Thread: (N)REM barriers - the reason of not achieving lucidity

NREM barriers also explains WILDs with the small gap on the beggining of lucid dreaming which are actually DILDs with small NREM barrier.

I believe you're talking about what I call "start-of-dream DILDs". They usually happen when trying to WILD for me, and are characterized by becoming lucid while the dream forms, but have a sense of discontinuity of consciousness, and sometimes you start out not sure what you're looking at or how you got there.

If your general theory were true, we'd get lucid a lot more in the later morning, which I think is in fact in general true. But I don't always get lucid in the late morning dozing period.

What what about those talented long-time LDers who get lucid in their early sleep cycles? Do they have shorter NREM or do they just have such a developed sense of awareness that the NREM barrier is no barrier for them?