Thread: Lucid Hotspots?

That makes sense, but I had stayed for two nights, as did Echosun13 ( realize that this is not nearly enough to base a "Study" on, just an idea..). I only had a LD when I was on the floor, and she only when she was on the floor. So maybe it wasn't the floor, it was just me being in the city and giving Echo the placebo push that she needed.

I stayed in a hotel one night, and that night had an extremely vivid and emotional dream. I think unfamiliarity has a lot to do with it.

a lot of you seem to be mentioning hotels, and unless you just stay in hotels as a hobby, I'd say youre also talking about travelling. I've always noticed that travelling disrupts my sleeping pattern, and it also makes a lot of sense considering the kind of stress and potentially, time changes, travelling involves. My thought on this is that this disrupted sleep pattern happens to cause your brain to demand a greater amount of restorative REM sleep, giving you more and more vivid dreams that are easier to become lucid in.

I hear this argument a lot, that if you sleep some place new - you might have a more vivid or lucid dream

so I go on vacation thinking, gee! im gonna have a great dream tonight. and the opposite happens to me, I tend to wake up with no recall

I dont think ive ever been able to have a vivid or lucid dream away from the comfort of my bed

Originally Posted by juroara

I hear this argument a lot, that if you sleep some place new - you might have a more vivid or lucid dream

so I go on vacation thinking, gee! im gonna have a great dream tonight. and the opposite happens to me, I tend to wake up with no recall

I dont think ive ever been able to have a vivid or lucid dream away from the comfort of my bed

Well, maybe the hotel beds are SO COMFY that you sleep all the way thru your dream, thus, not remembering it. Maybe it's the most ridiculously lucid dream ever, but yer just sleeping all the way thru?

Well congratiolations on that one!
I say, it's because

1. You are in a new place, so your mind goes into 'aware of dangers'-mode. As in, instinctive stuff.

And/or

2. The had floor keeps you slightly awake, making it work like an anchor to reality, as I believe someone explained in a WILD tutorial. (Link comming up in an edit)
EDIT: Blah, can't find the right one I think, it was made by BillyBob though.

I'm actually seriously considering trying to sleep on my floor tonight. Hrmmm. Besides keeping me conscious and aware, it should also be a clear message to my subconscious that I'm serious about my intentions. Har har! Now that I've said that, if I don't, it will be a message that I'm not serious about it :< I'll report back, investigation!

Anyways, since you said it, I think there are ALOT of things that could mess with your dreams, like, from the Moons gravity, the Earths north & south poles, pollution in your air, temperature, light. So definetly, some places are better then others, I agree. Woah, imagine if we found a planet filled with gasses that kept the human mind conscious all the time. Ohsh-

Maybe it's being close to the ground. The last time I slept in a hotel I slept on the twenty-second floor, and I had no recall at all, so I doubt that that would have been very good for lucids.

Originally Posted by John Updike

a lot of you seem to be mentioning hotels, and unless you just stay in hotels as a hobby, I'd say youre also talking about travelling. I've always noticed that travelling disrupts my sleeping pattern, and it also makes a lot of sense considering the kind of stress and potentially, time changes, travelling involves. My thought on this is that this disrupted sleep pattern happens to cause your brain to demand a greater amount of restorative REM sleep, giving you more and more vivid dreams that are easier to become lucid in.

I guess that doesn't work for me. I spent the last 12 months travelling and I never had a lucid dream - plus, I remembered almost no dreams whatsoever during that time.

As far as I know the belief is that sleeping in unfamiliar or unusual places/positions/whatever is good for lucid dreaming because it means that you are instinctively going to sleep differently, that you are sleeping lighter because your body is still not accustomed to the environment, and that helps you maintain consciousness or attain lucidity more easily. Then of course you could factor in the placebo effect, or like someone mentioned just the thought that carries on into your dreams of "Wow I'm sleeping on a floor (which I hope you usually don't do)... hmm wait how can I be sleeping on a floor if I am standing on a mountain right now? Oh wait, I must be dreaming!" I know this happens to me a lot when I go to bed way later than I should... normally if this thought is in my mind, like I'm having trouble falling asleep and don't until 3 am, I dream of a clock and realize that I went to bed at 3 and have a DILD.

Anyway that is my belief, and I think why so many induction techniques suggest sleeping in strange places (on your couch, backwards or sideways in your bed or on your bedroom floor, etc.)

I find that when I travel, I'm usually exhausted so I sleep pretty heavily. I'm going on vacation for ten days to my dad's, though, so I'm planning on cultivating some lucids while I'm there. I usually get a couple because my bedroom there creeps me out, so I never get into too deep of a sleep! Add in the strange sounds of his neighborhood and house, and yea... the ideal LDing environment!

I dunno about all that... I mean, I've gone camping quite a bit in my life, and my dream recall is nada, 99.9&#37; of the time. Maybe the fact that sleeping on a tent "floor" is a lot less comfortable than sleeping on a hotel floor has something to do with it, but I really have no idea. As far as my dreams go, travel = not good.

Originally Posted by Lëzen

I dunno about all that... I mean, I've gone camping quite a bit in my life, and my dream recall is nada, 99.9% of the time. Maybe the fact that sleeping on a tent "floor" is a lot less comfortable than sleeping on a hotel floor has something to do with it, but I really have no idea. As far as my dreams go, travel = not good.

I think being in a tent out in the nature is very different to being at a hotel when traveling.

I was not sure why I thought that when I first read your post, but I think it's this;

Say you are on a vacation where you got the beach, pools, all kinds of sightseeing to do. Then you go do those things during the day, and once you are done, you go back to the hotel, that's where you sort of zoom out of exploring mode. When you go to bed, you have the thoughts of the day in your mind, and now you are sort of in the middle between safety of home and excitement of the vacation.

But, say you are on a trip of staying overnight in nature.
Ugh, it's hard to explain methinks, but I just feel like the 'zooming out' feeling ever comes in that, it feels like one never really gets out of it, never getting to think of anything else. It's only when you really get home that you think about it all.
(Warning; from my own experience/Not sure if I'm talking shit or actually something.)

Actually...a possible reason why some individuals experience this type of phenomena is simple: Your mind becomes more alert upon being in certain places other than your home, which is much more familiar to you. Thereby, alertness is contributed to awareness and viceversa which lead to frequently having lucid dreams. Last but not least, lucid dreams feed on one's awareness in order to process in your mind...
--I hope this woke some senses

Wow funny you posted this, it just hit me, that I've been in a slump last week, and going in a hotel on sunday i had recall and ld

I hear you man! Whenever I travel and sleep in a hotel, or sleep over a relatives, I always have at least very clear dreams. I'm pretty sure it's because your subconscious is aware while your sleeping that your in an irregular location, so it is more alert, resulting in vivid dreams. Sleeping on a coach u never slept on before has a similiar affect!