Cool effects of sleep depriviation.

Background : 2 nights ago I slept just 5 hours. I woke up tired and remember just 1 dream . The day after that, I stayed up for almost 20 hours.

So when I hit the bed yesterday, I was really really tired.

Immidiately after going to bed, I started seeing weird HI: hundreds of absolutely real looking pictures rapidly showed before my eyes. Which was awesome....

Within next 3 minutes, I felt a WILD like sensations, of my body stretching, rocking and being pulled to the side. I felt the bed "breathe" below me. I tried to follow it, but failed (or didnt?)...

Next thing I remember, I was laying in my bed , thinking I just failed WILD. So I relaxed and focused on the noise in my ears.

Amazingly, there was no usual "high pitched sound", but heavy metal music. I dont normally listen to it, but it was there. (It wasnt in my head, I actually heard the music, as it was coming from somewhere in my room)

It was really cool. I could "direct" the music, even tho I didnt enjoy it.

Basically my mind threw together a bunch of random fragments, which mixed together, creating an awesome sound. (I've heard a similar mix of trance music in my dreams before)

It was so cool. I fell asleep within next 10 min and had an awesome DILD...

wow thats weird. people undergoing really long sleep deprivation are known to have "waking-dreams". you need to sleep or else you'll go temporarily insane :-P

I wouldnt recommend sleep deprivation in order to acheive LD. Sleep is a wonderful thing, LD just enhances that experience. :-P

Advantages of sleep depravation:

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....2837&highlight=

I believe that sleep depravation causes more vivid HI. It is as if your subconcious is trying to over ride your waking mind. (Because it needs to)

It seems however, to be difficult the more tired you are to induce LD's. Don't you think?

I've come to know sleep deprevation very well, and I've never had anything close to the experience you described....

kinda off topic but i had a friend who tried to wean himself off of sleep. i think he went 7 days or something. he started having hallucinations and he collapsed on his couch on the 7th day.

7 days huh? I have a hard time staying awake for 12 hours, unless i'm doing something productive.

There was another thread on something like this before. I think shadow started it.

it basically posed an experiment about depriving yourself of sleep and then sleeping for like 3 hours or something.


If you could dig up the thread it would probably be helpful :D

-matt

yeah shadownightwings favorite method is sleep deprivation, I think... he explained it all a while ago and stuff

My last lucid dream came after sleep deprivation. I just got back from a camping trip, where I did sleep, but I don't think it was very good sleep at all because i woke up so many times during the night. I was so tired when I got back that I went straight to sleep, and had a DILD.

Do you think that Lucid dreaming often can pose a lack of rest for your concious mind?

I was whatching a program and there was this guy who came out of a coma and could never fall back asleep and had to use meditation to relax his body, thats kinda of cool!

Yeah, I remember shadows thread. But I am pretty sure he had never tried that out himself, it was just a theory he had...

Update: I decided to dig up Shadow's thread:

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....2591&highlight=

Enjoy...

I beilve sleep depreviation makes it eaier to lucid dream cause all of the ones ive had have been when im realy tired. And i tried staying up for longer then usual last night and had an LD, ill try it again tonight and jsut stay up till im realy tired and pop some B6 before going to sleep and see what happens. :bow:

ive had a couple times where ive stayed awake long enough that i was slipping in and out of dreams...it got really messed up and i couldnt tell reality from my dreams (according to those around me)...when i finally did get to sleep, i couldnt remember anything i had done or anything that occured the last couple days...darn it all ;p

I've also heard that sleep deprivation helps for lucid dreams... but it doesn't make any sense to me at all.
Surely that would just cause more delta sleep, and make it even harder to become lucid... or when your body is finally rested, are the lucids better then?

...Doesn't make much sense really...

Well, I'll find out if sleep dep. helps with lucid. I just went five days on a total of seven hours in the field training..