Hi! I have a promblem with my mout filling with spit, and then
Swallowing it. Any advice on how to not do this? Thanks!
The usual tips given are to not focus on it and to stay hydrated so that you don’t need to salivate to keep your mouth moist. However, in this case, I recommend something more: you need to research lucid dreaming more.
The “saliva problem” is associated with the WILD method, and many people will say things like “I’m trying to WILD but I keep swallowing”. You, however, didn’t mention a method; your post reads like “I need to avoid swallowing or I can’t LD”. I’m not against you trying to WILD — many WILD practitioners have amazing, vivid LDs — but I do think you should research more about WILD and also research other methods if you think that saliva is the crux of your LDing ability. WILD is about attaining a very specific state of mind, and being distracted by saliva so easily tells me that you’ll need a fair bit of practice at simply directing your focus before you sink into a dream consciously.
tl;dr: you can’t make your brain turn off your salivary gland just by willing it, so you need to learn to ignore it or to use other methods.
Thanks for your advice. However I am not attempting WILD. I have attemted it the first time I tried to LD, and i had those promblems. I was just getting the advice for when I get pretty good (if i get pretty good) at LD.
I think the best solution is to just swallow when you need to, without making it such a problem;
you will gradually stop caring about it as you fall asleep anyway.