Thread: 3 weeks or so to dedicate to lucidity - any suggestions?

That's great to have a period of time to dedicate to dreaming. I can't add anything except to do lots of reality checks as well. Maybe a few days of doing them extremely frequently, like every 10-15 minutes or as often as you can.

Let us know how it went when you get back.

Enjoy Australia too!

lots of reality checks, vit b6, and just think about it 24/7

Ah, reality checks, of course! Excellent suggestion, I think i shall add it to my list.

About the B6: it's easily available at vitamin stores? Should I take it at bedtime, or some time before?

Hey hope you have a good time in Australia, its nice here

i dont have any dream advice, but about the internet access thing. Theres a heap of internet cafe's in Australia, pretty much everywhere has them so that shouldnt be a problem.

Haha cheers mate. I'm actually an Aussie, from Perth (Go Eagles etc ). To clarify, I will have some internet access, cause, as you said, internet cafes. Theres one right next to the beach I'll be surfing at, which is nice.

about the b-6, any pharmacy or vitamin store will have it. it comes in a range from 50-100mgs a tablet most of the times. 100mg is the upper limit to the normal dosage you should take per day. take it an hour before you sleep, and with something small to eat. your dreams will become easier to remember and full of more events. b-6 def makes a differance with me, but i can tell that its only slight, its not necessary. Remember not to take too much b-6 as that although its a vitamin, it is possible to overdose. just dont go around munching like 3 or 4 a day and you'll be fine. if at any point you begin to have extrematies that tingle, stop taking the b-6 as this is the sign that your taking too much.

You can also take b-6 before you WILD, and it seems to work even better when combined with melatonin. Though, if you find you fall asleep too easily, I'm not sure if I'd take the melatonin.

B-6 is very cheap and melatonin doesn't cost too much as well.

Good luck!

Thanks for the tips on B6, sprokus and Out of the Blue.

I hate to flip flop, but I am now pretty sure I want to try to also use this time to adapt to a polyphasic sleep schedule. While I have looked upon practicers of Uberman with envy for some time, I have recently discovered the Everyman sleep schedule, which actually fits into my horrible weekdays. If anyone has experience with Everyman or polyphasic sleep in general, any tips or advice would be welcomed.

EDIT: The times I am considering for Everyman are 01:00-04:00 (3 hour core nap), 06:10-06:30, 13:10-13:30, and 19:00 - 19:20. This fits in well with my routine, but leaves only a 2:10 hour gap between 04:00 and 06:10, which is good in terms of being awake at similar times to monophasic sleepers, but may not be beneficial to getting enough sleep. If anyone has experience in this area, can you comment on whether this is viable?

I'm no expert, but from all the literature ive been reading on lucid dreaming, adopting that kind of sleep schedule might not help you to have lucid dreams in any way, I would tend to think it would make it even harder. for me, when I sleep longer and more regularly, I dream much more frequently, however sometimes I have to have a strange sleep schedule like that, and I never have dreams to speak of. I could be wrong though. any one else have any thoughts?

From what I've heard, it seems that it can be benificial to lucid dream induction.

Heres a quote from Placebo, who I believe is highly respected here, which illustrates that point:

Originally Posted by Placebo

Yup. I've been polyphasic for a while (sleeping only in naps, and not more than 23 minutes at a time)
Once you're used to it, virtually all my dreams are lucid and easy to WILD into.

If you have an ipod or a portable CD player it would be good to listen to a lucid dreaming mp3. "The Lucid Truth" is a really good one. Also, i think just reality checks are important. I dont think you'd need internet access to be able to lucid dream if you know enough techniques. Good luck and have fun in australia!

Originally Posted by archdreamer

Haha cheers mate. I'm actually an Aussie, from Perth (Go Eagles etc ). To clarify, I will have some internet access, cause, as you said, internet cafes. Theres one right next to the beach I'll be surfing at, which is nice.

I love australian accents! i'm american, we have boring accents. I wish I could go surfing, i'm so jealous of you! sorry to make a post so off-subject

Americans love anything with an accent.

It's good to be European among American girls.

Originally Posted by 1342576

Americans love anything with an accent.

It's good to be European among American girls.

hehe lucky you :p

Originally Posted by luv2dream

hehe lucky you :p

Originally Posted by 1342576

Americans love anything with an accent.

It's good to be European among American girls.

So you're the ones taking all of our women. :p

Originally Posted by luv2dream

If you have an ipod or a portable CD player it would be good to listen to a lucid dreaming mp3. "The Lucid Truth" is a really good one.

Where can one find an mp3 like this? Would you be willing to upload it?

Originally Posted by surfer144

Where can one find an mp3 like this? Would you be willing to upload it?

a DV member posted it it's in this thread http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=35033

Well, if it makes you feel better, I've been practicing lucid dreaming for 2 years now with no luck. I've come close but every time I notice I wake up.

I've been jotting down my dreams for a long time now, with about 100 entries. I can typically remember 2-3 dream a night.

I quite taking melatonin, on account of the fact that it makes me forget dreams and I'm extra groggy the next morning. However, it does make my dream extremely intense when I can remember them.

Anyway, I think for some people its just more difficult to get results.

Archdreamer, there's a section in this forum on alternative sleep schedules. There's a lot of good information there, you should check it out.