deep sleep thoughts

[rebeccaprophet]

Okay so I try a WILD, I go into deep sleep and I see nothing I am just thinking. Made me realize we are thinking during deep sleep. I was aware that I was asleep but I wasn't dreaming. I couldn't enter into REM sleep for some reason. Maybe exhaustion, I'm an athlete. I train hard during the day and then I spend more time in deep sleep than REM sleep. Gymnastics is important to me, but so is lucid dreaming/having vivid dreams and good dream recall. Any advice?

[Sageous]

I would suggest that you try your WILD's a bit (or a lot) further into your sleep cycle. It seems that you're bumping into a bit of NREM in your WILD attempts, so it might be better to do them later on, when REM periods are very close together. By the same token, I would suggest that you sleep longer, if you aren't doing that already... but still do your WILD as far into your sleep cycle as possible (at least 5 hrs is best), so you can have your lucidity after the repairs from your physical activity have been made. But then again, there's nothing wrong with a exploring a little NREM...

[rebeccaprophet]

I sleep from around 11 pm until around 10 am or 11 am. I used to have lots of vivid dreams waking up and remembering them. Now its just nothing. No dreams.

[Sageous]

hmm. Well, it's probably more the case that you're not remembering your dreams than it is you're not having them... could it be that your mind is a bit to active upon waking, and your dreams are disappearing too quickly? But that should have no effect on your WILD; when did you attempt it?