Thread: Specific REM occurance times

so, I wasn't able to become lucid in the past night but I do remember what I was dreaming about before, and after I woke up in the middle of sleep. Though the two dreams were similar, I wasn't able to relate and become lucid..

Anyone have any suggestions or tips?

A good way to figure out your normal REM times is to use your natural midnight awakenings. Your body will naturally wake up after each REM period. Make a point of waking up more fully than normal, and jotting down the time each time this happens. If you do this for a few nights, you should see a pattern.

Your REM will shift around, but you can at least get a feel for what your mind is doing. For example, I try to go to sleep around 11:30. I know I wake up from a dream every night around 3:00am. I also have a REM period around 4:30, and around 6:00 or 6:15.

The problem is, if I set an alarm for 4:00am to catch myself in a dream, it will work for a day or two, but then my REM period will shift to accomodate this awakening. Your brain is very slippery.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

A good way to figure out your normal REM times is to use your natural midnight awakenings. Your body will naturally wake up after each REM period. Make a point of waking up more fully than normal, and jotting down the time each time this happens. If you do this for a few nights, you should see a pattern.

Your REM will shift around, but you can at least get a feel for what your mind is doing. For example, I try to go to sleep around 11:30. I know I wake up from a dream every night around 3:00am. I also have a REM period around 4:30, and around 6:00 or 6:15.

The problem is, if I set an alarm for 4:00am to catch myself in a dream, it will work for a day or two, but then my REM period will shift to accomodate this awakening. Your brain is very slippery.

Good to know, thanks. Im trying to do a WBTB WILD but so far it's proving unsuccessful. I'm only trying this technique because I remember doing it unintentionally in the past. (I woke up in the early morning thinking thoroughly about the dream I was just having. My will to return to the pleasant dream resulted in me returning flawlessly to the same place in the same dream. I was a bit lucid after that I think but it didn't last.)
What's the ideal time to stay awake after waking before gong back to sleep?

You want to stay awake long enough to be sure your brain is activated and focused on lucid dreaming, but not long enough to make it difficult to fall back asleep.

How are your WILDs failing? If you are falling asleep too quickly, then try to extend the time awake, and maybe read more or do some math problems. If you are lying awake for an hour or two after returning to bed, you need to reduce the amount of time you are up and about. Some people stay up for an hour, and some are only up long enough to jot down a few notes in their dream journal.

Hey guys so the enormous amount of effort I put into lucid dreaming lastnight looks like it paid off. I had a small lucid dream! After I woke up about 8 hours in, I went back to bed about a Half hour later. I found myself in a hardware store somehow lucid. I didn't conciously appear there but rather found myself lucid in it. Excited, I saw I rugged-looking man standing, arms crossed, beside the door. I laughed quietly knowing I had drempt him up. I asked one of my ciggarette smoking dream characters standing against a wall for a smoke before he promptly told me "no, I need to save them". So I spun and found myself looking at a set of beautiful Colorado mountains. Still lucid, I thought I might try to fly - so I jumped as high as I could - reaching as high as the tree canopies before I started to descend rapidly. Just before I collided with the ground, I woke up. I was excited the whole time I was lucid.

I'm so happy I finally got some results. Ive been studying and attempting lucid dreaming for months now with little success. Glad to finally accompany you all in dreams, it feels awesome.

Ah, excellent! Looks like you've gotten further than me. All I can do is scarcely remember even non-lucid dreams from the night before. Last night's... had something to do with me drinking underage and getting kicked out of a bar in the florida keys. Haha, that was a fun one.

Anyways, congrats!

Originally Posted by Ailos

Ah, excellent! Looks like you've gotten further than me. All I can do is scarcely remember even non-lucid dreams from the night before. Last night's... had something to do with me drinking underage and getting kicked out of a bar in the florida keys. Haha, that was a fun one.

Anyways, congrats!

thanks man. Your dreams sound pretty amusing, haha. Believe me I was super happy this morning when I realized I had done it. I'm going to give it another go tonight.

Wow, what a great lucid dream.

Congrats

Hopefully you will have many more to come. Try to hold onto that feeling of being lucid. Remember it, so you can use it to imagine your goal.

Why not try finding those REM times for youself? That's how I got my star hours: 3:00 and 4:30.

First, go to bed and wake up at around the same time every night. Even weekends (this is actually great for health and concentration!). Now, you can experiment by setting an alarm at a different time each night (choose a spot 5-6 hours in, and adjust it by 10 minutes every night you miss). You'll get it eventually!