 What's up ladies and gents today's question comes from our buddy Rena and she's saying when I do the waking juice lucid dreaming technique Should I be able to feel my body and hear external sounds when I'm doing it? And she was a bit confused. She was saying, you know, hopefully this goes through to Stefan Just just a quick note on that when you do send me an email And that's an email to contact at how to lucid.com. I do get through all of them Sometimes it takes a bit longer depending on like what I'm working on at the time So say if like recently I've been working on my books. I haven't had a lot of times to look at the email So it's gonna take a bit longer, but nevertheless So Rena when you're doing a wild technique There is definitely a period of time where you're switching from being awake to being asleep And this period of time can be anywhere from five minutes right up to 10 15 minutes It varies from person to person. But during this time, there's sort of like in the middle period So you've got being being awake here being asleep the in the middle period is a Period of time where you will feel Sometimes you feel like you're floating. Okay, when you feel it when you experience sleep paralysis You'll feel like you're being sort of pressed down against the bed It really does depend on you as a person. It's never gonna be the same for every single person So either you will feel like you're being pressed down and you're having sleep paralysis or you'll feel like a floating you might feel like you're Vibrating you might hear a buzzing sound. You might hear nothing at all but commonly you will sometimes hear like voices Sat like nature sounds sort of ambient sounds maybe the sound of birds or trees or water running And little sort of fragments of conversation. This is perfectly normal but what's happening here is you're Transitioning from being awake to being asleep But your consciousness is staying active, right? So your mind is staying awake, but your body is going to sleep your muscles are becoming paralyzed So you will find that not only do you hear things that are in your mind only? Okay, but you also will hear For example, let's say you're going to sleep in a in a in your room and right outside your your window It's like a busy street. Okay, there's lots of sound and commotion going on What's gonna happen is when you try a wild in that situation the sounds that are coming from outside in a real world Will sort of mix into That experience that you're having so you will hear things or like bits of things from the real world as you're transitioning into the dream world and Especially if you're doing this properly, it's going to be very difficult to tell these apart You won't know which things you're hearing in a real world and which things are in the dream or in your mind Because your your consciousness is sort of in that middle ground You're not awake and you're not asleep. You're sort of in the middle So it's nothing to be worried about and you're not doing anything wrong at all. So keep going with that So yeah, just another quick note about my new book the reality checks guide I'm not going to give away too much, but if you just search amazon for Ultimate guide to reality checks or just lucid dreaming reality checks. This will pop up It's beautifully designed cover and you've got a lot of content in here All about reality checks and how and why they work if you've been struggling with them at all Especially if you've found that they're not showing up in your dreams or they're not working this little guide here Is what you need to read So I go ahead and check that out. If you do pick up a copy, then I'm very grateful. Please leave a review Let me know what you liked about it If you've got something you think I could improve on maybe leave a comment on this video or just send me an email And I do reply to all of them Eventually, so I'll see you in the next video