Determine the position you’ll be in when waking up?
For the first time I actually managed to fall asleep on my back, last night. I had a WILD, as my mind felt far clearer than when I’m lying on my side. After a bit of experimentation, I started to wake up, so I got myself ready to stay absolutely still.
Problem is, when I woke up, I was face down with the most annoying pain in my spine, which was twisted around at an odd angle. This made DEILD impossible for me.
I don’t fully understand the question but if you are like so in your MILD, “the next time i am dreaming, i will realize i am dreaming”, but you could add to that, “I will enter SP and stay that way and will not roll around in the night and will stay on my back” or something of the kind
Interesting question!
MILD is commonly used to modulate the brain and mind functions and activities - you could autosuggest to wake up at certain hour, wake up and not move to do DEILD etc., but can it be used to suggest physical position of body?
It surely is connected with proprioreceptors which define the actual position of the body, but these proprioreceptors are shutting down when you’re falling asleep and sleeping 'cause they’re aren’t needed.
I think all you have to do is try
Personally, rather than trying to blast my mind and embed a command by repeating it, I’d be more inclined to try to work with our natural reactions. Before starting to sleep I would focus on how important it is not to move. Perhaps even sending the image that I’m on a cliff and moving could kill me, or that I’m in a tree and serious injury could occur from moving. I expect we have natural built in defences against that, and suspect trying to activate them would be more effective than brute forcing our sub-conscious.
Brute force, when it comes to my own mind, is what has been effective for me up to this point, MILD and otherwise. So I think I’ll stick with that rather than depending upon unreliable natural reactions.
Of course, such a thing would vary from person to person. Have you ever tested your theory?
Sort of, there have been times when I needed to reduce my movements or not move to a certain place in my bed, and I believe I stopped myself doing so. I was not recorded or monitored through the night however, I can only go on the thoughts I observed as my conscious control of my body slipped away. Several times I was jarred awake as an attempt to move triggered by discomfort failed because of the barrier, so the discomfort grew and made my nights sleep disrupted.
I frequently use self-instruction to wake myself up without alarms. I don’t use a forceful MILD method to do so. I simply focus on my intent to wake at such a time, imagine myself waking at that time, then ‘know’ that I will. There is no real repetition involved, once is enough usually if I am clear enough with my intent.
When I first started to work with this system, I had to have the motivation to wake up. I couldn’t use it for school or work for example because I simply didn’t want to wake for those things. After some time however I can now use it reliably and wake for work even after a very short period of sleep. (Such as 3 hours for example.) I still set an alarm of course, but usually I wake much earlier, usually accurate to 5-10 minutes when I set my internal alarm in such a way. I actually did this the past 2 days, to start to move my schedule back. Setting my intention to wake up at about 8am, I did, and went back to sleep because I was tired, I then woke at 9am and got up. I had gone to sleep at around 1am that night. The first time I did this was as a child, we were catching a plane very early in the morning so had to wake up early, I woke before anyone else because I was excited, I simply investigated from there.
MILD feels too much like a battle with your subconscious to me, I don’t see a battle, only a growing self-understanding which unlocks your ability to control your own mind in ways previously not possible. Not to say MILD can’t work of course, but personally it feels dissonant.
I suppose my subconscious must be more obedient than others. When I use MILD, I go into a trance state and it’s as if the mantra is a ring of words rotating around my brain as it repeats. It repeats itself without thought.
Also, it sounds like what you’ve been doing actually is just a variant of MILD, with more of a focus on the intention and belief rather than the command.
I’ve noticed when I WILD that if I fall asleep in particular position I stay in this position until waking up. Whenever I have “micro” awakening I do DEILD automatically and I know that I’m in still position because logically speaking we enter SP and we can’t move until “micro” awakening but if I know that I’m going to awake from previous dream I can prevent any movement and still remain in wanted position.
But maybe it’s possible to use MILD but I don’t believe in that too much. If you don’t consciously awake from previous dream I don’t know how much of control you can have in “micro” awakening…
