I’ve been training WILD when I get to bed and I’m at the point where I take like 15 minutes to start feeling my body tingling and as if it’s separated of me(it seems like my body is disconnected and the only sensation I get from it is the breathing and the sensation of being there), and sometimes I hear that weird static.
But that’s not what I have doubts about. While I’m doing trying doing the WILD normally I count until 100 and then I try to “enjoy” the weird feeling one has between being awake/dreaming and the random senseless thoughts that come to mind. I do this with the objective of not falling asleep, but lately I’ve been using affirmations and creative visualizations with the objective of changing my habits related to a specific part of my life.
The problem is the best time I have to practice creative visualization is when I go to bed. So I’ve been wondering if I can lay there still and relaxed like I do when I practice WILDing but instead of counting and being aware of the minimal sensory changes I feel, I can practice my creative visualizations and say mentally my affirmations and if they don’t interfere with the “body falling asleep while the mind is awake” phenomenon.
I tried to do this some time ago and what happened is that the visualizations I was doing started making no sense and being random (just like the normal thoughts I have when I’m “falling asleep” through WILD). Is there the risk that when I fall asleep I’ll dream with the visualization instead of the possibility of having a lucid dream ?