Winter Break and Lucid Dreaming

[lagoon]

Hi! I was wondering since I am on winter break how it affects LDing. For example, since we are relaxed, no school, no stress, no waking up early, is that going to help my capacity to LD? Does anyone get more LDs during breaks like this?

[cooleymd]

If you always wake up at a fixed time you can take advantage of that to increase lucid dreams Idea is that at the time you usually wake up your brain is programmed to wake up, but you can arrange it so that your body is asleep Usually it is best to to do this by maintaining your existing wake up time and going to sleep early and waking up early every other day, when you do this you would then keep your brain active on the early days until your normal wake up time, then proceed exactly with day as usual. Then on the normal days your brain would become programmed to wake up before the normal time, and you would be more likely to have a lucid dream. But you could get away with using the existing time, and sleeping in every other day (on the normal days when you first get up keep your brain highly active) (to get my brain active I play minesweeper at super high speed for the entire time, or I build puzzles of stuff I would want to dream about) just make sure that you keep the every other day going, wake up get active, then sleep in, wake up get active, then sleep in Try it and see if you have lucid dreams at exactly the time you usually wake up called Cycle Adjustment Technique CAT

[LouaiB]

Yup, it'll be a great time to LD! 1)You won't have to worry about waking up early, you get enough sleep. 2)You can concentrate more on LDing. 3Make sure to have a good sleeping schedule. 4)You'll have plenty of time for long WBTBs if you're like me who gets better results the longer the WBTB is. Having plenty of time to sleep and a flexible schedule is good for LDing. Stronger concentration and a more relaxed time. Personally I'm planning on doing my last test of my current phase. Next I would consider myself a more advanced LDer where I'll start working hard at dream control and awareness. It's basically easy for me now to have LDs thanks to lots of dedication and hard work. The test will be a long awaited experience. The key part is that it should be aware and vivid, strong senses and sharp recall of it. I lack these things usually, but I'm solely planing on getting it right this time. The actual act will be me with a certain cute anime girl in a hot tub under the night sky! (I'm a total nerd for anime girls lol (And the best part is that I get to meet them in my LDs! Take that anime fans worldwide! )) Here's a pic of her

[ageofthunder]

I've found it amazing, because I can sleep longer, and get more dreams, and not have to wake up to an alarm (which makes me forget my dreams a bit). It's been good for my dream journal. I've also not been true to my sleep schedule (well I still go to bed around and wake up at the same time everyday, just not the time I usually do when I have school) yet I still have a lot of dreams and even had a lucid dream around the time I expected. Don't do that, though, a regular sleep schedule is good!

[ThreeCat]

You bet your sweet . . . . I mean, yes, LDing in general is more fruitful when you've got nothing else to do. And like others have mentioned, the sleeping in, the no stress, and the simple freedom from many difficulties make it much easier to do this thing right. I wish you an excellent break, and many wonderful LDs

[lagoon]

Thank you all! I will definitely try the CAT technique and see how it goes!

[cooleymd]

Thank you all! I will definitely try the CAT technique and see how it goes! I try a modified version of this, where essentially go to sleep early each night and wake up or at least start day at fixed time and then on weekend and non work days I sleep in. Of course I throw in lots of 5HTP (at beginning of night to cause rem suppression) then Melatonin and B6 every 90 min thru the night tossing in a good bit of Insomnia, but when ever I actually get back to sleep near the wake up time and then sleep thru it I generally have a good chance of Lucid dream like 2+ per weekend atm (I also toss in some DHEA some nights) So my version mostly depends on the fixed wake up time, lots of sleep (or supposed sleep, ie. sleep cycles even if 2 or 3 or just insomnia), and sleeping in past the wake up time to increase to huge likelihood (like 65% chance per weekend night) of trigger

[LouaiB]

I try a modified version of this, where essentially go to sleep early each night and wake up or at least start day at fixed time and then on weekend and non work days I sleep in. Of course I throw in lots of 5HTP (at beginning of night to cause rem suppression) then Melatonin and B6 every 90 min thru the night tossing in a good bit of Insomnia, but when ever I actually get back to sleep near the wake up time and then sleep thru it I generally have a good chance of Lucid dream like 2+ per weekend atm (I also toss in some DHEA some nights) So my version mostly depends on the fixed wake up time, lots of sleep (or supposed sleep, ie. sleep cycles even if 2 or 3 or just insomnia), and sleeping in past the wake up time to increase to huge likelihood (like 65% chance per weekend night) of trigger Just watch out from desenthisization. Don't take supplements more than once or twice a weak! I just want your safety ôuô

[cooleymd]

Just watch out from desenthisization. Don't take supplements more than once or twice a weak! I just want your safety ôuô I take them every cycle. Why take em 7 days a week when you can take them seven times a night at least the Melatonin and B6 (derivative of B6 has super long half life so don't over do it will cause nerve damage) B6 has no desensitization (it just aids recall) btw I just woke up forgetting my dream, and thinking I didn't forget a good one did I, I didn't forget a Lucid, then the Lucid came back and it was a very good one. (also came back 4 other dream segments) the Lucid and one other that followed it were false awakenings, can't belive I missed the second false awakening as I detected the first (woke up to my dead father throwing junk in my room, then he began to look pretty damn good for a dead guy in fact he began to look a bit like Kevin Sorbo) I held up my hand to show him he was dead then went outside and flew towards the closest DCs (my dream censor... er um eraser... must have cleaned up... er um erased the rest... yea yea that's the ticket I don't remember a thing ) People are always telling Me I take too much Melatonin but I take lots of the 10Mg (5fast acting 5slow acting) its half life is super short tho (I don't take it for sleep but for Vividness) if you want to sleep take .3mg or 1mg or 1.5mg or 3mg fast acting if you want vividness take 10mg times 5 or more so far tonight I have had 7 x 10mg (warning females should not use high dose Melatonin because of their other cycle it will mess you up) 5HTP also doesn't desensitize it makes you sleep for a few hours dreamlesss sleep but when I ate 300 and 500 one time it not only gave extra insomnia, but at 500 it made me wake from first cycle with intense dream (it builds up Serotonin in your brain watch out for serotonin syndrome, 500 is way to much so only use 100 or maybe 200 (like I did tonight)) as for the DHEA it does have long term side effects so read about em so I only use that one once in a while I am in the zone tho, so I am going to take 10mg more (Melatonin and B6 and a third 25mg of DHEA) and keep on dreaming I am feeling lucky

[LouaiB]

I kinda forgot about these things, but I'm pretty sure you're taking too much. You should probably read this book (you can find it in PDF): Lucid Dreaming the Power of Suplements. Even if you shouldn't be worried about desentytization, tolerance is another problem. Take them too often and their effects will weaken.