Pretty new to all this

[feross]

Well i've been trying to practice lds, and I guess it's comming to me, but idk. about a week ago I became "aware" when I was dreaming. I held on to this snow mobile contraption and start flying and doing flips and stuff. I felt every sensation of it, but when I kept thinking of other things, they just woulndt happen. I tried thinking of sex and i tried thinking of an aliens lol, but none of these would happen, which would lead me to think that it wasn't a ld. But then again, I know I was aware of dreaming. I really don't know what it was but it was my first supposed ld ive had. I also have a few other questions. about REM. I don;t really understand it. Second is about the alarm clock technique. I really don't know how long to put the alarm each time, second, how am I supposed to turn it off without moving.

[JP]

Welcome to the forums, here is some basic information on REM and your REM cycle. Hope it helps. Usually, REM sleep occurs 90 minutes after sleep onset. The first period of REM typically lasts 10 minutes, with each recurring REM stage lengthening, and the final one may last up to an hour. Polysomnograms show brainwave patterns in REM to be similar to that recorded during wakefulness. In people without sleep disorders, heart rate and respiration speed up and become erratic during REM sleep. During this stage the eyes move rapidly in different directions. Intense dreaming occurs during REM sleep as a result of heightened brain activity, but paralysis occurs simultaneously in the major voluntary muscle groups. REM is a mixture of encephalic (brain) states of excitement and muscular immobility. For this reason, it is sometimes called paradoxical sleep. The percentage of REM sleep is highest during infancy and early childhood. During adolescence and young adulthood, the percentage of REM sleep declines. Infants can spend up to 50% of their sleep in the REM stage of sleep, whereas adults spend only about 20% in REM.