I stopped trying to WILD a while ago after having a few LDs just doing WBTB. Yesterday I decided to try falling asleep while listening to music on my ipod, and I think I had better success than I have before. I was basically just concentrating on the music, and at some point I felt like it was getting darker–like waves of darkness surrounding me as if I was falling into a deeper state of sleep. I started to kind of feel like a cold breeze and heard some strange sounds. I also got a weird sort of floating or sinking sensation that I’ve gotten before having my few LDs. My eyes started twitching like uncontrollably, as if I was entering REM sleep? I got distracted when the song on my ipod switched and woke up.
Mainly what I’m wondering is since this was at night when I normally fall asleep, why would this work? And why did my eyes do that?
if i understand you right, you were doing WBTB and wondered why your eyes moved oO. by the way…listening to music is a possible part of WBTB. but the thing with your eyes… hm… i think this should be normal…
my own opinion:
i am highly motivated, but i can’t imagine having a lucid dream just by thinking of it or telling myself that it will work tonight. WILD is the best to imagine, but has this hallucinations which aren’t very nice… well, i think i’m trying WILD tonight again, but your WBTB-only method is also worth a try
Well with my eyes I meant that since I was falling asleep normally at night (around 11:30), and I’m wondering why they would do that if im not entering REM sleep
And the way WBTB worked for me was that I just woke up, went to the bathroom, and fell back asleep very quickly. But then I would remember a dream and and sometime get a certain feeling like I was in a kind of transition between dreams, my brain would recognize that and I would sort of roll over (with my dream body) and fly out of my body into an LD.
Doing WBTB is like enough to give me the slight bit of extra consciousness I needto have a lucid dream (this has worked for me in during a nap too)
