Thought I would post another update
Well I practiced the WILD method for a while and didn't really make any progress. I got sick of waking myself everytime when I would either fall back to sleep, or just lay there feeling like I wanted to sleep. So I stopped practicing that method for a while. Funnily enough I had another experience, I woke up one night and I swear I felt a hand reach down and try to pull me out. I got the whole vibration WHOOSHing sounds and I felt like I was so close to popping out but then it just stopped. Strange.
Anyway I've decided to start practicing again and I'm coming at it from a new angle. I'm going to treat it similar to my meditation practice as in a daily steady practice without 'too much' expectation. What I've been doing is using my concentration that I've developed with meditation, and just set my focus upon moving my energy body "upwards". This seems to be effective and some low pulse vibrations will start pretty quickly. Then, continuing with my applied focus I start to drift into the deeper states of relaxation and can reach the hypnagogic state. This is about as far as I've gotten so far, the deeper I drift into relaxation, the stronger the 'energy body' movements / vibrations become. And I'm just doing it during the day too, I haven't been trying to do it whilst in a 'sleepful' state.
Well I will keep up the practice and I understand that this might take a while. I suppose it's just going to be a practice of getting myself deeper into these relaxation states, until I reach the state that I can project from. Thanks so far for the help, if anyone has any other advice or experience i'd love to hear it.
EDIT: Just found this link
http://www.lucidology.com/blog/101/obe-vibrations/
Seems like this method I am trying should work ok, just a matter of getting deeper into the relaxation. Nice to read a "map" of it too, it says the OBE should come after the really big vibrations have stopped?
Well I practiced the WILD method for a while and didn't really make any progress. I got sick of waking myself everytime when I would either fall back to sleep, or just lay there feeling like I wanted to sleep. So I stopped practicing that method for a while. Funnily enough I had another experience, I woke up one night and I swear I felt a hand reach down and try to pull me out. I got the whole vibration WHOOSHing sounds and I felt like I was so close to popping out but then it just stopped. Strange.
Anyway I've decided to start practicing again and I'm coming at it from a new angle. I'm going to treat it similar to my meditation practice as in a daily steady practice without 'too much' expectation. What I've been doing is using my concentration that I've developed with meditation, and just set my focus upon moving my energy body "upwards". This seems to be effective and some low pulse vibrations will start pretty quickly. Then, continuing with my applied focus I start to drift into the deeper states of relaxation and can reach the hypnagogic state. This is about as far as I've gotten so far, the deeper I drift into relaxation, the stronger the 'energy body' movements / vibrations become. And I'm just doing it during the day too, I haven't been trying to do it whilst in a 'sleepful' state.
Well I will keep up the practice and I understand that this might take a while. I suppose it's just going to be a practice of getting myself deeper into these relaxation states, until I reach the state that I can project from. Thanks so far for the help, if anyone has any other advice or experience i'd love to hear it.
EDIT: Just found this link
http://www.lucidology.com/blog/101/obe-vibrations/
Seems like this method I am trying should work ok, just a matter of getting deeper into the relaxation. Nice to read a "map" of it too, it says the OBE should come after the really big vibrations have stopped?