Thread: Bharmo's Workbook

For the past three or four days I've been waking up naturally or accidentally during the night, and performing MILD at bedtime and at the WBTB, without leaving bed. No lucids, of course.
I've been having poor dream recall, as well. I believe this is caused some days because of stress, and some days because of having gone to bed later, and woke up later using a lot of "snooze" which kills my dream recall (6.00am? 10 more minutes, 6.10am? 10 more minutes, etc) Need to be more disciplined.

From today on, things should go back to normal, more or less.

Another bad night...
No lucids, no recall. Went to bed doing MILD, fell asleep quite fast. I remember waking up because my wife was having trouble sleeping, but didn't want to contribute to her problem getting up for a "proper" WBTB so I just turned around and tried to do MILD but I guess I just fell sleep straight away. This morning I did again the snooze thing for 20 minutes, so got up with zero recall. I feel so LAZY!!
ok, looking for causes/solutions:
- I wonder if my sleep cycles are messed up because of having altered my schedule on the weekend, althought it was not really a big change. Maybe my wife is having more problem sleeping than I remember and I'm not resting properly.
- My wake up alarm is Inception's song "Time" which used to wake me up gently and remind me of my intention to DJ, but these days I feel like I don't wake up completely before hitting the snooze, so I may have to try another alarm that wakes me up at once, so I dont fall to temptation of snoozing and lose my recall.
- I have to try to get up before my wife does (she has no problem with that, actually she likes it because even though she wakes up, she can go back to sleep straight away because she feels like she is sleeping in) This way I can use this time that I'm alone to focus in remembering my dreams. But this means reducing my amount of sleep, obviously, as I usually cannot go to bed earlier at night.
I'll keep thinking what else I can do. BTW, I'm not doing bad on the RC day practice, 5 to 10 per day.