Thread: Daytime Naps

Tim, From all that I have read and heard you are correct.
Even If you get up in the morning for at least a half hour and then go back to bed, the process is easier because your mind has gotten the rest it needs and then can enter REM much faster & easier.

What I would like to know is how to take a napp. I have not been succseful in taking a napp sinci I was a kid.
I have tied ear plugs, making the room pitch black. I just cannot seem to take napps. It is also true that I can't get to sleep very easiliy either. But once I am up, I'm up.
-Anyone have this problem?

Originally posted by Howetzer
Tim, From all that I have read and heard you are correct.
Even If you get up in the morning for at least a half hour and then go back to bed, the process is easier because your mind has gotten the rest it needs and then can enter REM much faster & easier.

What I would like to know is how to take a napp. I have not been succseful in taking a napp sinci I was a kid.
I have tied ear plugs, making the room pitch black. I just cannot seem to take napps. It is also true that I can't get to sleep very easiliy either. But once I am up, I'm up.
-Anyone have this problem?

I do! Can never get a nap, never had a nap (at least i think)

Originally posted by Tim
I have found that it is very easy to go into a lucid dream while taking a nap in the afternoon. Usually, i take a nap in the daytime solely for the purpose of having a lucid dream! This is how it usually goes down. I'll be lying in my bed, starting to fall asleep. I'll open my eyes a little bit and ask myself \"am I dreaming?\" no... im just lying here in bed. A couple minutes later, I'll open my eyes again, and low and behold I'm dreaming! \"Well, that was easy\" I think to myself. Then proceed to fly out my bedroom window for an adventure. I don't why it works so well during the daytime. It seems I don't have to go through all the sleep stages; i can just go straight into a dream. Also, after I wake up from a seemingly long dream, only about a half hour has passed.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Everthing you have said is correct. I do the same all the time and have many lucids.

Is hould have more naps too. I just need practice at having the naps....

Those of you who can't easily take naps... Its simply because you've been in the habit of staying awake during that period for so long, your resistant to it... Simple answer is to schedule a time to take a nap on a regular basis, like at least one day out of your week consistantly. Tell yourself that you will sleep during this time, everytime... Make it a habit.

If you practice, eventually your body will get the idea that it is nap time and it will follow through.

Good-Luck,

-Daniel

P.S. ...its well worth it, Naps preceed several hours of consiousness before a direct REM cycle, which almost garrantees a lucid dream if you fall asleep fast enough. Make sure you take naps well before your normal bed time and no more than 7 hours after your last nights sleep.

It helps to have a boring teacher talking in the background and a nice comfortable desk. HAH! (and they said you cant sleep in college)

Hey, I think you may have discovered a new technique, even if there's no napping involved.

Last night, I woke up at 7 in the morning and proceeded to go back to sleep. While I was going to sleep, I was blinking my eyes open every minute or so to see if I was dreaming. Eventually, I think I went to sleep, but at some point after that, I opened my eyes into a lucid dream/out of body experience type of thing. I immediately knew I was dreaming, but I was in my bed in my house. I got up and left my room. At first, everything was completely black, but I flicked a light switch and I could see. (It's definitely not the sensation you get from a light switch in real life though. I didn't have to squint because the light was too bright.) The LD only lasted about 5-10 minutes, but it was interesting nonetheless.

Originally posted by Tim
It helps to have a boring teacher talking in the background and a nice comfortable desk. HAH! (and they said you cant sleep in college)

I have seriously had lucids during class...it's WEIRD. And then I'm like..."Whoa, so was that the lucid or this [the class]?"

I prefer a 2-3 hour "deep" nap in the afternoon, then going to sleep late at night (1-3AM).. I find this brings very deep LDs on at night.. the kind you can't wake up by accident from.

Ive noticed something similar to that! When I start to fall asleep in class Ill have weird little micro dreams. Like Ill drift off and what the teacher is talking about will turn itself into a little dream story. Its really weird especially in math cuz the dreams get really strange.

I wrote a topic on this somewhere.. yes.. i know all about it.

Yeah i used to have these "microdreams" before sleeping, but not nemore. I also have them in class if im very tired. Eh.....ill never be able to nap cuz stuffs alwayz going on at home, and ppl would ask me whats with me that i need a nap. But maybe ill try napping soon.

A question about napping...

why do you seem to automatically enter a period of REM sleep when it takes hours normally at night?

mintz asked: "A question about napping...

why do you seem to automatically enter a period of REM sleep when it takes hours normally at night?"

I think its because when u take a nap u have already done your other kinds of sleep the night before, so u dont need those kinds of sleep again.

I can start regularly napping in a week anyway, because school resumes. I dont get enough sleep at night anyway (7 hours), so another two hours after school sounds good. (espescially with the whole going soon into REM thing.)

Originally posted by Tim
I have found that it is very easy to go into a lucid dream while taking a nap in the afternoon.

I had my only lucid dream in math class during exam week...

Yes well i suppose I should tell this to my grandfather. He takes so many naps hes bound to of had a lucid dream.
I have one question though do these lucid dreams last very long 8) 8)

I had my first lucid dream while taking a nap the other day, reality check, to bad my shrink says I can't have naps because it won't work with the anti psychotics I am taking, so my parents freak out on me when I nap, I get dead tired around 6PM, and go to bed at 10. But they will be mad if I go to bed before 9, think I will be awake, then somedays I have to wake up at 5:30, other days 6:50. It's horribe I am always tired...naps are great, I can just nap in like 5 minutes after school, and sleep naturally between 1:30-2 hours, sometimes less than 1 hour. Then I wake up, probabbly because I am hungry and we eat dinner around 6-7 so I know it's time to get up But that barely happens anymore, they check on me all the time so I am not using drugs or napping.