I’ve been trying WILD, but whenever I’m at my most relaxed, I start getting this all-consuming urge to move, to flail, to lash my arms around, anything to not be still anymore. I can resist it for a while, but it seems to get worse the longer I stay still, and comes in waves. Worse, it’s started to happen when I’m not trying to LD. Does anyone know anything I can do to relax?
EDIT: In addition, I find it completely impossible to clear my mind. No matter how focused I am on counting(even with an “I’m dreaming” between each number) I have that little voice in the back of my head chattering on and on about what I can overhear on the TV, what I’m going to do when Lucid, anything that happens to be in my head, and nothing I can do can shut him up. Is this normal, or do I need to fix that in order to LD?
It’s in a different room, and if I walked into the living room and turned the TV off, my parents would yell at me. I honestly wonder if it’s even possible to LD in my house. If the collective IQ score of the rest of my family were the global average temperature, they’d be wearing winter coats in Cuba.
I’m not sure about the urge to move, I’ve never really felt anything like that before. Perhaps you could try tensing your whole body for a few moments before you start your relaxation; that might help.
I am unsure if you can WILD when you are thinking like this, I have lay for 1-2 hours in a state like that before and gotten nowhere.
I found the most effective way for me of stopping those kinds of thoughts was to imagine them fading away. Almost like the volume of them was being turned down. Although at a certain point (after a time) thoughts seemed to occur spontaneously along with Images or sounds, I believe this is HI.
I think the urge to move is just a stage of WILD like if your body wanted to check if you are sleeping. You just need to stay still no matter what and at some point it should stop.
About the tv noise… can’t you use earplugs? I think you could find a pair cutting around 30db (if the tv is in another room I don’t think you’ll need to cut out more and they should allow you to eventually hear an alarm)
Why dont you meditate before you sleep? If u have a candle, light it up and meditate on it for 15 minutes. I do it before i sleep and it really helps me.
Ok anyways this happens to me too all the time. The thing is that your SC just wont shut up and is your way of teasing yourself into messing up. Its like I don’t want to move but because of that the voice in my head wants to annoy you. The way I resolve this problem is try to imagine a situation that would be like a dream nothing over creative but very simple and just let my mind flow on it. That takes the urge from me and acts as a VILD it build off of.
*The evil manifestation slaps himself across the face
Stop slacking do your essay!
Lol I have the same problem with MILD sometimes. A few times I actually got confused while repeating my mantra because it’s like: “When I’m- [Flying will be-] -dreaming- [-so cool, I-] -I will remember- [-can’t wait to-] -I… wha?”
What disturbs me, is that I really agree with the person saying my subconscious wants to annoy me. If I’m trying to imagine something, like for rehearsing the dream I want, weird things happen, like I’ll fall off something, or a dream character will trip.
That really only happens to me when I’m WILD’ing, i’m thinking of something, and my brain changes it to something random. For me it’s a great sign that i’m getting close to a dream.
