Sleep with your sheets off and in the middle of the night when it gets cold, you'll wake up and the put the sheets back on. You will then go very quickly into rem sleep and have a very vivid dream.
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Sleep with your sheets off and in the middle of the night when it gets cold, you'll wake up and the put the sheets back on. You will then go very quickly into rem sleep and have a very vivid dream.
that would make sense, if i didnt live in nevada. =/
It's usually already freezing in my room (no heater) so I don't know if I can get to sleep without my doona but I'll try this tonight.
if its warm enough for me to fall asleep this way then i wont wake up :(
That would work if there was some machine that would pull my sheets off the bed in the middle of the night! But there isn't... And I think I'd get a cold pretty soon if I tried this...
I may try it like once in the Autumn, though!
Just have it so the bottom half of the quilt is off the bed but the top half is on you and the movement of your body will push it off. Seriously, I have had 4 dreams in a row using this.
LOL that's funny! I woke up at 2 something (I think it was right after my REM period ended) and there were no covers on my bed. I was cold even though it was summer (I've heard your body temperature drops when you sleep) so I had to get up and get them. I think this might have been when I tried MILD, but I'm not sure. But that IS a very good idea, especially to use with other techniques! It's like a special kind of alarm clock!
Hmm a machine that pulls off your sheets in the middle of the night: That should be doable. Maybe more a sort of Mechanism.
However what exactly is the meaning of this? Cuz I live in Holland and ATM we're having a very tropical summer. Eventhough it's been raining alot the last 2 weeks it's still very warm and moist around here.
So what do you mean to do? Sleep in a relative cold temperature, wake up pull your sheets over yourself and go to sleep in a much warmer temperature?
You could probably do that more regulated and controlled using a adjustable heating. Are you sure that your vivid dream-results weren't incidental?
30 degrees celsius in my room ... it's summer wtf?!
Obviously none of you have air conditioning xD
That would work for me, although I usually wake up anyways in the middle of the night.
If you want to achieve this in the summer, simply sleep with an extra blanket or two.
I'm pretty sure it would be hard for most people to go to bed in the summer with extra blankets.Quote:
Originally Posted by naikou
Turns out this only works in single beds... I guess you could use an alarm clock or something. You just need to wake up but not be really awake so you can go back to sleep really easily.
THAT my friend, is called a WBTB.
Yeah thats WBTB and usually has a high success rate and lucky me I have been doing what you suggested for a while now except I sleep with a blanket that has thousands of holes in it (Not like a ghetto blanket thats just how it's made breather holes if you will) so at night when the AC kicks in I start to freeze and get under the sheets with that blanket on top and BAM LD's it is a very good suggestion I do it myself and works very well.Quote:
Originally Posted by NightmareOnElmStreet
How long do yoiu stay up when you WBTB? I've stayed up for about an hour, and that almost worked, but that's not my point so nvm. How long do you usually stay up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandon Heat
Well most people say 60-90 minutes, some people say 30 minutes, some people say enough to turn your alarm clock off and get back in bed, some say don't get out of bed just stay still and then go back to sleep.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindsey609
I have had success with all of the above, but if when you wake up you don't move or open your eyes and just fall back asleep that In My Opinion has the highest success rate for bringing about another dream.
If you stay up for a while you may be to awake to try and go back to sleep. So what works best for me is the shorter I remain awake the higher the chance of bringing about another dream is.
Very Interesting. I'll try that tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fordy
Don't move or open your eyes - I think that's called DEILD, dream exit induced lucid dream. Too bad I can't use that with an alarm clock... I never can wake up without it. And its hard to turn of an alarm without moving...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandon Heat
I dun get it, are these lucids you are having, or just regular, vivid dreams? Because other than the title you are suggesting that you just have regular vivid dreams by doing this.
If you are talking about when you wake up in the middle of the night, then around 30 seconds for me. I just pull my quilt up and lay down.Quote:
Originally Posted by lindsey609
It's not WBTB, it's DEILD. You have to FULLY get up in WBTB.Quote:
Originally Posted by NightmareOnElmStreet
Well it's not really set in stone that you have to get up think about the words used for the acronym.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaderem X
WAKE BACK TO BED. So you WAKE UP and GO BACK TO BED. The tutorial states that you should be up for 30+ minutes, but it's just guidelines as to what you need to do. If you really want to be technical you could say that WBTB is the same as WILD these are just labels for sets of information no need to take it as law.
