Induction attempts keeping me awake

When I attempt MILD or WILD in the early morning, I am almost assured that I will not fall asleep again that night, which is sort of self-defeating. When I just go to sleep I have no problem with falling asleep fairly quickly. It’s a dilemma - either I focus on technique and have trouble falling asleep or I drift away and have no LD.

How to approach this difficulty.

-NL

A couple of tips from when I had insomnia: first, if a dream related technique is messing up with your sleep, it might be because without realizing you’re breaking your sleep cycle somehow. So if trying induction in the early morning isn’t working, you might want to try WBTB, or even better, change your whole sleep schedule so that you go to bed about a half hour earlier every day—that will give you half an hour to wake up very lightly and fall asleep again, with the bonus that you’ll be in the phase of your sleep cycle in which dreams are longer, stabler and more vivid.

The second great thing you can try to work on is the psychological aspect of it. Sometimes we “decide” we have a problem that we actually don’t, and sometimes we create unnecessary obstacles in our lives. That’s inherent of being human, and so it is that we created psychology to solve that. So next time you incubate an LD and wake up in the middle of early morning, why don’t you go downstairs, fix yourself some hot chocolate, read the fun pages of the newspapers, stretch and go back to bed? You could try some relaxation technique if you happen to know any, or anything really. shrugs Just relax and realize there’s no way there’s something hardwired in your brain making it so that you won’t get to sleep whenever you LD—and if the cause can’t be neurological, then it must be psychological, which is great, because it means you can sort it out. :smile:

Good luck. :wink:

coughhttps://www.well.com/~mick/insomnia/cough
altough some techiques are weird, it has some good tips about insomnia.

Just my two cents.