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Most indoor lighting only has a certain color spectrum so they wouldnt effect sleepiness like the sun would. From my personal experience with sleeping with the light on, waking up and becoming alert quickly is much easier. When it is dark, I find its much easier to fall back asleep. Its my guess that after a while, your mind will probably get used to the lights and you may find it harder to wake up despite the light. But who knows, it could work indefinitely! kudos on the recall anyways :)
I feel like I haven't posted in here for a while, but I thought I'd just write that I haven't been lucid in a while. I felt like I was going to have one a few days ago, but then it took me 6 hours to get to sleep, so I feel asleep sometime after 4.30am. However, last night I did have some pretty weird dreams and it felt sort of like everyone in my dreams were spys or something and they were keeping stuff from me.
The most vivid was where my evil rocking horse (Don't know if anyone saw my post on irrational fears thread), moved and stuff. Basically I got this rocking horse when I was 2, one of those hand made really expensive big ones, and it still scares the hell outta me. When I was younger, I swear it used to move and stuff. Now every time I walk past it I always tell myself I could kick its ass. Seriously though, I was terrified when I was younger. Well it started moving dramatically. I looked at it, and it would be normal. I'd look away for a second, and then look back, and it would have moved to completely face me. Then the lights went out, and I just saw flashes of it moving because I had a torch. The next part is good. The horse turned into a boy, about 17, wearing some kind of white suit. He drags me to a warehouse, and tells me about him being a scientific experiment gone wrong and he was trapped in the horse. He also told me everyone was looking for him now because they couldn't let the secret out.
I love dream where everything kinda links together, in this case with everyone acting weird. Also, whenever I had dreams about that rocking horse, it always seems to do something that makes me feel bad for hating it. Creepy little bugger.
Hey MD, saw you post in your workbook and wanted to be nosy :X
I still have full confidence in you! You have a lucid coming your way just be vigilant with your practices.Quote:
I felt like I was going to have one a few days ago, but then it took me 6 hours to get to sleep, so I feel asleep sometime after 4.30am. However, last night I did have some pretty weird dreams and it felt sort of like everyone in my dreams were spys or something and they were keeping stuff from me.
What are the techniques you're using for recall, etc? I'm really jealous of how many dreams you remember each night.
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Originally Posted by PennyRoyal
Well a couple of weeks ago or something, I looked up a thread called the dream recall compendium or something similar. Anyway, I pretty much did nothing in it but you can check it out anyway. I found that keeping a light on helps me improve. Also I use mantras to wake up multiple times a night. I lay there and think of all the dreams I can, and make a sentence summary of each one quickly in my DJ so I don't forget them. I leave spaces in between each one so I can do more detail in the morning, and then I go back to sleep. The past couple of days I haven't woken up as much, but in theory, the more you wake up the more dreams you can recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by PennyRoyal
Because say if you slept 8 hours, but could only remember all the dreams you had in the last 2 hours of sleep, then you lose 6 hours worth of dreams. But if you wake up every couple of hours, then you can remember more. Note: I have not scientific evidence of this, I just came up with it now because it makes sense :D
I used to write down every dream in extreme detail, but I generally find I don't need to anymore. That's because to me, it seems like writing your DJ in more detail = more detailed dreams, but mine are fine as they are in detail. So, to cut my waffling speech down, in short what I do is:
Use a light during the night (Ha, that rhymes...) and use mantras to wake up often and jot down my dreams down in a sentences.
I'm pretty sure there's more stuff I could do to improve it but this is effective enough for me. Hope this helps, but feel free to ask me anything else anyway :P
P.S. WE'RE STILL IN THE LEAD FOR THE COMPETITION, YAY FOR ROYALDIPSHIT!
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Originally Posted by MysticalDipshit
Ok, that makes sense.Quote:
Because say if you slept 8 hours, but could only remember all the dreams you had in the last 2 hours of sleep, then you lose 6 hours worth of dreams. But if you wake up every couple of hours, then you can remember more.
You sleep with the light on?? :shock: I'm impressed, I couldn't do that. I see what you mean though, for some reason in the morning hours when the sun is coming through my window I seem to have an easier time remembering things.Quote:
Use a light during the night (Ha, that rhymes...) and use mantras to wake up often and jot down my dreams down in a sentences.
Are we? Awww yea! Royaldipshit!!Quote:
P.S. WE'RE STILL IN THE LEAD FOR THE COMPETITION, YAY FOR ROYALDIPSHIT!
Yeah I was used to sleeping in total blackness, but it only took a day or two to get used to the light. I went from an average of 1 dream per night to 5 as soon as I turned a light on. Well Im going to sleep now. Hopefully I'll see you there and we can do team stuff. :D
Id probably try your light tech if I didnt think my wife would shoot. interestingly enough I've had to sleep with a TV on and I noticef I woke more frequently. I guess thats the same effect
Do you feel your dreams are more vivid or longer in duration since you started?
If anything Id say they weren't as long which is the down side. I do get about half of them that are the same length but I guess remembering more dreams comes with remembering ones with all sorts of qualities. That could also be down to slacking on my dj though as I have barely been writing stuff down. Im starting school again tomorrow though which should help me get back into a routine.
Hmm well its hard to say what the cause is. I mean you are remembering more so I guess you will be likely to remember even the shorter ones. Hopefully getting your sleep schedule back will help a lot too!
maybe you were the one moving the rocking horse??? :idea2:
If it just rocked, maybe. But it used to turn its head and stuff, which would be impossible because its made out of wood and facing forward.
I've really been slacking on everything recently, I feel really out of it but Im trying to get back on track. First of all, I need to start mmy Dj again and get sorted out.
Had a LD last night, but I didn't really do much, just went around shooting some people. I got lucid because I was carrying a baby, and when I actually looked at it, it was my friend wrapped up in a towel. Really strange. I haven't been journalling so my recall is bleh. I forgot how good LDing felt though so I'm going to try and get going again.
It's been about 5 months since I last really came on DV, and after speaking to a friend earlier today (As well as experiencing an epic dream that I nearly became lucid in), I decided I'd come back and give it another go. Everything is going good at the minute, and I actually have some control in my life so I have the time and the confidence to try this again.
Question, should I start from the beginning again as if I was new to this?
It can't hurt, right?