Thread: Why do my lucids occur after a certain time?

Every night I wake up around 4 or 5 am depending on the time my dad goes to work. The shower usually wakes me up, and when I go back to sleep it is like a 50% more likely to have a LD.
I've counted at least 5 LD'S at this time, so is it coincidence?

I am glad that I am not the only one who mentioned this! Actually I have tried to explain it in another thread and there is a method based on the idea that lucid dreaming gets easier after awakenings that didn't had a theory to why it worked, but since I had much success with it and I like to analyze things, I tried to combine the result of the experience with others things I think about.

That post can be found here: http://www.dreamviews.com/f20/tried-...5/#post1978197

With this in mind, the awareness of a dream obstacle can be both understood and overcomed! You basically just need to set a couple of alarms to wake you up in the morning,
perhaps even just use the alarm clocks snooze function. The only downside with this though is that your time of lucidity will be shortened... (interrupted by the 5-10 min snooze)
So that is why I choose to use a customised alarm setup, going from short naps to longer alarm times, which is usually where I can expect my lucid dreams.

Awakenings is such an effortless thing and I can also mention that my own skeptic mom and dad (that is to say they didn't believed in my lucid dreaming stories.) came to me one day and said "Chris I think I had what you call a lucid dream this morning, I think it was after my alarm clock had woke me up and as I went back to sleep I just found myself in a vivid dream, I think it was a museum etc." So I definitely think there is something to it!

The alarms can be a little annoying, which is the reason to why I stopped using it before even though it was the method that gave me 4 lucid dreams in four nights.
But now I have found a way to make it bearable and so far I have got one lucid moment each night I have used it! (3 days so far) I don't want to count the days because it makes lucidity looks difficult and like something that is hard to achieve, but this is just to illustrate how reliable this feels.

I hope that this makes you both understand why the knowledge of the aminergic system can be used as a tool to induce your own lucidity trigger and that you will use it wisely.

Sweet dreams!

Originally Posted by MasterMind

I am glad that I am not the only one who mentioned this! Actually I have tried to explain it in another thread and there is a method based on the idea that lucid dreaming gets easier after awakenings that didn't had a theory to why it worked, but since I had much success with it and I like to analyze things, I tried to combine the result of the experience with others things I think about.

That post can be found here: http://www.dreamviews.com/f20/tried-...5/#post1978197

With this in mind, the awareness of a dream obstacle can be both understood and overcomed! You basically just need to set a couple of alarms to wake you up in the morning,
perhaps even just use the alarm clocks snooze function. The only downside with this though is that your time of lucidity will be shortened... (interrupted by the 5-10 min snooze)
So that is why I choose to use a customised alarm setup, going from short naps to longer alarm times, which is usually where I can expect my lucid dreams.

Awakenings is such an effortless thing and I can also mention that my own skeptic mom and dad (that is to say they didn't believed in my lucid dreaming stories.) came to me one day and said "Chris I think I had what you call a lucid dream this morning, I think it was after my alarm clock had woke me up and as I went back to sleep I just found myself in a vivid dream, I think it was a museum etc." So I definitely think there is something to it!

The alarms can be a little annoying, which is the reason to why I stopped using it before even though it was the method that gave me 4 lucid dreams in four nights.
But now I have found a way to make it bearable and so far I have got one lucid moment each night I have used it! (3 days so far) I don't want to count the days because it makes lucidity looks difficult and like something that is hard to achieve, but this is just to illustrate how reliable this feels.

I hope that this makes you both understand why the knowledge of the aminergic system can be used as a tool to induce your own lucidity trigger and that you will use it wisely.

Sweet dreams!

wow, so I could say i've been using the WBTB unconciously, I think it should be the first technique for beginners because it's really effective!
btw the aminergic system makes a lot of sence and it's the reason why lucids are more easier when you wake up

I recommend waking up naturally for this. It will save your previous dream and then you can go back to sleep with more clarity, either just sleep again, or DEILD.

Yeah it's kind of like using the power of the WBTB, with the tiny little change that you do it more times and multiply the effect.

The best thing with this, in my opinion, is that you don't even have to do anything to trigger lucidity, except waking up and falling asleep (snoozing).

But if you choose to you can of course use any lucid dreaming induction you want on one of the awakenings, like DEILD for example, but even MILD, but still knowing that even if you don't do anything there is still a great chance that the critical thinking will be triggered, that you will have more vivid dreams and therefore it's very likely that you get lucid.

For now I just want to test the power of awakenings, so I am really lazy and don't do anything and just trust that I will catch the dream.

This is how it should be for every induction we use, it just should work! But because of the lack of rational thought and critical thinking it can get a little difficult.

So the aminergic system started out to be the oneironauts greatest enemy, but know when we know it a little better it can perhaps be our greatest ally.