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carlhungis:

Thanks, glad to be here. I'll certainly be patient with it, if you have any links or other resources you'd reccomend for the guided mp3 thing... That would be awesome.

The Mad Hatter:

Cool, I'll check the blog out. I nap in the afternoons sometimes, but I haven't really been polyphasic since october. The theories are mixed, some say the entire sleep cycle is compressed proportionately after enough adjustment, others say that you go straight to REM for some naps, and stay in slow wave sleep for others... Whatever the case may be, I suspect that I am pretty much recovered from that endeavor. If I ever get a job that doesn't fluctuate so much (I am at the mercy of a mad woman, the schedule is different—vastly so—each week) I think I'll go back because I did enjoy the altered concept of time, but that's material for another topic for another day.

Speaking of work, something that just came to me, I've been working 8-10 hr shifts all week ranging from as early 5:45am to as late as 11:00pm and trying to fit the hw for all of my classes around it (I should be doing calculus as we speak in fact). Next week's schedule is much more regular, so we'll see if that doesn't help.
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I work 12 hour shifts, 7:40pm - 8:00am. I am also married with a daughter, and I flip back to day shift on my days off, so I know about irregular sleep. It is hard on my recall as well and what usually hurts the recall the most is when I am startled awake (alarm, wife... whatever). I do fully understand where you are coming from.

I have recently found a program by the Monroe Institute called the "Gateway Experience" that is a series of guided MP3's. I am not sure where you stand on the whole "astral projection" thing, because that is what this is geared to. My own personal opinion is that the same methods are used to achieve both Lucid Dreams and AP. It just comes down to what you want to call it. Some people are completely turned off if the words astral projection are even mentioned because it is too.... out there. I guess it just depends on how you want to look at things.

Anyways, the "gateway experience" can be purchased online for about 400.00. But I am sure that there are other ways of getting it . PM me if you would like me to point you in the right direction. There is a lot of other stuff out there as well.