Hello, I'm a pretty avid lucid dreamer on these forums and have been doing a little bit of experimenting lately. For a while I could not have a lucid dream for the life of me! (I'm very fluent with the WILD technique) but for some reason weather it was what I had going on in my life at the time, I could not attain a lucid dream which was sending me into a downward spiral.

During this LD dry spell I needed to find a better way to get over it. Sleep deprivation helped me overcome this issue. (I do not recommend using this technique long term as it will have adverse health effects) Now it was not full on sleep deprivation as in hours and hours of no sleep till the point I couldn't even operate my car, just waking up earlier than usual.

The first night I went to bed around midnight and woke up around 5. Immediately got up and began my daily tasks and whatnot. At around 3:30 in the afternoon I decided to take a nap. I found that in depriving myself of the usual 8 hours of sleep I typically get and reducing it to 5 I cut my REM sleep periods short. I was extremely tired and dying to lay down in my bed for a nap.

In turn, I fell into my REM sleep much faster than usual and before I knew it I found myself in a dream. It happened so fast I don't know if I can even call it a WILD.

Basically, the technique here is simple. Only to be used if you are having an LD dry spell and need a kick start. Once I had a few LDs by doing this I was right back on schedule having as many as I used to.

1. Deprive yourself of a few hours of sleep that you normally get (between 3-4)
2. Go on with the day, let the tiredness sink in.
3. Get in a comfortable, quiet, dark environment and get ready to take a nap.
4. Take advantage of the speed in which the REM period approaches with whatever induction technique works for you (DILD, WILD, MILD, etc.)
5. Enjoy!

I hope this works for some of you the way it did for me!