Quote Originally Posted by Patjunfa View Post
I'd like to be more creative with my time on Wbtb. If its a clear night I can really enjoy getting a good starscape. When Aaronoscar is not in India, we sometimes meet up on wbtb which is fun. Yet sometimes we still find ourselves wondering what would be a good productive or focused use of time.
Perhaps inspiring each other along the lines of "check that out - that's weird/dreamy/beautiful…if I were dreaming right now, I would..!..let's do an RC or two or three." I think it can also be productive to discuss recent dreams, things that you are trying, practices you found insightful and/or fun.

As you say you enjoy the time what do you find yourself doing? Also do you tend to do after 4 1/2 or 6 hours?
I get out of bed completely and alternate between sitting and standing. I don't think I have ever gone outside, but I see nothing wrong with it if you are able to get back to sleep. I start by journaling the dreams so far and then I like browsing inspiring and beautiful photos on my phone, usually on instagram. I sometimes get sidetracked by political posts on there, sometimes researching if the post is true. The light doesn't seem to negatively affect me either. Sometimes I will look up LD material on my phone as well. It's a nice quiet time to myself.

I do it whenever I wake up naturally, trying to time it with drinking the right amount of water before bed so that I wake closer to 4.5 hours, but if it is closer to 6 hours I'll do it then (skipping any WBTBs if I am not feeling well). If it is much less than 4 hours or so, I just drink more water and go back to sleep. When I started out I would only do it on weekends when I could sleep in, but once I got to a point of getting to bed on time and getting back to sleep easily after WBTB, I began doing WBTB most nights. (I didn't last night as the wife was awake at the same time and she would be complaining to come back to bed.) This would only seem to work for you when you are not meeting up with Aaronoscar for the WBTB...I am guessing you use alarms for those times.