I wake up after each REM

**Mariano** · 05-04-2010 04:46 PM

HI!
One night I said, "I'm going to wake up at 3.00 AM".
Of course that night, I woke up at exactly 3.00 AM! man, I was so happy.
So I tried that thing the next night, but with a different hour.
It didn't worked as I expected, because I woke up 3 times in the night at different hours.
And for some reason...It doesn't matter if I said it or not, if I want it or not...I kept waking up 3-4 times every night. But what's interesting is that it seems that I always wake up after each of my REM cycles.
so, you tell me, how can I use this to my advantage? thanks!!

**Max ツ** · 05-04-2010 05:31 PM

Yes that happens, but we are not able to remember it in the morning if we go right back to sleep. If you wake up very often, like me, i would recommend either DEILD or maybe FILD if dont mind false awakenings.

**hgld1234** · 05-04-2010 07:27 PM

I find I wake up after I tell myself I wake up

. Then I try to wild or fild, or I just go back to sleep and have a cool vivid (and sometimes lucid

) dream. If you wake up in the middle of the night, try wild (good if u can do it) fild (good if FAs are ok) or DELID (good if you know when you're exiting the dream). Or you could MILD before going back to sleep

.

**Clyde Machine** · 05-04-2010 11:08 PM

Well, generally speaking everyone wakes up after each REM phase, because you usually do a sleep position shift before and after each REM phase, and wake up for a very short time before going back to sleep. To use this to your advantage, I imagine you'd find great benefit out of using the DEILD method to chain lucids together, and to get lucid easily when coming out of other dreams.