Thread: impossible? two ideas, one including polyphasic sleeping

well, I usually wake up around 2-3 times but "experienced" LD-ers can wake up many more, like 6-9 times, all naturally during the night.

That whole polyphasic deal looks really interesting. It's something I could try at the moment as well, because I'm in my summer holidays right now-basically weeks and weeks of not much to do. Maybe I should really consider trying this, just for the hell of it.

Dunno about polyphasic part, but I don't see why it would be impossible to have dream life as the main one, then again I don't think thats a good thing to do <.<

Originally Posted by Walms

Dunno about polyphasic part, but I don't see why it would be impossible to have dream life as the main one, then again I don't think thats a good thing to do <.<

yea ditto on this, i think it would be kinda silly to try and live your life in the dream world. it's a fun idea to think about, i know i've mused over it before but eventually things would turn to crap in real life and you wouldn't be able to just 'wake up' or go to sleep whenever anything bad happened. dreams, be dreams.

very interesting article, thanks for sharing!

but I'm not going to try it, because I don't like it too much!

Originally Posted by MiguelHombree

We all know how most people live their lives without trying to remember dreams. Never trying to become lucid. They just use sleep as nourishment and nourishment alone. Go to sleep at 12, and BOOM it's 9am almost instantly. Well, because people never gain consciousness in the dream world, they lose all that time of life. Does anyone here at dreamviews think it's possible to reverse the process? To make dreaming the main form of conciousness, and not waking life? Instead of going to sleep and feeling as though you've time traveled to morning, how about waking up and feeling as though you've time traveled to your next slumber? Making the lucid dream world, the MAIN world?

probably impossible but fun to think about...


but heres something a little more probable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep

I'm not sure if any of you have heard of polyphasic sleeping, but basically, instead of one main sleep period, you get your sleep through short naps throughout the day. And all of us here at DV know that naps go into REM sleep pretty quick. So if an ambitious LD'r were to become a polyphasic sleeper, he or she could have up to 6 chances everyday to become lucid. And with these number of chances, the LD'r could become an expert WILD'r in no time. I think it's very possible with polyphasic sleeping, to never lose consciousness for days, or even weeks! Imagine that...

I tried it basically for this reason. I almost never remembered dreams after waking up from my naps - you basically just pass out for 20 minutes. I would often remember fragments or feelings, but never a full storyline dream from start to finish.

You learn some interesting things when you kill the "sleeping at night" impulse. You lose track of time, and your life is one long day - you lose that dividing marker that separates one day from the next. It's a very strange feeling.

You don't realize it until you lose it, but sleep is an emotional reset button. If you're feeling crummy about something, you go to sleep and when you wake up you usually feel better. You never get that "tomorrow is a new day" feeling when all that separates "today" from "tomorrow is a 20-minute nap. Really, there is no "today" or "tomorrow", it's all just one long day.

Still, I'd recommend it to anybody Make sure you have something to do (other than watch TV) with the 4+ extra hours of free time you'll get every day, or you'll go insane. You might go insane anyways, but you'll learn a lot in the process.