Thread: Does going to sleep later prevent lucidity

Originally Posted by Exiled25

Hello everyone, lately ive been going to sleep a lot later then usual, now I don't get any lucid dreams at all.

Usually I would get atleast one every three weeks or so but sometimes I don't even remember any of my dreams from the night before.

So does going to sleep later have anything to do with this?

This is one question I've always wondered. I have a habit of sleeping late(2-3am) but I usually manage the 7-8h of sleep and there are times where I've gotten even 10-11h, but, even in those cases, I can't remember any dreams. It made me wonder whether going to sleep earlier affects your recall and I think it does. My advice is to do a couple more tests, trying to sleep the same time for a couple more weeks and see if you can recall any dreams or have any LDs. If it's still a no, then go back to your normal times and see if anything changes. If you gets your LDs back and can recall your dreams, it means that sleeping later is a bad idea for LDing

It depends. I don't think it matters how long it is, I have gotten lucids on 4 hours of sleep as well as 14. You have to wake up when you have finished your lucid fun, it's the easiest way to remember your dreams.

Thanks for your advice, I guess ill just have to test it

REM could play a factor too....are you not dreaming at all when you go to sleep? or are you having problems getting lucid?

Changes in schedules can effect them too....but like guitarboy said...you can get lucid on practically any amount of sleep.

More sleep = More time to dream. So, yes. Getting less sleep than you should will be highly detrimental to your lucid dreaming.

Originally Posted by no-name

More sleep = More time to dream. So, yes. Getting less sleep than you should will be highly detrimental to your lucid dreaming.

But what if you sleep for 15 hours and have 20 dreams, but sleep through the last one and you can't remember it? I have taken short 45 minute naps and got pretty vivid lucid dreams, because I don't have to remember through the non-REM sleep.

I never go to sleep until about 3:00am and I have no problems lucid dreaming. Of course I sleep-in until 1:00pm or later. (I can sleep 11+ hours a day if I don't force myself to wake up, lol)

doesnt seem to affect some people, but it does affect me.

When i go to sleep late around 2 am, i remember 1 dream if i'm lucky. When i go to sleep at 11, i remember about 3+ dreams.

Try it out