REM Rebound

[KidDreamer]

So, i want to create a REM rebound effect but I dont want to do it by drinking alcohol/taking drugs is there other ways of creating REM rebound effects?

[pixiedust]

Just don't sleep for a while - carve off a few hours every night, or do it by pulling an all nighter. If I haven't gotten enough sleep, when i do fall asleep I always start dreaming almost right away, and dream a lot.

[GestaltAlteration]

pixiedust is right. The downside is that the time loosing sleep can be bad for you after a time. Basically as far as I understand it the loss of REM sleep and increase of delta sleep will cause your body to have extra REM later on. The opposite can happen. If somehow you have too much REM your body will force more delta sleep during the night.

[SKA]

I've allways found that pulling a night through works fine. I'm quite an Insomniac in periods so I have plenty of experience with that. The more Jittery I am when sleepdeprived the more vivid I dream when I eventually DO go to sleep. It could also be so that when you do fall asleep you sleep very deeply. Just put your alarmclock 3 times; 1 to go off after about 5 hours of sleep, set the next one 1 hour later if you're VERY tired/drowsy and feel likely to fall asleep unconscious very fast or 2 hours later if you feel quite awake, then set the next one yet another hour or 2 later. Setting the 2nd and 3d alarm everytime you awake from the last alarm. This seems like a trick to try myself. Thanks. Good topic.

[KidDreamer]

Good suggestions ill try them out sometime anybody else have any others?

[mfratt]

A few weeks ago, I went three nights in a row with pretty much no REM sleep. Night 1, I only got about 4 hours of sleep, night 2, I was pretty much passed out drunk, and night 3 was an all nighter. Needless to say, night 4 I had some craaaaazy vivid dreams. But yea if you don't want to drink or anything, just pull an all nighter and you should have some pretty good dreams the next night.