Thread: FryingMan's DILD course workbook

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Slept eventually afterwards but shocked awake again due to phone/door knocking.

I'll be honest with you my last couple of week's approach of not setting intent to wake in the night and waking in the morning well rested with tons of recall and fairly high awareness moments (potential lucidity) sure seems preferable. But I do need to beat this back to sleep monster, I'm sure it will give me more lucidity opportunities.

1.Ouch! Are you sure the phone/knocking wasn't HH? 2. That would be great, but I hear you! Sleep is crucial too! You can eventually get both.

Originally Posted by KonchogTashi

I have moved middle of the night waking & WBTB to weekends when I have the opportunity for 2 more hours of sleep. During the week I try to sleep through the night and record upon getting up. This seems fine for me. The only drawback is that after sleeping in on Saturday/Sunday the transition back to a 5 a.m.-ish rising is a bit rough on Monday/Tuesday.

This is what I usually do but I started adding some wbtb's during the week when feeling rested and if I get to bed on time. Last night I had a nice DILD without any intentional wbtb (woke up, bathroom, wrote some quick notes for ~20 seconds and had a little more wakefulness than usual).

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Edit: of course it could be my wacky sleep schedule where to-bed times can vary night to night by up to 3 hours. I'm working on getting to bed by 11pm and out of bed by 9am under all circumstances (to allow for 8 hours sleep plus WBTB and slow-to-sleep time)

3 hour variance could definitely play a part. Did you have any insomnia before starting recall and LDing?

Originally Posted by fogelbise

1.Ouch! Are you sure the phone/knocking wasn't HH? 2. That would be great, but I hear you! Sleep is crucial too! You can eventually get both.

I was firmly asleep, and woken from the phone buzzing, and then only barely heard the knocking on the door. Was definitely awake. I do not have auditory hallucinations, I can only recall one or perhaps two times a very quick shout that couldn't have been there. I'm pretty much visuals only with HH/HI.

This is what I usually do but I started adding some wbtb's during the week when feeling rested and if I get to bed on time. Last night I had a nice DILD without any intentional wbtb (woke up, bathroom, wrote some quick notes for ~20 seconds and had a little more wakefulness than usual).

3 hour variance could definitely play a part. Did you have any insomnia before starting recall and LDing?

Sometimes, but infrequently, usually only like the night before something big like a trip or a job interview. I had no problems waking up a lot in the very beginning, journaling, then getting right back to bed. When starting SSILD/MILD in the middle of the night then the back-to-sleep issues started. But I was on vacation in a quiet place in a single bed in a dark room. Ah, can't wait for spring and heading back to my lucid hideout for the spring/summer/fall..

Got to bed before midnight, and got myself up at 9am. Slept perhaps 7-ish hours. Good start. Oh and some interesting recall, but short by my standards, almost lost it but it came in, yay.