Don't sleep good with AutoSuggestion

[hamdiya]

Hello everyone, I'm really fascinated by the practice of lucid dreaming and i really want to learn how to achieve it. I've read the tutorials on Dreamview's site and one of the first steps is to actually remember your dreams. I found AutoSuggestion to be the easiest, and from personal trial, quite effective. On my first night, i remembered 1 dream (where i usually don't remember any dreams), on my second night 4 dreams :O and on my third night, 3 dreams. There's just one problem, i noticed that when i wake up, i feel quite tired and i stay relatively tired throughout the day. Since then, I've stopped AutoSuggestion and nowadays I feel more energetic. This is how i perform AutoSuggestion, perhaps I'm doing it wrong. I lay in bed in the same position as i would sleep and start telling myself and try to believe it "Tonight, i will vividly remember all of my dreams". What gives? Am i just psychologically believing I'm tired or something like that Thanks PS: Brilliant community here!

[Volcon]

I don't see any reason why that should cause you to become more tired then you normally are, are you getting atleast 8+ hours of sleep per night? The more sleep you get the better your dream recall is and the higher your chance of becoming lucid is. The tiredness may just be placebo, if your on some level expecting it to have a effect, you may have tied tiredness to that and lo-and-behold. So all in all, i think its just psychological, or a lack of sleep.

[lucid4sho]

Its possible it is causing you to sleep too lightly. I don't use autosuggestion, other than just having an emotion of intent. Stick to other techniques for now, if it turns out you need autosuggestion, then try going to bed earlier so you can sleep longer to compensate.