Can late nights affect lucid dreaming?

[FuzzyPotatoes]

If I go to sleep at like 3am and say wake up at 12pm, will it affect my lucid dreaming? My guess is that it won't as I'm still getting like 8-9 hours sleep? As I'm off school, I normally stay up late and I really don't want to go to bed at like 11..

[Whatsnext]

Sleeping when you don't normally sleep is supposedly good for LDing, but after a while it will stop being "unusual" and you'll lose that effect.

[Laurelindo]

I think that the most important factor is that you don't feel too tired when you go to sleep, because if you do then you will most likely crash and be too tired to pay any real attention to the dreams, much less remember them. In any case, it shouldn't have any major negative effect as long as you don't feel exhausted when you do go to sleep. I am a night-owl myself (it's almost 3 AM over here right now ), so I can relate a lot to the desire to stay up late.

[EGW95]

I was wondering the same thing, I usually get to bed at 12:30-1:30. Maybe going to bed earlier would be better because you can wake up naturally during the night and not have to set an alarm for WILD/WBTB.

[Soulless]

When I stay up really late and sleep until the afternoon, I tend to have my longest and most vivid dreams. But I feel that this is based on a myriad of things that depend on the individual dreamer and thus I can't really provide any advice or recommendations.

[dutchraptor]

Sleeping when you don't normally sleep is supposedly good for LDing, but after a while it will stop being "unusual" and you'll lose that effect. This is only when you happen to do it once of, and it has the disadvantage of throwing your circadian rythm off balance. In theory sleeping consistently is a pivotal factor in ensuring you have regular lucids. Especially for timing WBTB, but even without it, it's useful.

[Midnight01]

I have only had three lucid experiences, last night being my longest and most controlled one. The first two were when i went to bed around 11 PM and got up at 5:30 AM (to go to work, but than i got to the hospital and realized i was off that weekend ). Last night i went to bed at 4 AM and got up at 930 AM, than fell back asleep. I pull late nighters such as you around 3-4 times a week, and feel that my dream vividness is pretty constant unless I attain lucidity. So far, I don't think it affects it that much, but I still consider myself a newbie with it all

[Sensei]

Consistent sleep schedule is a necessity for LDing. Kind of wasting your time if you don't sleep close to the same 7-8 hours a night. You will have to try too hard to LD because of this and eventually quit. Try sleeping the same 8 hours a night for a month and feel the difference. @midnight01 The lucid dreams that you have are not normally effected much by the time you go to bed that night, but the time that you went to bed that last few nights. When going to a bad sleep schedule it takes me 3 or 4 days to stop having lucids. When going to a good sleep schedule it takes 3 or 4 days for me to start having lucids. Exception: staying up all night one night will do 3 or 4 days work for you and your next couple nights will most likely be devoid of lucids. As I said to the OP, just try sleeping around the same 8 hours each night and feel the difference in waking and sleeping. I used to sleep only 4 hours a night and I used to have 1 or 2 dreams a night, and they were good ones. When I started LDing, I changed it to 8 hours of sleep and I suddenly felt like I could think a lot faster and get much more done in a day even though I was missing 4 hours of it.

[Midnight01]

@midnight01 The lucid dreams that you have are not normally effected much by the time you go to bed that night, but the time that you went to bed that last few nights. When going to a bad sleep schedule it takes me 3 or 4 days to stop having lucids. When going to a good sleep schedule it takes 3 or 4 days for me to start having lucids. Exception: staying up all night one night will do 3 or 4 days work for you and your next couple nights will most likely be devoid of lucids. As I said to the OP, just try sleeping around the same 8 hours each night and feel the difference in waking and sleeping. I used to sleep only 4 hours a night and I used to have 1 or 2 dreams a night, and they were good ones. When I started LDing, I changed it to 8 hours of sleep and I suddenly felt like I could think a lot faster and get much more done in a day even though I was missing 4 hours of it.[/QUOTE] I didn't realize that the same specific hours affected it that much. I will have to try all of this out. It is weird because my sleep schedule is different than what it was about 6 months ago, yet my lucid dream the other night was the best one I've had. Than again, it was completely random, i didn't do any specific method. I guess it would make more sense to do what you said. So I will try to experiment with that. Thanks!

[Sensei]

Check out my thread in my signature if you would like to hear more about sleep schedules and things. I think that consistency is the only thing that makes one person have 10 lucids a year and another have 1000. obviously if you are doing it wrong of course consistency doesn't mean squat. I have some methods spelled out and talked about. It isn't really a guide, but my thoughts on the basics of lucid dreaming. I would recommend starting with this thread if you are going to LD consistently: http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...technique.html It is a basic tech that the longer you do it and the more consistent you are, the more LDs you will have and the closer they will get together.

[TwitchLucidity]

Well, I don't know, but don't ever stay up to the point where you get tired and your eyes are heavy. I have done this, and my REM period was so short I only had a couple dreams and all of which I could not remember.