Napping & Lucid Dreaming

[MottusTa]

Hey all..I was just wondering if anyone naps on a regular basis and has noticed it helping thier dream recall and # of LD's. I remember reading somewhere a while back that "as humans, are bodies are designed to sleep 2 times within 1 day to acheive peak performance" or something like that. I've seriously been considering fitting everyday naps into my schedule and staying up later to help with LDing. If this has worked for anyone, please share your experience with the technique. Thanks!

[Hidden]

Napping is good for having LD's. REM continues for quite awhile after waking up, so if you nap somewhat early in the day it would be a bit like doing a WBTB. I don't have any personal experience with napping for LDing, but I've heard that it works.

[Conzo]

Many have reported that their best LDs were during naps. I find this to be semi true, but I don't take naps often, so I can't give any exact advice based on my experiences.

[Thorim]

Yeah naps rule. Around the half of my WILDs where during naps, works much better for me than in the night. the best works for me napping about 20 minutes, waking up and then napping again for about 20 mins. I can easily wild like that. cheers Thorim

[Abra]

I recommend napping for either 20 minutes (as this decreases the total amount of NREM sleep when you go to bed for the night, as in, you will dream faster), or for 90 minutes. The latter option is even more preferable, and necessary if your goal is to WILD/DILD during your nap. I haven't had a lot of lucid dreams from naps, but that's probably because I don't nap often. But when I do manage a WILD, I end up with a lucid dream of god-tier quality.

[Clyde Machine]

You know, I was just thinking about napping today because I didn't LD last night like I'd hoped to. I woke up and fell back asleep multiple times this morning, without result. I think I'll try napping today and I'll test the validity of this thread's apparent conclusion for myself. Thanks, MottusTa for asking a question I didn't think to ask!

[Tiklish]

I have way more lucid dreams when I'm napping. During a nap I almost always have one. The pattern is that in the dream I wake up, realize immediately it's a dream, then I dive/fly out the window, right through the glass. Then I land somewhere and wander around and see what fun I can have

[MottusTa]

Thank you all for the suggestions. My goal is to get a WILD and remain in the dream..it has happened a few times where I wake up in the middle of SP and then go lucid..but I can't remain calm and then I wake up. It seems like WILD would be my best technique, but I have yet to remain fully concious before entering SP. although when I do become lucid in the midst of a dream..i find myself having very little control over my physical movements..even though i'm aware, I just can't do anything about gaining control using the DILD technique. So yeah! any nappers out there please share your route to success.

[Tiklish]

Thank you all for the suggestions. My goal is to get a WILD and remain in the dream..it has happened a few times where I wake up in the middle of SP and then go lucid..but I can't remain calm and then I wake up. It seems like WILD would be my best technique, but I have yet to remain fully concious before entering SP. although when I do become lucid in the midst of a dream..i find myself having very little control over my physical movements..even though i'm aware, I just can't do anything about gaining control using the DILD technique. So yeah! any nappers out there please share your route to success. I've only WILD'd a few times. I was in a dream, I woke up, didn't move, and what I did was imagine myself swimming in the air, just keep your arms moving in your imagination, don't stop, the crawl stroke or the breast-stroke, just keep swimming in the air, and then it was like an image appeared in front of me and I swam into it, and I was in a lucid dream. It's not easy. But when I got it to work, that's how I did it.

[TheLight]

After a nap I usually don't remember anything that has happened in my dreams :/ But that's probably because it is pretty noisily in my place in the afternoon(that's the time when i usually nap) and it may be affecting my recall.