Thread: LD keeping me from waking up in time for class! Everyday! Help!

Hey so, I just discovered this website and started reading about LD and IQ relations, as well as discovering what a WILD is, leading me to realize that WILDs are exactly what I've been experiencing multiple times every morning for the past couple months, preventing me from getting out of bed in time for class.

I have a high IQ, born a math person, though everything I ever encountered was solvable so I took my life a more creative, challenging route. I go to art school (so ya, no math, ever), and for the past year or so I had a job at an ice cream shop, keeping my math skills on point by doing all transactions in my head, (adding up bills, making transactions, calculating change, converting coins into numeric systems, and counting over 2grand every day in 15 minutes). It was a good way to keep my math skills and IQ up. But for the past couple months ive ditched the job for the sake of school work. as expected, my mathmatical abilities have been depleting, as well as my inherent problem solving skills. Though I've discovered a strange parallel:
I started to recognize the relationship between the decrease in my math and problem solving skills and an increase in my lucid dreaming. I have yet to figure out why, but the relation is clearly there.

The past few months, My sleeping habits have gone to shit. All but 2 days out of the week my schedule lets me sleep in until 1, and it's become habitual. On my 9:30 days I set 5 ALARMS! and the same process ensues:
First alarm goes off, I wake up, fully recalling the dream I just had, and shut my eyes for a second, then BAM! whether I was lucid dreaming before or not, I'm right into it. There's no span on unconsciousness or feeling of falling back asleep. I'm awake, 3 seconds later I'm lucid dreaming.
Second alarm goes off, turn it off again, and either I doze off right away again or in my droggy, morning state of mind decide that I want to go back to the lucid dream. BAM, we're back.
This goes on and on, and I'll just keep convincing myself that I can spare the few extra minutes, turn my alarm back a little further just to keep lucid dreaming, then finally go "shit class is in 10 minutes" and hop out of bed. I don't understand why I do it. This has been going on since fall semester started. Once I'm actually awake I can't reason why I had thought that I had a few more minutes to go back to sleep. I've tried making "Dude get the fuck up!" signs around my bed, and I see them in the morning, but they havent worked. It's like my lucid dreams put me into a different mindset even though I'm "awake".

The worst part is, even on weekends and days I don't have class, I'll sleep until 2pm because every time i wake up, for the sake of lucid dreaming I go right back to sleep until someone calls me or one of my roommates wakes me up.

I've had a lot of experience with WILD dreaming in years past, and although I was actually practicing meditation, the process was exactly the same as the tutorials I read on here, ignoring the body's message to move until your body falls asleep and your mind is still awake. I would meditate this way every day for about a year, and off and on for the past 2 and a half years. This must be contributing to my experiences now.

Lucid dreaming is fun, but I need to get in control of when I lucid dream (ironic, right?). This over sleeping is seriously affecting school. Any suggestions of how I can make it stop? This happens EVERY SINGLE MORNING (unless I'm still drunk when I wake up).



I know this is long, and I appreciate if any of you read this whole thing and can offer any ways to help. If you can bear with me, here's other weird dream occurances in my life:


I once did an experiment to make myself lucid dream by writing "am I dreaming?" on my wrist everyday and training myself to "check my watch" everytime I wondered what time it was, but since I've never worn a watch regularly, the experiment resulted in a complete absence of dreams since the day I started till a few days after I gave up.

I pull much artistic inspiration from my dreams (German Romantics, say what?), mainly ideas, colors, and narratives that I build upon. I've spent a long time garnering my ability to dream recall, and I've gotten pretty good at it. When I first started to intentionally better myself at recalling dreams, I began writing a dream journal first thing once I woke up. I had a short series of 2 dreams that ended in death. One was a fall dream, though unlike the typical fall dreams where the falling sensation wakes you up, I felt the sensation, my body turned towards the ground, and the sensation continued as I watched myself (through my eyes, not 3rd person) fall allll the way to the concrete below my 5th story window. Since I spent soooo much time smoking cigarettes in that windowsill over the year I lived there that my memory had a very vivid picture of everything between there and the ground (as well as from the ground looking up), So that part is explainable. The second dream, I was high and fell into an old friend's swimming pool, becoming instantly paralyzed and slowly sinking with my hand reached out to the ladder, unable to move any closer. It wasnt until I felt what I percieved as water entering my lungs that I awoke. When I awoke, for the first couple seconds, I felt like I was actually high, but I hadn't smoked before falling asleep.
After those two dreams, both recalled vividly and successfully, all dreaming ceased until I gave up on the dream journal.

I've also realized a social relationship. I'm a very sociable person, never shy to spark a conversation with a stranger. I started to realize a couple years ago that the less people I spent time with in my day, the more people were in my dreams that night. The first time this became starkly evident was when I returned home from school for the holidays and ended up in bedlock for a week due to dental surgery. My dreams were so vividly filled of rapid socializing with countless numbers of people.
More recently, being in college + working at a shop in Brooklyn, I was interacting with literally hundreds of people a day. Now that the new semesters started i spend all day in the studio. I've noticed that the fewer people I interact with during my day, the more people I interact with in my lucid dreams. This same transition marks the beginning of my current lucid dreaming issue.


Again, sorry this is so damn long and those of you who made it this far, you're fuckin troopers and I would surely appreciate any advice.

Dan