Thread: Problem with WBTB sleeping

Congrats on your first lucid Ondrapp.

With WBTB I would say experiment with times as much as possible. My biggest rules are, if you go to sleep in like 1 second after hitting the pillow, you should stay up longer. If you can't get back to sleep, you should stay up shorter.

Also! Micro WBTB! It is a great thing to do, wake up a few times through the night, place a few tags if you wish and then just go back to sleep. Take like a minute or so to do whatever tech you do before bed and then fall back to sleep. This will increase general dream awareness and give you more chances to WILD, so I think it is good for almost every technique. I need to put a tutorial for it up, even though it is relatively simple. It is better to not use an alarm clock because of the effects it has on dream recall and more importantly, your attitude. I am never happy when I hear an alarm.

Will it effect my LD training?

Personally I would recommend 8 hours of sleep every night when trying to achieve lucidity, it is great for every aspect of it. Less sleep = less awareness. DILD is gaining awareness during a dream, WILD is never losing it, so awareness is always good.

BUT! I would recommend writing in your DJ what you are doing differently each night so you can see how it effects you. Some things might effect you less than they effect me. So sleeping 3 hours might result in 2 dreams remembered for you when I would barely remember any, so it might not be an issue, so worth the try once or twice. Everyone is different, but what is minus for one person is normally minus for another. For me it might be -100 though when it is only -1 for you, the same for pluses. So write everything down so you can know what makes you lucid. This will give you the tools you need to LD. Good luck I wish the best for you.