Thread: lack of sleep

with my busy busy high school life, i'm usually never able to get more than 6 or 7 hours of sleep each night during the week. i'm familiar with the stages of sleep, and i know that this amount of sleep isn't really ideal, so does anyone know of a successful way to lucid dream on such a poor sleep schedule?

During the week when I could only get about 6 hours of sleep a night, I would just wait and try the wbtb/WILD method on Fridays and Saturdays nights when I could sleep later the next morning.

I guess if you put enough determination and wont give up you will be able to do it. You will definitely need some time to adapt and practice during the weekends...

You can also rely on dreamsigns and DILDs, they can come anytime regardless of your sleep scheddule

If you have problems with recall, check if you are taking vitamins, they help you with recall...

A lot of it is about your own beliefs - if you will believe you wont be able to LD on tight scheddule, you wont , same for the countrary.

Originally posted by jackonaut
with my busy busy high school life, i'm usually never able to get more than 6 or 7 hours of sleep each night during the week. i'm familiar with the stages of sleep, and i know that this amount of sleep isn't really ideal, so does anyone know of a successful way to lucid dream on such a poor sleep schedule?

You will have your whole life to lay around and dream. But now, in the next ten years, it will up to you to decide whether the rest of your life is spent with a Six Figure Salary or eating out of dumpsters. Forget dreaming for the meanwhile. Ace your studies and nail those College Entrance Exams, and then study diligently for 4 years and get a 4.0 GPA and then go to an Ivy League Graduate Program. Then, when you are sitting comfortably in a $200,000 a year job, you may then contemplate putting all of your priority time into sleeping.

But I was once a student. Big Dreams will still get through on the sleep schedule you describe. Remember that Big Dreams are the ends of a Creative Process that have to come from somewhere. One cannot expect important life-transforming Dreams of Epiphany and Apotheosis every night of the week. If you have 2 or 3 important dreams a year, that should be quite enough for now.

Originally posted by jackonaut
with my busy busy high school life, i'm usually never able to get more than 6 or 7 hours of sleep each night during the week. i'm familiar with the stages of sleep, and i know that this amount of sleep isn't really ideal, so does anyone know of a successful way to lucid dream on such a poor sleep schedule?

I've got that same problem, but I'll soon be graduating and summer will be upon us.. Can't wait.

Originally posted by green1152


I've got that same problem, but I'll soon be graduating and summer will be upon us.. Can't wait.

amen.

Have you guys been reading Aquanina's journal and postings. She has many time contraints but has learned to be a devilish napper. Apparently a good nap simply jumps around the whole REM cycle mechanism, and she is able to get directly to Dreaming.

I'm an old person and so I take old person naps. No big dreams in my short afternoon naps, but I do believe that it allows for more REM Sleep at night, since so much really deep recuperative sleep is not so very necessary, since I had taken some naps.

Typically men can nap easier than women, but Aquanina has proven that even a woman can be an olympic class napper. However busy you are during the day, a few cat naps now and then can surely be fit in, if only to close your eyes and lay your head on your arms for a minute or two.

I am 14 years old and i am getting about 5 hours sleep a night ........ anyone got any suggestions?

heh, during my exams i achieved a less extreme form of the Uberman sleep cycle and was sleeping twice a day.. actually enough where i NEEDED to sleep twice a day. They were only about 3 hour sleeps each, and both had REM activity. I swung over to this when i decided one night it would be fun to drink 4 pots of coffee and a liter of iced tea, then do a paper and take an exam. Well i did awesome on both those things.. stayed up until about 1AM the night after. After this I began sleeping twice in a day.

I've since broken outta the cycle.. just in this past 2-3 days. I wanna leave a warning though for anyone who tries this. Don't drink so much caffiene, I ended up gettin a stomach ulcar and it sucks.