a larger table either.

One thing you could try is to repeat “I will realise that I’m dreaming” or something while listening to the clock. I’ve found that works a bit for adjusting how consious your are, then you also get MILD into the tech :grin:

How funny, JaRoD ! I had the same idea when I wrote the last post, but I thought : “I’ll try this technique first, then if it works, I’ll post the results”. :cool_laugh:
Precisely, the idea I had was to try and locate the thought “Realize you’re dreaming !” in the alarm clock. I don’t know if it’s easy.

Hmm, after a while of trying it seems that I can only get the popping sound in my ears when sleeping on my side :eh: I don’t know why this is, it could have something to do with one ear being blocked when I sleep on my side. And I didn’t get lucid this morning even if I got the popping several times and I did MILD and even a short WBTB :cry:

In Tibetan methods of dreaming, it’s said to be related with the breathing laterality. When you sleep on the right side, your left nostril is more open than your right nostril and vice versa (quite easy to verify, just be aware of the nostril you breathe better through). And in yoga, breathing with your right or left nostrils leads to increase solar or lunar energy (yang or yin, in other terms).
There is a running experiment about this on Lucidity.com.