I became Lucid Last night with taking small naps... |
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As we all know, when you sleep at night, the longer you've been sleeping, the longer the REM periods will be within the 90 minute cycles. But how do sleep cycles look during an afternoon nap? Is it REM-intensive, or is it more like the first few hours of regular, nighttime sleep? Are there any ways of setting up an afternoon nap to maximize potential for dreaming? |
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I became Lucid Last night with taking small naps... |
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Afternoon naps are indeed REM-intensive you can immediately move from waking to lucidity (WILD). Yesterday I had a nap and in no time I was lucid. I know that because I went to bed in 2 pm after being awake for 7 hours and just 20 mins after, I woke up from a LD. |
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Really? hmmm... so, what DOES determine what our sleep cycle will look like when we go to sleep? For instance, if you're up late working on something, and you take a power nap... you're going to bed, and it's about bedtime, so I guess it would be like... the boring sleep cycle hehe. Is it determined by how tired you are (how badly you need sleep), or more based on your "inner night/day biological clock"? (if I had to guess, it would be the latter) |
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I also have the belief that with enough mental training, LD's are possible at the onset of sleep at night. I've also found for naps it doesn't matter.. sometimes you have a light REM-intensive nap.. and other times you drop into a nice delta non-REM sleep. It varies on the day.. you'll be more likely to get REM-intensive closer to morning (like 1PM, but if you try for 5-6PM you'll most likely just hit deep sleep). |
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Just keep moving…
during most afternoon naps,and morning naps(where i wake up but doze back off) is when i suffer from some badddd sleep paralysis....in the mornings if i wake up and drift back off to attempt a wild or just to get more sleep,4 out of 5 times ill have SP when i wake up...i hate SP...but yea i need to try more WILDs since i do nap a lot.. |
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Lucid dreaming > you
mwahaha
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All of us go down slow and then we rise again
just like a tide out at sea we lower and rise again
Yep Kramari is right the transistion from Waking into WILD is always more effective during the mid afternoon hours during nap sessions.. I've acheived most of my WILDs during afternoon hours. Lucidity seems to be hightened at this time of day also. |
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How do you guys manage to get to sleep though? I'm never tired during the afternoon... At least, not "I'm sleepy, I think I'll try a WILD" tired. Do you actually re-arrange your night sleep schedule to have less sleep and be more likely to take an afternoon nap or something? I find that even if I feel really tired, once I get to a certain level of relaxation, I just lie there. I'm sure it's an optimal state to be in for meditation, since you can focus and not doze off, but doesn't seem ripe for WILDage. |
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