Thread: Sleep Schedule

First of all if this isn't going to be your workbook then we need to have this moved.

To your question, a lot of us intentionally wake up to do WBTB after about 4-6 hours or so of sleep. There is something about waking up early in the morning and staying for awhile and then going back to sleep. You might have to find whats right for you but I set an alarm to get up 2.5 hours before my morning alarm and stay awake any where from 5 - 30mins meditating or reading something lucid dreaming related. May be this is what you are seeing?

Some people use technique called Wake - Back - To - Bed (WBTB). It's most often used with induction technique called WILD, but it can be usefull with DILD too.

The idea behind it is, that after some hours of sleep your REM is longer than it was at the beginning of sleep. It's also closer to the time when you fall asleep, so you don't have to wait for it through NREM too long.

The second reason is, that when you wake up your mind in the middle of the night, you should be able to stay aware while your body is falling asleep to have a WILD LD.

You can either use an alarm to wake yourself up, or drink water before going to sleep, so you wake up because you have to use the restroom. Or you can wake yourself up by mantras.

If you are planning to WBTB to help you with WILDs, here is a WILD (sageous) tutorial, which also talks about WBTB and timing. Happy dreams