Well i have to get myself to concentrate, that’s the hard thing. I have to keep focused which i haven’t been able to do the last 2 weeks
Well… failed on the counting-thing but i almost got into the hypnagogic stage while i was thinking about… i don’t know what i was thinking about but suddenly it felt like i fell through the bed and stuff. But i got excited and my arms twitched and pulled me out of it :C
I hate it when that happens… 
Well, you were remarkably close! 
Just remember to relax through all of that next time, you will transition smoothly into a dream. I used to be thrown all over the place sometimes in HI 
but by waiting long enough, a dream forms, you just have to observe the whole thing passively.
Every night that i have done C-WILD for the last 2 weeks, i have not gotten to HI once. This is not good. I can’t get to have a lucid dream again. How can i really keep focused on counting?
Like others have said before me, DILD variants are often suggested for beginners, in order to get confident with the first LD’s, like using the MILD technique. Good luck to you 
If you do it when you wake up in the night then you don’t need to experiance hh or hi just when you wake up in the night imediatly go back to sleep and count to 10 in your mind while trying to get back to sleep. When you get to 10 open your eyes and do an rc. If you are awake then do it again if you are asleep then well done you are sleeping. You will suprise yourself that you are dreaming.
But i often fall asleep counting and eventually stop counting. and MILD doesn’t really work for me
I have the same problem. It just takes practise and to find the magic number to count to and to recoginse that moment you are asleep so you don’t loose consiousness.
Yeah i will practice
wow looks very interesting and looks like it will work well gonna try this ^^
geekboy!
Hey all, I just want to share something sort of funny. A couple of nights ago I decided to count from One Thousand on down as I fall asleep. I got to around 750 or so when I lost my place as I was getting so sleepy. I decided, well I’ll just start at 800 instead of entirely starting over…
But for some reason I started to count:
8 Thousand… 7 Thousand Nine Hundred 99…
7 Thousand 998… 7 Thousand 997… 
Ooops! It wasn’t until I got down to about 7 thousand 750 that I realized what I was doing! 
But it was a great concentration practice and I did have some awesome vivid dreams. I recommend this actually.
I’ll take that recommendation 
. I sometimes have issues concentrating long enough to properly perform this technique, so I need the practice.
Last night I realized why I kept drifting off and losing my place as I would do my count down.
Truthfully, it was because I my mind thought it was boring so it would try to come up with random things so that I would lose focus and unconsciously fall asleep.
So this is what I did. First I thought that my mind was like how a child is when it comes to reading. As a small kid, you need pictures to go along with your story book right? the mind wants to see some pictures, yet you need to keep it focused
So I combined visualizing with the counting.
I see a green chalk board. I see my left hand holding a white chalk stick;
Now 100 is being drawn.
Now I see right hand holding a chalk-board eraser; quickly erases 100 and then left hand quickly writes 99.
Right hand quickly erases 99 and chalk-holding hand quickly writes 98… and so on.
Or
Keep it more simple and on a dark screen I see in white the number 100 or 1000 and then it flashes to 99 or 999 and so on, actually trying NOT to verbally say the #'s in my head but simply see them.
heh sadly for me this didn’t work last night cause i couldn’t keep concentration i was so tired and then didn’t even remember any dream i may have had ;.; (was a short night 3 hours of sleep X.x)
but gonna keep trying and thats looks like a good suggestion as well
and thank you 6 
i should probaly go post in that new people forum soon XD
I shall try this technique!
does anyone have any hints on that?
yay had a bit of luck with this last night need to count to like 150 though i think cause i got to 100 with no luck then accidentally fell asleep XD
but wow this is awsome so far
never tried it
i will try it
I’m going to try this tonight with a twist. I think maybe making it harder count downwards would require more concentration, thus it will probably carry over into a dream. I’m going to count down in Japanese, tomorrow night I’m going to skip every other number. I’ll post if this works or if I think of any more ways.
That’s so funny I, out of the blue, started doing the same thing, I was reliving my lucid dreams in my head figuring out how my body felt. The only thing different is indeed a lighter feeling, no gravity. So I have been trying to be aware of gravity and the heaviness of my body in WL, I had not anticipated that this is actually causing me to get quite exhausted! LOL 
Hopefully I can keep this up so one of these days it will dawn on me in a dream that I feel awfully light and become lucid.