On page 114 of EWLD there is a curious WILD technique called the “No Body” or “Ego-point” technique. To perform it, you have to relax and fall asleep concentrating on the thought that your body will become imperceptible. Eventually, once you no longer feel your body, you need to “imagine that you are a point of awareness from which you percieve, feel, think, and act in the dream world. Freely float about the dream world like a mote on a sunbeam.”
However, the technique then gets rather odd and confusing. He suggests that since being a disembodied spark is boring (probably correct), you should hijack the body of a dream character instead. However, how he suggests to do this is rather vague; apparently one has to focus on hypnagogic imagery while initially falling asleep as well as perform the no body technique, just to be able to take over a DC. For some reason this combination has another name, the “image-ego-point technique.” What I don’t understand is, why is focusing on HI while initially falling asleep crucial to taking over DCs? What happens if you don’t focus on HI? I guess there must be a big enough difference between the “ego-point” and “image-ego-point” techniques to warrant different names for them, but what exactly is it?
Other than that, has anyone tried and/or had success with this technique? I’ve tried this a couple times with no success (like with other WILD techniques, I usually fall asleep too fast). Is it worth it?