Weird jaw feeling while entering LD

Hi all!

I’ve been practicing WILD a lot lately and I’ve had some success, but whenever I start entering SP my jaw starts to hurt a lot and that ruins the SP because my body wakes up due to the pain. I don’t know if the pain I’m experiencing is real, or I might be clenching my teeth while I sleep. I’m not sure what the problem is but its very disruptive in the whole process. This never used to happen to me.

You probably are clenching your teeth.

Once, I felt pain in my left forearm… I thought it might just be part of some HH, but when I gave up, my arm hurt so bad. I WAS tensed up in that area.

When you start WILD ing, just pay attention to muscles that start to tense up (especially in the head/face… I tend to forget those), and slowly relax them. I find eventually, that they stay relaxed on their own and I can concentrate on my own thoughts.

I hope that helps a bit. :content:

This happened to me all the time a few years back, and I never really fixed it I just kind of accepted it as part of SP, and as long as I kept my mind off it it wouldn’t bother me. I know for a fact that I clench my teeth in my sleep though.

D:

It’s so awful for your jaw!

My sister had to get a night guard for a while because she clenched her teeth as she slept.

Yeah it is, I was gonna get a mouth guard and still should. I had an orthodontist take a look at my teeth and in the first five seconds he was like, “So you clench your jaw in your sleep eh?” Pretty bad :sad:

That’s odd, do oyu feel any pain during the day?

Not sure if you’re asking me or the OP, but for me, I don’t have pain during the day but I have a bit of an oral fixation I must admit. I chew gum a lot too.

And also I’m remembering more: it wasn’t necessarily a jaw pain I used to get, but a rapid clenching, almost like chattering as if I were cold, so loud I could hear it. Not necessarily painful, mind you. This would happen in SP and not in the LD.