Sleep Breathing and Lengthy Dreams

**Peranthai** · 07-29-2013 10:08 AM

I Checked A Couple Other Posts and Didn't See This:
So recently after picking up an interest in lucid dreaming again and I was trying some sleep breathing. This is where you imitate your breathing as if you are asleep and it is suppose to put you into sleep paralysis yadayadayada (Yes I'm aware that most people say sleep paralysis doesn't work for lucid dreaming cause you need a condition or something just put that aside for now). Now after I while I get very intense vibrations over my entire body and it feels very odd. However from my experiences I haven't gone from this stage to lucid dreaming.

Except something odd does happen.

Now I know that this isn't coincidental because it has happened on the last 3 occasions I have tried this method. So, after I do my sleep breathing and it fails, I tend to just go to bed and it actually takes a surprisingly short amount of time. The weird part is that each time I have had one very lengthy and very vivid dreams (I tend not to remember my dreams except during WBTB but these were just from going to bed for the first time.

So does sleep breathing actually have anything to do with these long vivid dreams I'm having or is it all just a very convenient coincidence? Also is there any way to use this to attain lucidity in some way?

A response would be appreciated. Also I'm pretty sure this should be here and not in WILD due to it being a sort of different question but if the moderators want to move it there instead w/e XD I was never very good at deciding where forums posts should go.

**essergio2** · 07-29-2013 10:57 AM

First, when do you do that sleep breathing thing, right when you go to sleep or in a WBTB? This is really important, because most dreams happen at the REM sleep, and this type of sleep starts 4-5 hours after you go to sleep, so if you do that right when you go to sleep, you can get sleep paralysis, but I don't think you can get into a LD from there.

And about the long dreams... Maybe doing that helps your recall somehow, I don't know, maybe it's because you get motivated and that helps you remember your dreams better...

EDIT: Where have you found that sleep breathing thing? Do you have a link?

**Peranthai** · 07-29-2013 11:50 AM

I don't have a link, however, I do know that I found it on some lucidology site or something like that. I can't find it again though. Also I do it right when going to bed, not after doing WBTB, might be an interesting experiment though to try that. Also I don't think it's just motivation. I've been very into lucid dreaming before, hence the 43 dream journal entries XD, and I almost never dreamed when I had just gone to bed. I had to WBTB in order to remember most of my dreams. With this though I'm dreaming after just going to bed for the night (After the sleep breathing of course).

**essergio2** · 07-29-2013 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by Peranthai

I don't have a link, however, I do know that I found it on some lucidology site or something like that. I can't find it again though. Also I do it right when going to bed, not after doing WBTB, might be an interesting experiment though to try that. Also I don't think it's just motivation. I've been very into lucid dreaming before, hence the 43 dream journal entries XD, and I almost never dreamed when I had just gone to bed. I had to WBTB in order to remember most of my dreams. With this though I'm dreaming after just going to bed for the night (After the sleep breathing of course).

Well, that's really weird

I'm really interested in that sleep breathing thing, I'll have a search on google, to see if I find something