Thread: Be careful of what you wish for

Originally Posted by gab

Are you saying, that everytime you fall asleep, you are lucid? Or only in your dreams? Are you lucid or aware during NREM as well?

Yes, always lucid. no Nrem sleep. I close my eyes and I awake.

Originally Posted by Aneas

Yes, always lucid. no Nrem sleep. I close my eyes and I awake.

I wish you would elaborate, because these short answers are not really helping. Like how and when it started, is it like this since childhood, did you ever practice to enhance your LDing skills, did you talk to doctors, what is your theory on this. But only if you want to share, of course, which seems to be the case, since you started this thread.

Originally Posted by Aneas

Yes, always lucid. no Nrem sleep. I close my eyes and I awake.

The ordinary understanding of sleep is that NREM, aka deep sleep, is when the body regenerates, whereas REM sleep does not provide much regeneration for the body. If you never have NREM sleep, then most sleep researchers would be baffled that you are still alive. Since you quite evidently are, then I suggest that you help the sleep researchers work out a better understanding of sleep and regeneration, as they now appear to be very wrong.

Could it be, that you do have NREM sleep, but that you are dreaming through it?

Originally Posted by Aneas

Yes, always lucid. no Nrem sleep. I close my eyes and I awake.

Sorry Aneas

I missed that bit.

I met a woman in 2008 who was in her 60's. In the 1970's (she was 20 ish) she went to doctors because she was always tired. finally they sent her to one of the early sleep laboritories in US.

They quickly saw that she never went into REM.

She feels very luck that they discovered that, because people with the congenital condition that prevents them from ever going into REM-state sleep, die of heart failure in their late 20s-early 30's.

The heart needs REM sleep to keep healing itself.

But they put her on a tablet that helps the heart to keep healing and she is alive today.

She never remembers any dream.

I guess you may have something similar but no NREM instead.

I hope there will be help for you soon Aneas. The way there is for those unable to enter REM.