I am yet to try this but seems like a good idea, definately promising considering it will trigger a slight awakening to pull the covers back over.
I don't think there's need for such a reaction. There's quite a difference between the two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brandon Heat
Oh sorry did it look like I was yelling? I was just stressing those words. And no there is not "quite a difference between the two." Get with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaderem X
Fordy??? It's Herlihy!!!
You gave me this advice on friday last week, You said that following the method would give "Clear dreams". I liked the sound of that, and tried it that night - to no avail. I tried it again on the weekend - also with no results. I was pretty annoyed that i couldn't get it working, so i roamed the internet for information on "Clear dreams". One search led to another, and eventually i was searching for "Lucid dreaming". I stumbled upon this site. I have read the info on Lucid dreaming and frankly it sounds much better then "clear dreams". I'm trying other methods for attaining Lucidness now, thanks to this site. You're method didn't work for me, but thats because you didn't explain it to me properly. You said to leave the cover for your bed at the end of the bed, or just leave it hanging off slightly. But on your first post you say you shouldn't have a cover at all. Although you seem to go back to your old theory a post later.
My theory on this method: If you have a double/queen size bed, have enough of the covers hanging over the bottem of the bed so that the end of the covers touch the floor. Then all you should do is attach some sort of weight to the covers so that they can only keep slipping off, and not get pulled up.
Alternatively you could just sleep on one side of the bed and have half of the covers over you, with the other half all over the floor. I tried this and the covers fell off alright, but i didn't attain lucidness. (Although i admit i did get a moderately more clear dream after waking up and going back to sleep)
Either way, i'll try this new version of your method, hopefully it gives 100% success. :)
See you at school. ;)
Okay say this is your bed | | Now let X be you and D be your covers.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheIronKnuckle
|D X|
So you are on one side of the bed sort of and your covers are on the other side next to but not on you. Now once you fall alseep you may get cold from the temperature change during the night causing you to wake up. Once you have woken up grab the covers next to you and pull them on top of you so you are warm again and go back to sleep. This is the method he was getting at.
This causes you to wake up cause you are cold pull the covers back on and go back to bed.
actually what i meant was: | dX|DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brandon Heat
the small d is where you only have a little bit of the covers on you and the "D" is where the majority of the covers will be, piled on the floor. In your sleep the covers will fall off, thus making you cold.
Although |D X| would work as well.:)
I was just about to point that out.Quote:
Originally Posted by NightmareOnElmStreet
Yay! Herlihy!
This site just got a lot funnier!
lol, maybe.
And is that a book or something more sinister?
It is indeed something more sinister.
I'll guess stockings up around an animated butt.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheIronKnuckle
Close, but not all the way there.
Hmm but you wouldn't always get the success rate if your covers, wait I forgot what I was going to say.......
Oh right if you don't move in your sleep than your covers might not fall onto the floor is what I was going to say. If you have them already off to begin with you eliminate that problem. But if it works for you go ahead.
Bra it is! *drools*Quote:
Originally Posted by TheIronKnuckle
couldnt u just set an alarm? , is the point of this to encourage yourself to wake up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fordy
It should work even in summer because if you start with the sheets and stuff completely off, your body will cool down in the night and you'll wake up because of the coldness
turn a fan on or somethingQuote:
Originally Posted by TRAHH
I already dont have a problem waking up in bed nightly, so the technique seems redundant in my case. :P
I slept with my fan on high and it got really cold, but I just had a dream about being cold. It was vivid though. But not lucid.
This is just a general comment, not necessarily about this "technique": When it comes to LDing, redundancy can be your best friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by gguru1
Redundancy = positive reinforcement.
man how am I gonna do that if I live in brazil :O
Well, at least I'm not in mexico or the like. If so, keeping the sheets on and wake up sweating would be the way :D
It doesn't neccessarily have to be a cold room, I think. If you're used to sleeping with the covers on, it may help you stay awake by having them off.