I have never had normal HI, but i do get auditory HI when i try to WILD. However, as soon as i realize that i am hearing it, i become very aware and have to start WILD over again. Also, I believe that most people get vivid HI while they are in SP but when i have these auditory hallucinations, i am not in SP.
Any advice?
Thanks.
Like vibrations, the noises people can hear while falling asleep are related to the physical body. With WILD, you have to diminish your awareness of the physical body while shifting towards greater awareness of your dream body. It can be a very tricky job, but if you hold on to the physical body too much, you’ll often have to start all over again. So the best advice I can give is to stay calm when you’re hearing them, don’t focus on them too much and eventually let them be. Keep focused on proceeding towards SP by sinking visualizations of whatever technique you’re using. This way you can more easily make the transition to the flexible dream body. If you keep focusing on the sounds, you’ll keep attached to the paralyzed physical body and WILD will become very difficult.
PS. Auditory HI are in fact the normal noises of neuronal activity, shifts in body temperature, the lowering of blood pressure, blood flow, muscle spasms and brain activity. Even microscopic eye movements produce sounds. They all get magnified during sleep onset until we can actually hear them, and this magnification happens because external influences are being shut down. These noises are continuously happening, especially when physiological changes are occuring. But we can never hear them if we don’t shut down the external influences. That’s why they can only be perceived when the mind stays awake while the body falls asleep.
I dont mean like normal noices, i ment stuff like voices.
It sounds like there is a conversation, but i only hear it for a few seconds, but when i focus on them they stop right away.
Voices belong to the same category as the noises I mentioned. With voices, it’s possible that the mind tries to make sense of the noises it receives. It manages to do that because in that state you’re having lots of theta brainwaves, which are correlated with hallucinations and visions. It’s also possible that the mind uses actual memory fragments of that day or previous days to make sense of the noise recordings. In any case, it’s pretty normal, and the main thing you have to do in order to proceed on WILD, is (imo) to ignore them and simply let them be as they are.
Ok
So do these sounds mean i am close to a dream/SP, or are they different than visual HI?
In my case, they usually occur before any visuals appear. But I don’t really know if that’s also the case in general… Also, you don’t have to see visuals in order to WILD, although most people do see visual HI of some kind.
In any case, I do suspect that you’re pretty close to SP. Next time, try concentrating on letting your body sink into your bed. Don’t focus too much, but wish it to happen and feel what you’re experiencing without actively thinking about it. Let yourself sink by letting it all be, yet while remaining passively aware of it.
If you often have auditory HH, you can use this method. Try to count in your head repetitively from 1 to 10. When 5 amongst the numbers you think about are pronounced by an “external” voice, you are dreaming and then you can try to spin on your axis or roll out of your bed to enter a LD. It’s Flo’s method. I hope it will work for you too!
Sounds good! Thanks guys, i’ll try this when i first go to bed and then with WBTB, i’ll post the results tomorrow.
It didnt work, but i didnt hear the HH before i fell asleep, and i didnt really give it 100%.
Maybe tonight it will work