Thread: Particular sleep positions to improve lucidity

Is there any particular sleep positions that help attain or improve lucidity? Feel free to include what works best for you and with what LD method.

I remember reading somewhere that sleeping on your right side slightly increases of chances of attaining lucidity
but i dunno how valid that is

Originally Posted by sleepingsheep

I remember reading somewhere that sleeping on your right side slightly increases of chances of attaining lucidity

Yes, and women should sleep on their left side. This has something to do with dream yoga. Several times I have woken up on my right side after having lucid.

I dunno, I'd just say go with what's comfortable for you.

Be careful with some of the dream yoga stuff. That the right side is mentioned fairly frequently, I suspect might be because it is said that Siddhartha died while laying on his right side. But that might not have had anything to do with proper posture; it could have just meant he was left handed.

I had a friend who always used to cut off the ends of a roast before placing it in the oven. Seemed like a waste of meat but that's how she cooked. When someone asked her why she did this, she said it was because her mother always cut off the ends of the roast and that's how she learned to cook. Finally she asked her mother why she always would cut off the ends of the roast. Her mother answered simply, probably not quite understanding the genesis of the question: "because the pan was too small."

So according to gastronomical yoga, before cooking cut off the ends?

I have success sleeping in my normal position, on my left side. It is just easier for me to relax and fall asleep in this position. Like many people, I experience more sleep paralysis when sleeping on my back. I almost always start out relaxing on my back, then roll onto my left side to fully enter a dream and/or fall asleep.

1. Sleeping where you can get sunlight is what I heard is a good way. At dawn when the sunlight shines on you , your body produces some horomone, which slowly makes you a bit more alert/awake. I had good experiences with this but only twice then I messed up sleep schedule ( it was my fault)

2. Sleeping on your back for WILD I heard was good. It helps to keep your awareness or sleeping in a new position, like on the other side of the bed or the "bottom" I haven't tried that though.

Oh and for me, i think I wake up in different positions... not too sure but I recently remember waking on my left side coming straight out of a dream. I'm a guy, and right handed ( some of the above posts mentioned certain positions for genders), oh and I sleep in what ever position is comfortable for me.

I started sleeping on my back to better facilitate using the Nova Dreamer. Recently, I noticed my dreams seem less vivid when I sleep on my back. I also have a more difficult time remembering dreams because I tend to roll over the moment I wake up. Which in turn, deletes/represses my dreams. I never heard about sleeping on the right side being better for dreaming. I have remembered at least one dream a night since I switched back to sleeping on my ride side, which is my preferred sleep position anyway.