From: slider@atashram.com

### - More and more people are having problems with insomnia. And it seems
to be a direct result of modern life and the way we all typically now
tend to live. Long working hours and artificial light messing with our internal clocks to the point of leaving everyone in a near-perpetual
state of jet-lag all the time.

Sleep being something we all depend on to happen somehow by itself, if anything messes with that automatic system insomnia results when we can't
then get-off to sleep like we used to. A variety of pills, potions,
dietary supplements and alternate therapies, all generally failing as we
seek, via such 3rd-party means, to somehow reestablish an otherwise interrupted unconscious process that we don't have any conscious part
in...

So what's the answer?

Well, considering that as a society we're hardly ever likely to change
back now to living in some kind of more harmonious way with nature's more natural time clock, it appears that the only way forward is to instead
finally understand just 'what' sleep is and 'how' it occurs rather than leaving it all to some weird unconscious process that we don't
understand. The step forward then being to take a more 'active' part in
that process rather than just leaving it all to chance. Our reliance upon
an unconscious process that can obviously, for whatever many reasons, sometimes go awry thus leaving someone unable to now fall asleep in the
usual manner, has to change, and the key to this is in understanding just
what sleep is and how it's actually achieved, albeit it usually
completely unconsciously.

WILDers, for example, understand that hypnagogia is the key into that
altered state. That it's by letting these images that appear before us
just before the onset of sleep consciously pull us into an altered state
of awareness, is that how it's all done.

Of course, most people under normal circumstances don't ever remember
that part, they're laying there one moment and the next they're asleep,
but WILDers come to know that what actually happens is that the
appearance of these images then pulls us into that altered state, albeit,
in the case of normal sleep, unconsciously. The result of which is
ordinary unconscious dreams, or in the case of WILDs: lucid dreams and/or
the conscious awareness of being in a sleep-state. This is what WILDing
is!

The radical solution to insomnia being to instead 'deliberately' find
these same hypnagogic images that we never usually remember seeing, and watch/enjoy them until they instead pull you into an unconscious sleep!
If that's what you want!

The choice is ultimately ours! Either put-up with increasing problems of insomnia in our society and thus continue to try and solve it all with 3rd-party chemical & dietary solutions that don't really work, or, take a giant step up and admit there's no going back and instead bring sleep and sleeping more under conscious control by understanding just what sleep actually is and how it's achieved, and thus take a more active hand in
the whole process!

It's simply that there were undiscovered & unrealised options to sleep & sleeping that we didn't suspect!

Two new things come out of all this: not only the cure for insomnia in a
world increasingly out of sink with nature's time clock but also the
ability to WILD, this coupled with the ability to then manage & map a
whole new area of heretofore unavailable but also extremely interesting/intriguing awareness!

I'd call that a step-up, wouldn't you? Conquering sleep + adding an extra 'third' to our lives (an added dimension) in the process that would
normally be wasted sleeping?

(ahem, cough-cough...)

It's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.

https://youtu.be/Z9WDsgCIroE?t=18

;)

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