While trying to get to SP i’m laying still but my throat dries up and i have an urge to swallow my saliva. Is it normal to swallow saliva while getting to SP … or will this keep the body awake?
Nope, it’s normal. Swallow it as though you would do in a dream. Your being to tense. Just relax, fall to sleep as normal, but consciously.
thanks for your reply, i guess i’m getting better sleeping on my back … i can actually close my eyes without opening them for more than 30 seconds 
What I do to keep my mouth from drying up is keep my mouth shut while I breathe through my nose. If my nose is stuffy, I close my mouth partially, so my teeth are together but I can still breathe.
But you eventually have an urge to swallow, especially if it takes 25 minutes to induce SP :-\
i hate swollowing salava…
ones i start the salava just builds up and i have to swolla more fequently… its a problem, lol
so it takes 25 minutes to induce sp??
everytime i try sp i fall asleep within like 2 minutes, lol
if i try to fall asleep normally (before i knew anything aboud ld) it would take me about 30minutes to get to sleep
well i guess something good came out of it 
i just need to practice sp
For me it can get very annoying to have to swallow saliva but after a while I completely forget about it. But there’s a lot more annoying thing that can happen. If you wake up during the night and your pillow is wet from drooling THAT’S annoying 
Drinking water usually helps with the ‘swallowing saliva’ problem. That used to be one of my biggest hurdles, until i discovered for me, it was all in connection with how many pillows i slep on or more accurately the angle of the head and neck. As the need to swallow sometimes was caused by a need to reflex the swallowing muscles cos my neck was raised high, if you get what i mean.
Also might be because of the red theory. If someone tells you not to think about the color red, what do you think about?
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i do that swallowing thing while awake but when im sleeping it all goes on my pillow, my arm/hand, or the bed! 
Hmm, i’ll try drinking more water.
I sleep without using a pillow :-\ I can’t sleep with one