You said "All that ever happens is I fall asleep each and every time, sitting, lying down, I don't know what to do"
I think this is a combination of several factors:
1: Tiredness. If you practice trance without head support, your head would tilt and wake you up, and it would feel like you were blinking in and out of your session. If this happens, it is because you are overly tired. More excercise, better sleep. No T.V., no stimulants. Try doing trance without head support and see. I don't know your level of self-awareness, but if the type of "falling asleep" you are experiencing does not sound like this blinking type, then its probably:
2: Lack of present moment awareness. How often are you aware of yourself thinking throughout the day? 99.999% of people are asleep in the sense they are totally lost in thought. Their consciousness gets "carried away" from the present moment in a stream of thought that hooks their attention. This is nearly identical to the process that occurs when entering Dreaming. Mind taming helps with this but what you really want is to
be the awareness of yourself.
For two weeks I had virtually no sleep because I was painfully aware of my entranced body while another part of me just "wanted to sleep" i.e. go into a state of unconsciousness. It's just a bad habbit, that's all. We associate physical sleep with going unconscious. This second type of sleeping I am referring to is purely psychological. You can test yourself to see if you are actually getting swept away in very subtle streams of thought by counting to yourself when going to bed "1: I'm dreaming. Two, I'm dreaming. Three, I'm dreaming". As you go deeper into a state of trance and your consciousness starts to transfer to other parts of your being, these streams start becoming perceptually real (hypnagogic) and can quite easily suck you into them. Unless you have excellent shadow memory and present moment lucidity, for all intents and purposes you "fell asleep".
Give the counting technique 100% and you will absolutely learn about how and why you fall asleep. You might find yourself "daydreaming" of something when suddenly you say "87; I'm dreaming" and find yourself back in your body, a little deeper into trance than before. Have the patience to allow your body to fall asleep, and relax enough so that the streams are allowed to flow. But try your very best to keep counting and realize you ARE dreaming!
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"What am I doing wrong? Its like my mind is two extremes, either FULLY awake or Dead sleep. Why can't I get it in between?"
The trance state is when your body is asleep and your mind is awake i.e. you are aware. We've been trained to use sleep time as a reason to go unconscious and escape, so It's highly possible you are simply habituated in going unconscious everytime you are about to enter trance (when your body is falling asleep). You also mentioned your mind wandering and then coming back to what you're doing. If you were aware of your body while this happened, you would find that it has entered a level of trance, your "mind" was simply not present; you were not awake.
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