Thread: Sitting posture for inducing Lucid Dreams.

Maybe if you forced yourself to sleep sitting up, in a comfortable chair, LDing might be easier. You'd definitely get a lot more opportunities to exit in a night. It'd take physical discipline but mentally it could be easier.

I'm starting this thread to force myself to try this method at least a few times.

1. I found this on Reddit:

So, I first "discovered" this after I was diagnosed with a detached retina in December. For those unfamiliar, it's a condition where your retina has detached allowing fluid to leak into your eye putting your macula (center of eye) at risk. Since I was due for surgery the following day, I had to sleep sitting up. That night, I had 5 LDs. The first was a DILD, the following were chained together via DEILDs. I took this as a coincidence, but last night I had to sleep elevated again because I had to have my last surgery on my eye (this was to correct a cataract and remove the silicon oil from the first surgery for those who care). I had no lucid dreams, but my dreams were much more vivid than usual. They were also intensely long and deep.
I am more posting this as a beginning exploration. I have to do this method of sleeping for the next few nights, so I plan to report back if my dreams are as vivid or even lucid.

2. There's a thread on this forum called meditation induced lucid dream.

3. Then there's a piece from hyperluciddream.com

4. Discomfort Techniques

Another approach some use is to add artificial levels of discomfort to ones sleep or pre-sleep to prevent drifting off and to allow a part of oneself to stay awake. While I have never used any of these techniques personally, I know many who have used them with success. One way is to take in a very uncomfortable body position while falling asleep. This is best done when you are already tired, otherwise you may not be able to fall asleep at all. The idea is that in an uncomfortable lying or sitting position you remain aware of a body part and take this awareness of "the other side of reality" with you to the sleeping side. Another way is to set your alarm clock several times throughout the night so that you keep bringing yourself back to awareness of your waking-self and your intention to lucid dream. An easier version of this would be to simply set it once about two hours before you normally wake up. After the clock rings, do not go back to sleep immediately but do something that helps your wakefulness, such as a breathing technique or a concentration exercise. Then go back to bed and to sleep. Let go, but this time observe. Observe how you drift back into sleep. Since you already have a good nights sleep behind you it will be easier to have a part of you remain aware and to sink into a lucid dream.

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Seems worth a shot for people who end up falling straight to sleep.

NOTE: Sorry, I'm a new member and can't post links yet.

It seems a few hundred years ago many people slept sitting up for various reasons. From bugs on the floor to superstition about fumes.

Thomas Jefferson slept sitting up as well.

Apparently in Tibet, they sleep in a box to induce Lucid Dreams. Clever buggers, those tibetans.