Thread: lucid dreaming and napping?

Yes, naps are very successful and personally for me, i am wayy more likely to become lucid if it is during a nap so i can get in my rem cycle right away.

Hmm..I'm not going to lie, I don't know how REM sleep works in naps, but my experiences have been that afternoon/late morning naps can REALLY increase the chance for LD's...I'd say give it a try one day..perhaps on the weekend. I would sleep for a good 7-8 hours and wake, go have a little breakfast and then go back to sleep knowing that you've already increased your chances..It may just work for you

Good luck, and just experiment with that, I'm sure you'll find something that works for you.

Depends on the time of day. I can't seem to REM in the afternoon, unless perhaps I'm really exhuasted or my sleep schedule is screwed up and I didn't sleep in the morning.

If I got up early in the morning and had a nap in the late morning, maybe I could have a lucid if I could get myself to fall asleep again. No guarantees though, of either a lucid or falling asleep again, although the latter is fairly likely if I get up early enough.

Probably the best conditions for lucids, for me, involve getting up, to pee or to do a WBTB, and then going back to bed with maybe 2 hours of normal sleep time left.

THanks everyone, I'm asking this due to my last exam being today and I'm not officially working or doing anything productive with my waking time for the next week so I smell an experiment, I think it would be cool to wake up and not remember anydreams so just take a nap and basically try again. LOL

Thanks again, Ducky.
Happy dreaming

I find that dreaming during naps has a lot to do with your sleep habits. If i sleep for a full 8 hours or more in a night, I will not enter REM during a nap the following day. If I sleep for 5-6 hours, my body seems to want a bit more REM. If I take an afternoon nap (around 3 pm) after a short nights sleep, I will snap instantly into REM. Going directly from waking to REM is what makes WILD easiest.

I always thought the general agreement was that afternoon naps are awesome times to WILD.

Morning naps are obviously great times to dream, but I still consider them part of my night's sleep.

I've found that naps are a great time for me to become lucid, especially if I want to try to WILD.

Seconding the above - afternoon naps are much much better than night-time sleep for me - although I don't think I've ever had a DILD as such while napping, they're always... well, WILD-ish. Sleep-paralysis-induced, I suppose, more specifically. (I get sleep paralysis a lot when I'm falling asleep, even more so if I'm sleeping in the daytime or with the lights on, and I'm quite often able to go from there into lucid dreaming.)

Originally Posted by dreamducky

OK I'm sorry if this has already been asked etc.
Can REM phases occur in short naps? say 20-60 mins?
If so had anyone had any luck with lucid dreaming during naps?
It may be different depending on sleep schedules but I'm biphasic but still try to take naps occasionally.

Thanks again, DUcky

Not particularly related to the subject but can I ask what your biphasic schedule is? I never really understood how you're meant to do it, I'm afraid.

And yes, polyphasic sleepers usually report entering REM during their naps. I guess the body just lets you get there quicker when it knows you've only got 20 minutes...

I had a lucid dream eariler during a short nap, it only lasted 5 minutes but better than nothing

Yes most of my attempts are during naps