Will this make my dreams more vivid? (Please answer quickly as I've only got half an hour here)

**SuperFob** · 07-01-2011 05:31 AM

I just tried to fall asleep about 8:30. I slept until 9:05, but then woke up, unable to fall back to sleep. It's 9:30 right now. If I go back to sleep some time within the next half hour, will my dreams be more vivid than they would've been if I'd never woken up in the first place?

**AscendedSleeper** · 07-01-2011 05:40 AM

At the beginning of the night you don't spend very much time in REM sleep. Seeming that you only were asleep for 30 minutes I am guessing that you haven't even been through a REM stage yet. Ultimately this is a very early WBTB and while it may have some effect on dream vividness, I find it unlikely that it would be similar to the kind of results you can get from awakening after 3-6 hours of sleep. 30 minutes just isn't that long.

Of course all of this is just my educated guess. Take it however you want.

**SuperFob** · 07-28-2011 08:48 AM

I've ended up in a very similar situation again. I desperately need an answer to the question I posed in my OP. Somebody please help me.

**SystemsLock** · 07-31-2011 04:47 AM

Originally Posted by AscendedSleeper

At the beginning of the night you don't spend very much time in REM sleep. Seeming that you only were asleep for 30 minutes I am guessing that you haven't even been through a REM stage yet. Ultimately this is a very early WBTB and while it may have some effect on dream vividness, I find it unlikely that it would be similar to the kind of results you can get from awakening after 3-6 hours of sleep. 30 minutes just isn't that long.

Of course all of this is just my educated guess. Take it however you want.

Maybe he meant 8:30 PM to 9:05 AM?