Thread: How to have a dream in 10min.

Pretty interesting.

But i realize, even though i only got 10 min of sleep, i can still have a full dream. WHY IS THAT?[/b]

I think what's happening is that you're so tired just after waking up that you slip right back into dreaming and spending less time in the early sleep stages.

I've noticed this happens to me - although without an alarm clock. I seem to wake up between 4 and 5 am ALL the time (not sure why). But sometimes I can slip right back to sleep and dream. Since it's the later dreams I remember them better.

A few times I tried WILD after waking up but ended up staying up the hole time - must have been to anxious.

What's happening is you're interupting the REM cycles, then when you go back to sleep you reenter them rapidly. Then, time expansion occurs and the dream, which may only last a few seconds in reality, seems to last quite a while in your mind.

Yeah, thats basically what WILD is, it just skips some stages.

Yeah, i have noticed that when i'm on a summer vaction, i tend to automatically wake up at the normal wake up time without even wanting, because i've been doing it all year... So after i wakeup automatically, it seems like only seconds untill i go back into my dream, which is a great opportunity for an LD if i remmember to do reality checks.

Originally posted by catrina
As time went on, i felt like i wanted more sleep. ... want more sleep ... want more sleep ... want more sleep ... want more sleep

This reads like symptoms of an addiction... as time goes on the amount that used to do it for you doesn't do it anymore and you need more and more and more and more until finally it controls you.

No offense meant; just an observation I had.

Also the longer you sleep, the faster REM comes. I doubt waking up will cause you to miss any sleep in the first two stages, and as long as you get that its not going hurt any.

You will dream after about 10 minutes anyway, if you sleep for about 5 or 6 hours first. Might be easier to do that. Waking up like that will help with lucid dreams too. I remeber once I did something like that. I was didn't set the alarm but I kept waking up to check the time. Had like 7 lucid dreams. They where all short and 3 where false awakenings but I guess its something.

There is a very clear reason for that dream-scape. Sleep deprivation is cumulative. Lets assume your an average person and you need 8 hours of sleep a week. If you sleep 7 hours a night for a week then its the same thing as skipping a full night of sleep. Even if you slept 8 hours a night every night from then on you would always be 7 hour behind. Basicly the effect keeps getting worse because every time your even more tired than the time before. And tricking your mind into thinking it rested doesn't give you any more sleep.

That happens to me all the time. I wake up at 7ish when my husband goes off to school, and am up for a little while, and then I fall asleep until about 8 or so when my son gets up, and without fail I dream in that 30-45 minutes. Its pretty awesome because I am almost guarenteed to dream and because I dream that soon after I fall asleep it is quite often lucid....works for me.

Yah, thathappens to me a lot, becuz i wake up at 4:30 first and then go back to sleep and have another alarm clock wake me up at 6 am but i just want to get more 10 more minutes of sleep, and then i go into a dream and then I'm late for school..usually.