Thread: Prerequisites for WBTB

Hello

I have recently just gotten a lot of freetime and I was trying to get back into lucid dreaming, except I've been having some problems with my dream recall, my dreams were just fragments and for some reason they were all very dark or at night. I then realized what I was forgetting to do, the wake back to bed technique that helps improve my dream recall by an insane amount. But for the past few nights it still has not helped me, and some nights I would get up 4 hours later and I would not be able to go back to sleep. Part of the reason why is because I had the thermostat on too high and I needed to put on some air conditioning so I could go back to sleep. For example today I went to sleep at midnight and got up at 4:30, I could not go back to sleep so I made breakfast and played some video games, and I went back to sleep at 9 and I got up at 3:30. I do not even know how much my sleeping schedule is messed up but thats just when I naturally went to bed and got up.

So I just realized what I did for WBTB before that I have not been doing. Your body has to be used to going to bed at midnight and getting up at 8 am, or any other specific time that your body can get used to. After that, WBTB can work. I just realized I had been trying to do WBTB before I regulated my sleeping schedule which does not work if your sleeping times are not in a routine.

Hope this helps someone, thanks.