Thread: Lucid Dreaming 1-3x per day

After posting that, it makes me want to try it for at least a week. The main thing I'd want to test is:

Cognitive reasoning ability throughout the process
Reaction time to stimuli
My patience (emotional state)
Memory
Verbal ability

Lumosity would be a decent place to test and maintain that information.

Hmm...

If you can take one of those naps during your lunch break, is there any reason this can't fit around a 9-5 lifestyle?

Napping for 20 minutes every 4 hours was it?

So you nap before you come into work.
Then 4 hours later, you nap at lunch time.
And then nap again when you return home from work.

The rest, you can alter around with, no? And your core can take place sometime during the night.

Yeah, there is several types of schedules.

20 min nap every 4 hours (uberman)
30 min naps every 6 hours (dymaxion) don't know anyone who has even done this though
Everyman,2/3/4,5 etc. 1 core sleep at night from 1.5 to 4.5 hours plus a set amount of twenty minute naps, most common is everyman 3 so a 3 hour core sleep at night and three twenty minute naps throughout the day.
90 min sleeps three times a day (triphasic) that's what I'm doing, it can fit around school for me so possibly work as well.

Originally Posted by Wolfwood

you nap at lunch time.

But if you nap at lunch time, you'll have no time to eat your lunch?

Originally Posted by Barry

But if you nap at lunch time, you'll have no time to eat your lunch?

Thought lunch breaks typically lasted an hour. Should be fine.....unless you travel the seven seas to go fetch your lunch.

Originally Posted by enak101

Yeah, there is several types of schedules.

20 min nap every 4 hours (uberman)
30 min naps every 6 hours (dymaxion) don't know anyone who has even done this though
Everyman,2/3/4,5 etc. 1 core sleep at night from 1.5 to 4.5 hours plus a set amount of twenty minute naps, most common is everyman 3 so a 3 hour core sleep at night and three twenty minute naps throughout the day.
90 min sleeps three times a day (triphasic) that's what I'm doing, it can fit around school for me so possibly work as well.

I've looked at the website, trypolyphasic, and I think I may give the SPAMAYL a go.....given its extreme flexibility. And I can see many have adapted to a decent amount of varying naps per night.

Yeah, SPAMAYL is another good one. You end up sleeping a lot more than say Uberman but it's good for flexibility.

Originally Posted by enak101

Yeah, SPAMAYL is another good one. You end up sleeping a lot more than say Uberman but it's good for flexibility.

Yeah, though the main reason I'm choosing this method is because it seems more long-term sustainable. The others with fixed times would appear to become difficult when your lifestyle changes, or when a 'freak' event clashes with your routine.

I just have one question: how do you start a routine? Do I stay awake for a whole day so that napping will be easy, or attempt to nap now for 20 minutes or what?

I am excited to see how this works out. I will be following your dream journal

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I am excited to see how this works out. I will be following your dream journal

You've done this before - how do you begin the routine?

Ooh.. lucid dreams 3 times a day?
I wanna try this x)
Just gotta wait 'till summer :J :J And until then, I'll be watching you.. -u-

Well, you can read up on naptation or go 24 hours without sleeping before hand but not sure how verifiable that one is. Naptation has worked though, or you could just jump into trying to nap, even if you can't fall asleep. I tried at afternoon sleep and failed and did night ones, hopefully today I will be able to.

good luck

I'm on the 24 hours of wakefulness now to act as a stressor necessary for the onset of physiological adaptation. I'm gonna be fked tomorrow.

I'm a graduated student who's currently unemployed and basically play video games all day. I'd love to try this but got a couple of problems:

- I sleep A LOT and I have the biggest trouble getting up in the morning. I average 10-11 hours a night then stay up for like 14-15 hours. This results in me having 24-26 hours in a day, once every 2 weeks when things get out of hand I pull an allnighter to "get back in a normal living schedule".
I know some people sleep 5-6 hours a night and manage fine, which is just something that would break me.

- The only thing I'm passionate about besides computer games (and lucid dreaming :p) is fitness, which I do every weekday for an hour. I've been making good progress and don't wanna ruin it. Does this sleeping schedule still allow you to do sports every day, or is this going to have a negative impact?

I know common sense would say this is nothing for me, but I have read into this a few years ago and vaguely remember that it's actually just as effective as a normal nights' sleep.

From what I know, fitness is fine for the most part but during adaptation you might not wanna go extreme, one hour a day doesn't seem too drastic. If you need more sleep than average you can try and make each segment of sleep a bit longer. 25 min instead of 20 etc. You're probably perfectly suited for it heh.

Haha, I sure am .

Is it really possible to just make the naps a little longer? I'm not an expert at all, but with those cycles and whatnot I'd imagine that the length of each nap is not just some random amount.

I'm no pro, as I'm just beginning now. Literally. But, as far as I'm aware:

+Polyphasic sleeping allows you to have less sleep and feel the same benefits and more as you would on a monophasic pattern of more sleep.
+Increases your chance of having lucid dreams given the naps are mostly REM, and you will begin to fall into them within 1 minute.
+I think during adapting that you may need to lessen or put the exercise on hold until you stabilise your schedule. From what I read, there were people doing 5-6 miles of running and simultaneously training for rock climbing, and some others lifting heavy weights 3-4 times a week with no problem after adaptation.
+There are many different schedules, so I'm sure there'll be one that fits your lifestyle.

1. Some people report increased benefits compared to mono but that could be from a poor monophasic style
2. Not too sure on whether it does increase lucids or not but I'm sure it wouldn't hurt. Probably very dependent on person
3. Probably right
4. Hopefully, unless you are really busy.

Zeal, it basically condenses a sleep cycle into a smaller amount of time, so it doesn't have to be exact and may need to be longer or shorter for some. Twenty five minutes is usually suggested over twenty for uberman but you can experiment with normal times and see how you feel. Slowly increase if you still feel tired after adapting etc.

I just figured that if worse comes to worse, and I end up sleep deprived. Then at least I'll get a mass of lucid or vivid dreams.

Worth a shot! I actually feel pretty good considered I slept 90+60+90 minutes over last night and a bit this morning.

Keep us up to date Wolfwood & enak101, I have to go this weekend but starting monday I'll most likely give this a go too!

Originally Posted by enak101

Worth a shot! I actually feel pretty good considered I slept 90+60+90 minutes over last night and a bit this morning.

Good to hear, hopefully it stays that way. How have your dreams been during those episodes? Recall, lucidity, type?

Originally Posted by Zeal

Keep us up to date Wolfwood & enak101, I have to go this weekend but starting monday I'll most likely give this a go too!

Will do. If I survive more than five days, then I'll begin to blog about the experience.