Too Much Sleep?

["tomeeka"]

could the fact that I am getting too much sleep be the cause of no lucidity these days. Whenever I would have lucid dreams it was because I felt super tired before I went to sleep(so it seems). Should I maybe cut back on sleep a little? Would that maybe help?

[Lunalight]

Hrm... I get 7-8 hours a night and it doesn't effect my dreams;however, I think your lucidity will come back once your body adjusts to this new sleep pattern. Hope that helps.

[Howie]

could the fact that I am getting too much sleep be the cause of no lucidity these days. Whenever I would have lucid dreams it was because I felt super tired before I went to sleep(so it seems). Should I maybe cut back on sleep a little? Would that maybe help?[/b] Too much sleep can create grogginess and a lack of some dream recall. Everyone differs, but generally 6-7-8 hours of sleep is adequate for most people. Your body falls asleep and during the non rem stages it gets the needed rest it requires for recharging itself. This may be throwing off your REM cycles and making them very short in duration.

[NeAvO]

You've got to keep the balance just right, about 6-9 hours. Anything above that can affect your dreams. How ever the more time you spend dreaming the more vivid dreams tend to be.

[snackpacks]

shit i usually get 9-10 hours of sleep a night. Maybe thats why i never get any LD's.

["tomeeka"]

Well I finally had a lucid dream this morning..crappy, but nevertheless lucid. Anyways I think it must have alot to do with the position in which I am asleep at the moment. Everytime I become lucid I've noticed that I have, by chance, wound up having been on my stomach or back. This is not how I fall asleep, but I guess whilst sleeping every now and then I turn to these positions thus causing SP which in turn makes me lucid. I'm gonna have to learn to start falling asleep in a different position I guess.Problem solved...for now anyway.

[Serith]

That's weird, because during weekends, when I get between 9 and 11 hours of sleep, I'm way more likely to lucid dream than on weekdays, where I get eight hours at the most. Maybe since I only get that extra couple of hours of sleep on the weekends, it has the same effect as the cycle adjustment technique . Instead of cutting sleep back every day, which may have no work, perhaps you should try the CAT, and then you don't have to get up early every day, and will have definite benefits.