What is Suitable Bed Time to LD?

[zxechoo09]

Yesterday I was at cricket all day and was tired as anything when I came home at 6:00pm, I then pretty much had a shower and went to bed at 7:30pm. I then decided to wake up about 2:30am to do an SSILD. No matter how many times I went through the SSILD cycle I did not seem to be sleepy at all. I stopped about at 3:00am doing a reality check to make sure I wasn't having a FA. I then wrote my previous dream in my dream journal and read till about 3:15pm and went back to the SSILD. I gave up at 3:30am and just went to sleep normally. I then woke up at 6:15am to the sound of dogs barking. Sorry for the long post but this is pretty much every night of sleep for me, I usually go to bed at 8:30pm-9:00pm and still do not feel tired whatsoever when I get up in my REM. Then I wake up 5:30am each morning missing out on more REM. So what time would be suitable for me to be able to get to sleep? Thanks

[MilkyDance]

From my own experience I like waking up for WILD around 3:30AM, but I think it's more important to find out after how many sleep cycles you have most success. For me 3 sleep cycles is optimal (my cycles are 105 mins so I do wild after 5h15 mins) because I have more REM time yet I'm still tired enough for the body to fall back asleep. Having a dark room helps. The exact time that I do the WILD didn't affect my success rate much. Cheers, Chris