I want to improve my bedtime routine for optimum lucidity, so I'm interested to know what works for you. What's your bedtime routine? :)
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I want to improve my bedtime routine for optimum lucidity, so I'm interested to know what works for you. What's your bedtime routine? :)
Mine:
23:45 Go to sleep so I will be asleep at 00:00
04:45 Wake up and try FILD
06:30 Wake up and try MILD
Then when I finally wake up I try DEILD
No succes yet...
Here's mine:
Maybe read a book
Set alarm for 4 1/2 hours after when I think I'll fall asleep
Turn my light off
Lie still on my back (as if to do WILD, but that's not what I'm doing)
^doing 1 to 3 minutes gets me really ready to sleep
Roll onto side and instantly fall asleep
Wake up to aforementioned alarm and try FILD or WILD
My routine:
Sleep at 23:30
Natural wake up at 02:40
Natural wake up at 05:40
Natural wake up at 07:30
Natural and final wake up at 10:30
Tons of opportunities for WBTB. :)
For me it is:
Before bed:
Check my Dream goals.
Meditate
Prepare my DJ
Lay still in bed
Tell myself out loud that I will have fun dreams, that I will wake up after each dreams and that I will be aware of my dreams.
Visualize my dream goals
Sleep
Then with every time I naturally awake:
Lay still and remember my dream
Fill in my list of questions about the dream and write down some tags
Make sure I am awake enough
Attempt WILD
If it takes to long, go to sleep believing I will DILD
That's about it. I am really bad at WILDing still though.
Wow, 15 minutes to fall asleep!? I usually need 1,5 hours just to get sleepy and that is me going to bed at midnight having been awake for whole day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martijn0162
Yeah, I need an avarage of 15 minutes to fall asleep, I go to bed at like 23:30, relax a bit, and 'go to sleep' at 23:45 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by LDman
Well, I don't have a really elaborate bedtime routine. Normally, I just prepare my DJ and lay in bed until I fall asleep, maybe thinking about lucid dreaming. I then naturally wake up between 4 and 5 am, depending on the time I go to sleep, and I take a while to write down the previous dreams, go to the toilet and do a WBTB. Then, I wake up naturally again before 7 am, but this time I don't spend so much time awake. From then on, it's all morning naps for a couple of hours. I find getting up in the early hours of the morning to be the easiest way for me to get a lucid now and then.
most common:
- make a "pre-bedtime" voice DJ entry
- put my feet up and relax, release tension
- set intention for dream content, dream recall, lucid dreaming
- make a "bedtime" voice DJ entry
- put in earplugs, put on sleep mask, maybe renee
- pinch of hot sauce and full glass of water
- lay in bed with lights off
- meditate for ten to fifteen minutes, fully relaxed and feeling free-flowing energy
- keeping eyes closed and in deep relaxation, imagine myself becoming lucid
- tell myself what I will try to do in tonights lucid
- wake from meditation and push lucid dreaming from my mind completely, sleep.
There's supposed to be a bedtime routine???
Seriously, though, I never had a bedtime routine myself; I figure if I'm not ready to dream long before bedtime, there isn't much point in starting right when I fall asleep.
Of course I say that as I sit here watching old movies while I stay up till about 3am so I'm at just the right spot in my sleep cycle when I do my WILD dive at 8 tomorrow...just like I do every Tuesday night... hmm, maybe there is some routine thing going on after all...
'Kay, sageous, i thought i was the only one who did this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sageous
Fix my pillows and get excited by the fact that I am practising.
Set my intent to become aware of my dreams.
Relax and observe the mind and the process of relaxation and enjoy the moment. :meditate:
I lie down in bed and then go to sleep. :p
Then when I wake up in the morning, I get up and walk around a bit while my brain throws all last night's dreams at me.
...sorry, I'm kind of boring I guess :(