I feel sort of unique in this regard: sleeping in does not enhance my recall or vividity at all. If I sleep in beyond the time when I naturally or artificially (alarm clock) wake up, I am guaranteed (I've had several years to verify this) to almost immediately lose all remembrance of my dreams for the entire night. I might have new ones during my sleeping-in period to make up for them, but they are always shallow, fragmented, and evanescent things that I can't remember upon waking. My best recall occurs when I wake up between 7-8 hours of sleep, turn off my alarm clock in the morning, and push myself into enough of a sitting position that I can't inadvertently fall back asleep. From here I close my eyes, keep very still, and assuming I haven't let the worries of the day flood into my head yet my memories come back to me full and detailed. After getting what I can out of that I might lie back down in the position I woke up in to squeeze more recall out of my somatic memory center (body position-associated memory), but only after I've woken up enough to trust myself not to fall back asleep again. I've never had a lucid dream and so can't say if I'm more likely to have them sleeping in, but I suspect if ever I did I'd have a hell of a time making much of them or remembering them at all upon waking. |
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