Thread: I'm Inspired But I Can't Sleep Again!

I recently got back into lucid dreaming after getting LaBerge's book last weekend (school takes too much focusing). So I tried to do some things that I think would give a high chance of me going lucid. I was going to try a wild.

1) -read some of the book before I went to bed (9:00)
2) -thought a small bit of dark chocolate would help before too
3) -listened to the remix track and fell asleep to it
4) -woke up at 3:00
5) -had a small bite of dark chocolate again
6) -read the book for an hour
7) -went back to bed and listened to the track (4:00)

While listening, I tried breathing deeply and counting at alternate turns. After a half hour, I got bored and restless so I moved and turned off the track and proceeded to sleep without a tech. After a few minutes, I started thinking weird things and I think HI hit because I saw skulls creeping up and a book flipping pages. My heart began racing and I could tell this was how I was supposed to feel. Then it simply stopped. I wasn't dreaming and I never moved while this was happening.

So what was the problem?
It might have been the chocolate because even a tootsie roll keeps me up in the early hours but not when I first go to sleep. I also felt wide awake when I woke up. My normal sleeping time is 10:00-6:00. I thought since I went to bed an hour earlier, maybe I had a higher chance with that extra hour. I've been trying to get up six hours later so should I wake up even later or just not eat chocolate? And is it bad to listen to the track while wilding?

I'm still not giving up nor being annoyed about it; Christmas break is next week so I'll have plenty of time.

Edit: I did it again this morning except the chocolate and lucid track. I got to the same point three times in a row and just went to sleep. I didn't even remember one dream and it was nearly four hours of extra sleep!

It's just because your body ain't used to the entire thing. The feeling of seeing stuff that is false, the numbness, the feeling of leviation. The excitement plus the unknown aspect, is a cocktail, that your body will react very weird to the first times. Some people get a racing heart, some people just get very aware and looses the entire thing in one second. Some people don't experience anything, and they just go on. Just keep trying. You're close

Try relaxation and HI techniques if you can't get to sleep. Like, the Reverse Blinking and Visualizations, they help.

Yea I've gotten to that point as well and my heart did start racing and I was very excited but tried to remain calm. After that point, which felt so crazy, I just kind of came out of it and could not get to that point again. I was very dissapointed.