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I was wondering. I am planning to do an all nighter tonight (Its already 4:15am)
I was wondering if it would be easier to go in to a WILD without sleeping beforehand if I skip a night of sleeping since I would get to sleep about 10x faster than I normally would. I mean I have never tried to LD before (I had a near miss last night by finding a problem with a reality check but I overlooked it completely).
I will try it tonight and see what happens but what do you think?
Possibly. On a normal sleep cycle, you enter a deep sleep first but since your missing out on your REM sleep for the night, you might have a REM rebound and be able to WILD before sleeping but that's just a guess.
Its much, much, easier to do WILD if you pull an all-nighter, then sleep for 6 hrs the next night, then do the WILD (don't just do it before sleeping, it almost certainly wont work).
The reason WILD is easier like this is most likely REM rebound, though I guess it could just be the fact that you fall asleep so fast (or a mixture of both).
FYI, I don't recommend doing this on purpose (everyone who's reading this) because although the WILD is about 1000x easier, the LD itself will be around 99% forgotten by the time you wake up (both because you sleep for like another 10 hours after your LD, and because theres little chance of waking up right after it to write it down.)
Thats kinda sad. It still seems like something to do though. I just hope I can drag myself out of bed after 6 hours. I usually sleep for about 12 hours after an all nighter :/
last time i pulled an all nighter a couple hours ago believe it or not i slept for SIXTEEN hours. yea i know crazy. and i was still tired :P
While staying up all night I once dozed off. I'm sure I dreamt (because everyone dreams each night) though, when I woke up It was more like I blacked out..weird. I still can't figure it out. I closed my eyes around 6:15 in the mourning watching a movie then the movie was over. But I remember nothing. It was different from when I’m in my normal sleep cycle and not remembering a dream this was just black and I completely remember nothing. Off topic just thought I'd share.
Anyway, to the main point. Pulling a full all nighter it is really easy to pull off a wild because for me anyway you slip in and out all the time so at one point I always remember thinking "I'm dreaming." A negative to doing it this way is your brain is mush after not sleeping and for me I get confused. Like I start talking about something then realize I'm awake and whoever in the room thinks I'm insane. Anyway, you slip in and out so fast that like Billybob said, you'll not always remember your lucid dream because like I did when I dozed off you're gone. I think the last time I was out for maybe 12 hours?
When I am awake for 2-3 days I have amazing LD's with very good clarity and recall so I think that it all varies from person to person.
Because I work unsociable hours and often find myself spending very long periods of time awake (thirty odd hours at a time), I'm literally capable of falling asleep within seconds of resting my head. Unfortunately it has never made my ability to WILD improve. In fact it has almost completely ruined my ability to lucid dream because attaining lucidity seems to depend somewhat on regular and consistant sleep patterns.
My advice, if you're wanting to better your ability to WILD would be simple. Just keep practicing. I found it difficult to achieve for a long time, quite often just giving up through frustration or finding I'd just fallen asleep naturally. The more you do it, the better you'll become at relaxing your mind and body. In the mean time, you may also conisder other ways of achieving lucidity.
Like I have said it varies from person to person I have the most ridiculous sleep schedule never falling asleep or waking up at the same time 2 days in a row. And yet I have a Lucid everytime I fall alseep.
I'm stuck doing an all nighter tonight as I have a plane to catch at 3AM. I think I'll have to give WILD a go the other night.