Am I right in thinking I can use this to project?

[Blazewind]

Lately I have began to become very aware of shifts in levels of awareness as I fall asleep.  it is actually really incredible I think.  Often now at night, I will lay in bed, and as I try to go to sleep, I will think about my level of consciousness, and a good number of times now, as I pay attention to it, I can honestly feel the, 'shift' as I become more asleep, and less awake.  Sometimes, it seems as though there are a couple of these shifts, each time taking me lower and lower in my level of conscious awareness.  I wondered though in the last little while if there is a way I could take this new skill I am learning, and use the awareness of the shifts to try to project.  Does anyone have any advice on this?

[Synergy]

You are just one step away from using sleep onset suggestion.  It is already well known that in deeper states of consciousness, our subconscious mind is very open to suggestion.  The trick is, take what you have accomplished one step further and try to remain conscious to the exact moment that you feel sleep take over... and don't try to stop it, but instead at that exact moment, give yourself the suggestion to have an OBE, and more importantly, to remember it! 

I have used that method to more success than any other.

[Blazewind]

Thanks for the advice.  I think that for me to be able to do something like what you suggest will take a good bit of practice, but I will give it a try.

[SnakeDoctor]

what i hate...

is when thats happening, your not quite ready to go to sleep and your dream starts to take over your thought pattern. leaves you thinking "what the hell that makes no sense!"  you snap out of it for a few seconds and then its back.

[Blazewind]

This is just so typical of Murphy's law I suppose.  It seems that now that I know that I could theoretically use this sleep awareness to learn to project, I now have almost no more instances where I become aware of those shifts.  I suppose I can mabye try to tell myself to notice them, any opinions on this?