Sleep Deprivation Method, a Five Point Explanation!
Imagine there was a method, that would allow for nearly one hundred percent lucidity. And then imagine it involved no sleep. ;) Yes, this methods focal point is not sleeping! It can be done by anyone with time to spend, the best being an entire weekend or even longer!
1) WHY IT HAPPENS
Sleep deprivation causes your brain to miss out on REM sleep; the time when your brain has your biggest and best dreams, and the most likely time for lucid dreaming. Your missed out REM sleep while you stay up stacks and stacks until you have heaps and heaps of vivid, long, dreaming time, which means you have nearly four to five times the amount of REM- Three times the lucid likleness.
2) HOW LONG
There is no determined 'perfect' time, the 'perfect' time would be for as long as possible, as it only gives that much more REM time. However, we all have lives, and we simply cannot stay up (And sleep afterwards) for that long. For a normal, highschool age student, begin staying up on Friday, sleep after forty-eight hours, sleep all of Sunday. Of course, with Summer and other breaks, add however long you want. :D
3) HOW
The key to staying up is to keep busy, but at the same time, not so busy to tire you. An easy thing is to watch videos, play games, but an even better thing to do is post on the forums, read about Lucid Dreaming, practice reality checks... Anything that is related to it. Also, try and have friends over, or go find them yourself. You need to stay awake, and falling asleep while you have friends talking to you and playing games is hard.
The wee hours are the hardest to stay up in, but don't get discouraged. Use caffeine- Soda, caffeine pills,- sugar, anything. Do not eat 'modern' foods, I'd stick to bread, cheese, and meat. I've found that when 'good' food settles in your stomach, you get sleepier.
Don't forget to stay as uncomfortable as possible, within reason. Don't lay down, don't close your eyes. Stay in a bad posistion, stay drenched with water, and jump into a cold shower often. Just anything to stay awake.
4) SLEEP TIME
After you've spent your time in hell, time to go to Heaven. Get comfortable, and sleep! You don't really need to do anything before bed, since you've been practcing mainly for a DILD which is VERY likley to happen. You don't really even need to be good at reality checks and the like, I've found that LD's come without concious effort.
However, this is absolutley THE BEST time to do ANY method. MILD is obvious- You'll fall asleep very quickly while chanting the mantra, and the dreams will be vivid. VILDs are the same thing, when you visualize you fall asleep quickly. WILD's are okay to some extent, if you can manage not to fall asleep for the first couple of minutes SP should begin fast and you should enter the dream quickly. If you can wake up (;)) WBTB would be perfect, you'll be able to fall asleep quickly.
5) CONCLUSIONS
This is the perfect method for anyone with time to spend. It takes nearly no skill, but at the same time, if you are an expert it helps induce multiple LD's in one night. I've had seven (Count em'- SEVEN!!) LD's in one night because of this method. Everyone should try it, and if you're a nightcrawler like me who can't get to sleep easily, this is your holy grail!
However, don't forget that there are several bad things... Don't do this if you need to get up early (obviously). You'll be angrier and easily upset, plus you'll be in a drug like state... No driving or anything, so don't hold me responsible :p .
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