LukeSid

It looks like I've solved that problem.I used to strongly will myself to wake up...now I'm more softly-softly. I visualise the end of a dream and the SP switching-off, just leaving the slight muscle tremors and what I call “twitchy” eyeballs

“Then I will wake, not move, not turn over, keep my eyes shut and remember the dream” …and it seems to work well. But for a couple of glitches I might have hit the end of every dream period last night (one thing I've learnt is the dream-business is full of glitches)

01.15 am (surprisingly early for the first period) I probably went off at aprox 12.10 am so the dream must have been in the NREM period (my earliest logged time before this was 01.40 am) It was definitely a very clear dream because I remember the full details.

04.15 am woke, remembered the dream and sat up to write it down…and found an entry marked “2.05 am Dream sign???”. I think I sat up to record the dream and somehow lost it and lay down again to remember…and fell asleep. I won’t do that again.

Then I hit a wall…I couldn't get back to sleep properly. I lay there till nearly 6.00am then got up for an hour to WBTB and also had a small coffee. I went off again fairly easily.

I woke up and remembered a dream and tried using TAGS again and it worked…except I've forgotten the time (I'm not good with remembering figures) I need to perhaps visualize a clock face Then I hit my main “wall” leg-pains, after a few hours in bed. I think I need to WBTB again…just to get the circulation going again

So...4 good wake-ups…and close to the dreams themselves, because I felt the after-effects in each case. But the usual problem with missed dream signs…particularly the 01.15 dream. Now I seemed to have mastered the “wake-up” instruction I can now see that dreams can be in NREM periods…and I think I'll try and “visualise” myself into recognizing dream signs.