I've found, pretty consistently, that a minimum of 5 hours' sleep before WBTB and a WBTB of no less than 30 minutes but no more than an hour works best for me. When WBTB is on the schedule, I also stay up until about 2am the night before. |
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I'm aware everyone's bodies and psychology is different when it comes to attempting LDing techniques. When it comes to WBTB specifically what time intervals (hours spent sleeping before waking up and length of time awake before going back to bed) have you found gave you the highest chances of becoming lucid? |
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I've found, pretty consistently, that a minimum of 5 hours' sleep before WBTB and a WBTB of no less than 30 minutes but no more than an hour works best for me. When WBTB is on the schedule, I also stay up until about 2am the night before. |
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Yea for me right around an hour works best. I tried 15 mins this morning because I wanted to make sure I could get back to sleep and I overslept for my WBTB time (slept 6.5 hours) and it didn't work although I have had an LD before just getting up and going to the bathroom and returning to sleep... the chances of that happening are so low though for me. 30 mins has been hit and miss... maybe 50-60% success rate. 1 hour is 100% so far... but an hour is a long time to stay up it's like I have to set aside 10 hours of time to get my 8 hours and also factor in the hour staying up and the sometimes hour it takes me to get back to sleep. On a weekday... that is a huge pain in the butt. |
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Though I've only done a WBTB once, I woke up nearly wide awake. I think this is how I wake up during the night so at that WBTB I could only write down a dream and go to the washroom, and even after that I was still too awake, though I managed to fall asleep. So I think I'll be doing very short WBTBs, around 5-10 minutes. |
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I am an older guy so I think it varies with age and sleep needs. 4 hrs before WBTB and a very short bathroom break of 2 minutes works for me, if I have intent to LD. |
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