well, its because its more of a shock for me.. you see in the summer i do alot of sports and shit, but in the winter, i do almost nothing.. (especially since i'm a linux hacker).
I'm gonna brainstorm a bit:
So if you're already a runner.. probably won't work. But other things i've tried works. Download an album (who buys music nowadays?), don't listen to it until you goto sleep, or listen to it once before you goto sleep. Depending on the album.. i've had about 90% success on this method. (your mind will take the lyrics and come up with something to form around them)
I find however, that if its an album you know well, it won't work.. My theory on that is, you already EXPECT the lyrics to be there, with something new.. your mind tries to figure out what it means, or how it goes. Repetitious music works better also then things like long progressive music with lots of solos and stuff. For instance, the first time I noticed this affect, was when I downloaded Fatboy Slim - Halfway between the gutter and the stars. I listened to it about an hour before i went to sleep, the whole thing. Well sure enough, i had a dream about it.. somewhere on the forums i posted it, it was about the sun exploding, was real creepy, but i was able to trace the lyrics right back to why I had it.
So, in my case, where I went to run is on my property (i have 50 acres), and I hadn't been up there much in a long time, school and stuff keeps you busy. So just the fact of being up there caused it.
Now, I can say FOR SURE, that food didn't affect it, as I ate very different things both times. I find drinking alot of water helps a little, because I had drank about 32 ounces before I went to sleep on all the major nights I had them. Getting to sleep at a reasonable time helps too, if you're mentally tired, forget it. As for vitamins, I had a multivitamin which does have a little B6 in it.. nothing like a suplement though (but i've not been getting much luck on 100mg-500mg, so i stopped on that).
Someone asked my sleeping position. Well, i can LD in any position, but for me to trigger an "easy" WILD like the ones I had during these dream bursts, I MUST be on my back. Though, it doesn't matter whether i'm on my stomach or on my sides during original sleep.
I did tend to go easy the nights I had the bursts, the night I had 8, I was half asleep and awake on the couch for about 2 hours, before I went to sleep at around 11pm. LDs started to hit between 1am-3am range. That kinda throws out the belief that you need 6 hours to get good LDs, because these are not only longer, but almost impossible to wake up from (unless you are forcing yourself to).
Thats about all that comes to mind, feel free to ask more.
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