Thread: Early Morning Dreams

Well, I haven't had quite the experience you describe there, but I know that when I'm asleep in the morning (meaning anytime between midnight and noon) I tend to have better dream recall and more vivid dreams. If you were having false awakenings and a bunch of easily recalled dreams, then I'd say sleep in the mornings is what'll work for you if you're looking to get back into lucid dreaming. Good luck!

And yes, we do sometimes do bad things in our dreams. Sometimes.

So I wake up earlier than I normally to do some homework but I was way too tired and just decided to fall back asleep (~6 AM).

The same thing happened again (Only this time the dreams were actually interesting, not disturbing).

Waking up about an hour later I felt like I had an hours worth of easily recalled dreams. They included things such as fighting a group of people and winning (Throwing a real punch too; not some half-ass, wimpy tap on the cheek. I've never been able to do that), run for my life from a rock slide, play a few old games I haven't touched in years, meeting someone new, waking up, and having something explode in my hands, pretty much killing me. That was something different...

I even managed to become lucid during the false-awakening I had, only it didn't last long at all due to no other dream-scape forming when I fell through my bed. Or maybe I was just too excited when I remembered wth I wanted to do. Oh well, it's a start.

Something about waking up, even for just a second, relatively early in the mornings seems to trigger these dreams for me. Sleeping straight through the nights doesn't seem to do it. I guess now I'll have to wake up earlier and earlier until I find the start of that REM cycle so I can use it to WILD.

Yes, my dreams are more easily recalled on nights where I don't sleep soundly through the night and into the morning. My sleeping has to come in segments for me to have good recall, and subsequently have a chance of having a lucid dream. I recommend doing whatever you can to segment your sleep time, while matching it up with your regular sleep cycle so you're not depriving yourself of sleep.
EDIT: Here's a sleep cycle graph you can use. I have a printed copy to better plan when I WBTB for WILDing.

Clyde's right.

If I wake up early one school morning and decide I'm not feeling well, I'll fall back asleep about 30 minutes later. From here, I always have vivid (and sometimes lucid) dreams that outstand the others I had overnight. Very incredible, to say the least.

I usually wake up half an hour to an hour before my alarm goes off for some reason (dont ask me why, my internal clock is all messed up) and when i do this, sometimes i have a dream in that small period of time up until my alarm. The dreams feel like they go on for ages, yet its only 20 minutes or so.