Thread: does sleep have to be sacrificed for best chances?

Originally posted by OmnipotentTitan

btw that reality check stuff that you practice even when you are awake.... thats not for me, i feel like im a bit crazy when i do that.

You'll think different when you had a good lucid dream.

And you don't have to sacrifice sleep time, you just have to keep more time for bed activity. I try to have a gap of 8,5-10 hours between going to sleep and getting out of bed for day activity. That way, you can have short WBTBs, WILDs or wake up to recall dreams.

Yeah, what Yatahaze said is spot on. In fact, sacrificing sleep is going to hurt your chances of lucid dreaming. You need to be well-rested. But to have the best chance, you may need to adjust your sleep schedule a bit. Try going to bed a little earlier, so that you'll have time to wake up in the middle of the night without losing any actual sleeping time.

Hello,

I spoke of this recently, but it's my experience that oversleeping - allowing oneself to sleep through 3 to 5 or more REM cycles can induce LD for those who may find it particularly difficult.

I've been charting the validity of this for my own purposes and what I've concluded is this:

When you manage to stay asleep longer than is necessary for the body to be fully rested, the mind begins to do everything possible to rouse you from your sleep. The result seems to be, that the mind produces increasingly vivid and tactile dreams for the purpose of rousing you from your sleep. In short, its way of saying "Your body is well rested now. So, wake up!"

However, if you remain asleep through this Vivid Cycle, you will find that, for lack of a better term, your dreams will become more bizarre. And, if you are attuned to Dream Signs, you will recognize that your dream(s) have suddenly gone off the scale of the norm. Hence, helping you to become lucid. It's as if you will be saying to yourself "Hey, wait a minute. This is too strange. I must be dreaming."

The challenge is remaining asleep through so many cycles. The good news is, if you keep your sleep environment very consistent through the long cycle, such as making certain that light does not enter the room, noises do not increase, do not place any clock in view, etc...keeping the environment as close to that as it was when you first went to sleep, you will find that if you, for some reason do happen to wake up, you will drift back into (and continue) your ever increasing, late onset, vivid cycles.

Deja

Originally Posted by DejaSoul

Hello,
I spoke of this recently, but it's my experience that oversleeping - allowing oneself to sleep through 3 to 5 or more REM cycles can induce LD for those who may find it particularly difficult.
I've been charting the validity of this for my own purposes and what I've concluded is this:
When you manage to stay asleep longer than is necessary for the body to be fully rested, the mind begins to do everything possible to rouse you from your sleep. The result seems to be, that the mind produces increasingly vivid and tactile dreams for the purpose of rousing you from your sleep. In short, its way of saying "Your body is well rested now. So, wake up!"
However, if you remain asleep through this Vivid Cycle, you will find that, for lack of a better term, your dreams will become more bizarre. And, if you are attuned to Dream Signs, you will recognize that your dream(s) have suddenly gone off the scale of the norm. Hence, helping you to become lucid. It's as if you will be saying to yourself "Hey, wait a minute. This is too strange. I must be dreaming."
The challenge is remaining asleep through so many cycles. The good news is, if you keep your sleep environment very consistent through the long cycle, such as making certain that light does not enter the room, noises do not increase, do not place any clock in view, etc...keeping the environment as close to that as it was when you first went to sleep, you will find that if you, for some reason do happen to wake up, you will drift back into (and continue) your ever increasing, late onset, vivid cycles.
Deja
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