Out of Schedule Sleeping

I have only had 10 LDs...I haven't hadn't had one in a long time...mainly because I had my exams and was fairly stressed. Now my exams have finished, I've started to loosen up and I've realised that I seem to get most of my LDs when I sleep at a time i normally wouldn't sleep at.

I have a pretty bad sleeping clock tbh, I got ot bed around 3-4 AM and wake up around 11AM-12PM

After a hard day however, I occasionally fall asleep on the sofa half way through the day (well, half way throgh MY day...maybe around 8PM)

this is when I find myself having easier LDs.


Anyone think there could be anything to this?

That is very possible, my record of 3 lucid dream in one sleep cycle occurred when i went to sleep 07:20, i went up 16:50.

It's a pretty odd time to go to sleep... but not for me, i might have Delayed sleep-phase syndrome or Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome.
I have a hard time maintaining a normal sleep cycle for very long, i turn nocturnal for about 1-2 weeks a month, sometimes i can maintain a normal sleep cycle for a longer time though(2 months or less).

I guess i'm not qualified to answer the question, cause i'm out of schedule all the time.

hmm, that's pretty interesting. I've never heard of it before. The worst I get is insomnia, (the main reason i keep myself up until around 4am is to tire myself out before sleeping)

but it does seem like you had a similar experience, as when you had 3 LDs in one cycle, it was a different sleep schedule, even if you normally are out of schedule, i guess because that could be called "normal" I guess it really was out of schedule.

yeah my sleeping clock is also seriously messed up ( terrible Insomniac I am lately ); 3/4 o'clock I fall asleep and awake round 10/11 in the morning. This on the long term resulted in my Dream Recall being reduced to 0 dreams a night.

So I've been trying to return my sleeping clock to normal and to be well rested to regain dream recall and Lucidity.
Well this one day I went to bed waaaay early. must have fallen asleep 21:00 that evening and I woke up next morning quite early with the FIRST memory of a dream in MONTHS. So being well rested and going to bed before midnight really improves my dream recall and ability to become lucid. I know I'm on the right track again.

So my advice to those who have seemed to have decreased or lost dreamrecall: Have a good, long healthy sleep and go to bed before midnight.
Waking up in the middle of the night is also supposed to potentiate lucidity in dreams.
I tried it last night setting my clock 5 hours after I had gone to sleep. I awoke briefly, took a vitamin B6 and went back to sleep again immidiately. However I have no dreamrecall, just pieces and shreds of my dreams too short and brief to remember any scenes or actions from my dream.

So first I'm gunna try to get myself in a normal healthy sleeping schedual again, cuz from my experience a sleep schedual too messed up will whipe out my dream call.

hmm, your sleep clock is basically the same as mine. I have to admit though, I do remember a lot of my dreams in this "schedule". However, I will have to get my sleeping clock back to normal anyway in preperation for college. I think I find it so much easier to recall dreams now I have left school though, it's like the stress of school was stopping me from relaxing enbough to have good dream recall / attaining lucidity. I guess that stress causes problems in many aspects of life.

I just think that sleeping at an odd time seems to increase lucidity, say someone with a normal sleep clock, goes to bed at around 11PM, wakes up around 7 or 8 AM every night. But this person, one day would sleep at 12PM, just a nap. This out of schedule sleep is what I think helps a lot. The problem is, doing it often, it becomes part of the schedule lol, and no longer can really be classed as "out of schedule" sleeping.

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Originally posted by Kenomica
hmm, your sleep clock is basically the same as mine. I have to admit though, I do remember a lot of my dreams in this "schedule". However, I will have to get my sleeping clock back to normal anyway in preperation for college. *I think I find it so much easier to recall dreams now I have left school though, it's like the stress of school was stopping me from relaxing enbough to have good dream recall / attaining lucidity. I guess that stress causes problems in many aspects of life.

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Yeah well that's true. School is an external impulse of information that keeps your thoughts busy. I have always had many dreams where I was at school. But now I dropped out of College and I've spent last schoolyear home with an endless sea of spare time. At first that really relieved me of alot of thoughts in my head and led to lucidity some months afterwards.

But now that I'm home for over a year ( I'm going to try and access Art College in 2007 ) I find that it's no good for my Lucidity and dream recall.

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Originally posted by Warlock
I have a hard time maintaining a normal sleep cycle for very long, i turn nocturnal for about 1-2 weeks a month, sometimes i can maintain a normal sleep cycle for a longer time though(2 months or less).

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I have exactly the same problem... over the course of a few weeks my bedtime gets later and later until I'm completely nocturnal and then I have to stay awake all night and all day to reset my body clock. I hope I never end up in a 9 to 5 job, that would be the death of me... :(

Kenomica: you mentioned that you often fall asleep on the sofa, maybe that could be what's triggering the LDs? Sleeping in a different place or position can make your sleep much lighter, and so your mind might be in a more conscious state whilst your dreaming. I've tried switching to the other end of the bed and this has helped me have a couple of LDs. Also, I think if you're falling asleep during the day, you're more likely to go straight into REM, so that could be another reason why you find yourself having LDs during these naps...

:)