Thread: oversleeping and lucidity

maybe this has been dicussed before, but I never saw any topic concerning this, so here it goes anyway


Probably everyone here knows at least the sketch of the stages of our sleep. The difference between wakefulness, deep sleep, REM sleep and all.

Also, the fact that, the more time you have been sleeping, the longer and more frequent will be your REM periods, which makes your last hours of sleep the best ones for (lucid) dreaming.

And finally, that we wake up for really really short moments after our REM periods. It's almost always so short that we don't even realize it.


That way, a logical deduction is made: if you oversleep a few hours, your REM will be even longer and your chances of getting lucid become higher.

This has proven real lthe last night to me: For once, excessive control over my dream made it fade, and I was able to chain another lucid dream through that.
Another situation is when I was in a dream and felt like using the bathroom. This got me lucid instantly and I had enough time to think "bah, I'll have to get up all walk all the way to the bathroom and out of my comfy bed" and then the dream faded.


So I believe that, on later REM periods, not only the length, but the "quality" of the periods get better. In REM you are fully capable of staying aware of your surroundings, but for some reason that doesn't usually happen in our first REMs.



I wanted to see other people's opinion about this. I can almost trace a relation between conciousness, dreams and evolution (yes darwin's evolution), how we achieved consciousness, and how we are still not 100% conscious: in our sleep.


Is the evolutionary stream leading us to becoming more aware? Is being lucid in our sleep and dreams anyhow making us more "fulfilled"?


alright enough open-ended questions

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