Do you experience the roll-over signal?

[Tiny]

Dear folks,

it is said that when lying on one's back before the body falls asleep, it'll send the mind a strong signal to roll over to the side, just to check if the mind is still awake. If the signal is ignored, the body presumes that the mind is asleep and so begins itself to shut down aswell, so they say.

I believe I've felt this a couple of times, but the temptation is so strong I could barely resist it. With it came a strong urge of "I'd rather lie on my side and fall asleep now than to remain in this feeling" so whatever this is managed to kick me asleep each time.


Do you go through this process before you can detach from the body?


peace

[personalreality]

I've never really felt it but i know where you heard about it.  From the lucidology guy.  His youtube links were posted here a while back.  Nick Newport, that's his name.

[lee46]

I haven't achieved yet an obe, but I can relate to what you're saying, for the last days I have tried to sleep lying on my back, but then I get this feeling of going to my side and is pretty hard for me to sleep lying on my back, but I think it is because I'm used to sleep lying on my side, specially in winter, that way I keep myself warmer.

[personalreality]

I've found that the faster I induce trance, the faster I get over the urge to roll-over.  I have experienced it when I'm trying to go to sleep but not when I'm trying to AP.

[Questioner]

I have not left my body,but i do get the feeling whenever i try to.

[WASD]

I feel the roll over signal almost every morning. Most of the times i just roll over because its soooo relieving But i never felt pain from is as the lucidology guy is talking about.

[cobalt]

Indeed. I do.

What i've noticed, that even the " mental response"' (noticing and thinking about the signal too much) can cause your body not to fall asleep. It just becomes more alert and uncomfortable of the state.
Once i red that one cant actually sleep while plain on back, but that i believe is wrong.
Btw most of my successful attempts (got vibrations etc, no real obe) were while lying on my back.
So when i think i might start to feel uncomfortable while on back, i start to loosen the focus and let my attention drift away a little. When the body starts  "shutting down" the weird sensations usually pull the focus back, and i have a good starting point for experimentation.

[Valkry]

I definitely get that all the time. I always fall asleep on my side. However, I always wake up on my back.

I don't think rolling over stops projection. I can't count the number of times I've rolled over, fell asleep and woke up out of body. Your body just needs to fall asleep, I don't think it matters what position you're in.