How I Got All 6 Of My Lucid Dreams

I got my first 5 lucid dreams in a span of 8 days last month. And those days I would wake up really early (unintentional) and move to a different room to sleep some more. After regaining consciousness and sleeping again I noticed I am WAY more likely to have lucid dreams. After that 8 day span I pretty much have just been sleeping through the whole night, and when I woke up the first time I would get up. Today, I got woken up by the noise in my house around 8am. I wanted to sleep a couple hours more so I moved into a bedroom (I was on a couch). When I went to sleep in the bedroom my dreams were very vivid and I had a lucid dream for the first time in a month!

My point.
I am way more likely to lucid dream when taking a nap or getting up and going back to sleep.

Yah dude, it's called Wake-back-to-bed/WBTB. It's pretty commonly practiced. I hate to be "this guy" but have you read the tutorials or even the Acronym list? Sorry. :shakehead:

I know all the tutorials and I know what they are called. I'm no noob. I am aware you are in your longer stages of REM after around 4 hours. But I wasn't trying to do a WBTB. Instead of staying awake for around a half hour and reading lucid dream material, I just simply wake up, switch rooms in a matter of minutes and don't think of lucid dreaming. When I do this it usually comes natural to me

Same. WBTB is just the act of getting up and going back to sleep to get an LD. Staying up half an hour and reading LD stuff is a MILD.

It does sound very much like WBTB and the nap one is pretty well documented.

I have wondered for a while though, why do naps work so well?

Heh you keep changing your avatar Alex XD

You are just doing a very very short method of WBTB that's pretty much what I do every single day which is probably why I have lucid dreams every single day >_>.

Naps are pretty much just REM sleep which is why they work so well hence the Uber Man Sleep Schedule or whatever it is called.

I do this every morning also. Although I can't make myself aware that I'm dreaming when I fall back asleep. I have dreams, but can't seem to do an RC or anything in the dream. I've tried entering the dream conscious by reading phrases in my over and over or talking to myself the whole time, but in the end somehow I fall asleep and don't think twice... Anybody have a solution?

BTW, I'm a pretty lazy person so when I lay in bed I want to fall asleep. Say I wake up at 8AM. I'll lay there fall asleep and wake up at 8:30 to 9:00Am. If I don't stop myself I will do this until 12PM.

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Originally Posted by TheSixthSide

I do this every morning also. Although I can't make myself aware that I'm dreaming when I fall back asleep. I have dreams, but can't seem to do an RC or anything in the dream. I've tried entering the dream conscious by reading phrases in my over and over or talking to myself the whole time, but in the end somehow I fall asleep and don't think twice... Anybody have a solution?

BTW, I'm a pretty lazy person so when I lay in bed I want to fall asleep. Say I wake up at 8AM. I'll lay there fall asleep and wake up at 8:30 to 9:00Am. If I don't stop myself I will do this until 12PM.

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I have never done a RC in a dream to make me aware. I heard one technique is be confident and have the attitude of "there is no way i won't have a lucid dream tonight". I heard that last night and tried it. My dream consisted of lucid dreaming talk, and i was close to lucidity but no cigar.

I find that WBTB does not work for me, has different effects.

I was talking to a friend this morning. She said she had slept only about five hours last night, and had just woken up when I came over. About ten minutes after I got there, she was lying on the couch, and started saying the most random things in response to my questions - like, there were totally unrelated. She kept "coming to" and apologizing and laughing, but I told her I thought she was having a WBTB experience, where the brain is pretty likely to drop straight into dreaming at times like this. Good bit of application anyway.

It is WBTB, but I also have similar experiences sleeping in unfamilar places.

If I travel, I'm more likely to dream and become lucid. don't know why... When I nap on the couch in the afternoon I'm more likely to dream and become lucid...

So for me it's maybe something to do with NOT being in my bed. :)

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Originally Posted by legbuh

It is WBTB, but I also have similar experiences sleeping in unfamilar places.

If I travel, I'm more likely to dream and become lucid. don't know why... When I nap on the couch in the afternoon I'm more likely to dream and become lucid...

So for me it's maybe something to do with NOT being in my bed. :)

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I wonder if it has to do with your body or brain just not being "at home" enough to sleep as deeply as you might in your normal bed. I know Clairity is big on the "power of the couch," and I had a great experience early this morning leaving my bed and sleeping on the couch for a couple of hours.

Does anyone know if it's generally more effective to sleep somewhere different than usual, then move back to your bed, or if it's better to start out in your usual spot and move somewhere unusual for your 'nap' portion?

The only difference I could see this making is the quality that you may get during your sleep could differ depending on where you sleep other than that I do not see how this would effect LD's.

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Originally Posted by thegnome54

Does anyone know if it's generally more effective to sleep somewhere different than usual, then move back to your bed, or if it's better to start out in your usual spot and move somewhere unusual for your 'nap' portion?

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We should organize a group to perform an experiment on this. Get a few people (who can LD pretty consistently) to commit to seven days or something, one group napping on the couch, another napping in their bed after sleep on the couch. There might be a correlation.

My LDs were couch to bed in WBTB form. I haven't tried vice versa

Btw, I have more dreams when I go to my friends. He says it also happens to him when he goes somewhere too.

Also my other friend who is into lucid dreaming says he can do the same exact thing. Just by falling asleep somewhere other than his bed. And can become lucid most of the time.

The more I think about it, most of the best dreaming I've had was when I started sleeping in a different bed. As our kids are growing up I'm getting pushed into different sleeping quarters on a semi-regular basis. When our daughter co-slept I took the couch. I had a coupla really vivid dreams. When she went off to her own bed I got back into my own bed and voila! I had a bunch of vivid ones. Then I end up sleeping in our daughter's bed for a coupla nights and poof! My first lucid. Now I'm on the couch and aside from a few vivid dreams occasionally almost nothing. I'm on night shift a lot now too, which means I sleep on the couch until the house wakes up then swap places with my daughter and go wbtb in her bed. Here's hoping for some good data gathering, almost presently.

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Also, I'm trying a new binaural thing, seems to me that the one that "worked" for me ("you will remember to check your reality") I've never heard again, so I'm going to keep mixing it up, seems to me that fresh and different is key. So now I loop the whole thing at bedtime and then when I wbtb I just loop on track 9. Hopefully new sounds get new results.

I guess some form of "wbtb" or whatever, but who cares you guys?

good advice, if it worked that great for you I'll have to try it... it's alot simpler than other special "wake back to bed" techniques

Note: this wasn't after 4 hours of sleep. This was more like 7 hours of sleep, then switching rooms.

yea i remember my drwams easier two when i do that

so are you like not even staying awake for a period of time?

Literally just waking, walking to bed, and sleeping? I tried a similar thing with no luck, I think it must be better to stay awake for a little while, no?