Thread: I'm new here. Hello all.

Yeah, unless you are medicated or have some unique brain chemistry, you do wake up multiple times during the night. You normally wake up for a split second, roll over, fall back asleep and forget it ever happened. You can condition youreself to pay attention to these awakenings by setting the firm intention to do so the night before. This is similar to setting the intention to wake at a certain time, or setting the intention to remember your dreams. Its a survival instinct for the human brain to be good at these things during sleep.

Like Ninja suggested, this is the best way to figure out exactly when your REM periods are. Your midnight awakenings normally happen right after each REM period. You can use your natural schedule as a guide to later set alarms to interrupt your REM periods. Does that make any sense?

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Yeah, unless you are medicated or have some unique brain chemistry, you do wake up multiple times during the night. You normally wake up for a split second, roll over, fall back asleep and forget it ever happened. You can condition youreself to pay attention to these awakenings by setting the firm intention to do so the night before. This is similar to setting the intention to wake at a certain time, or setting the intention to remember your dreams. Its a survival instinct for the human brain to be good at these things during sleep.

Like Ninja suggested, this is the best way to figure out exactly when your REM periods are. Your midnight awakenings normally happen right after each REM period. You can use your natural schedule as a guide to later set alarms to interrupt your REM periods. Does that make any sense?

I'm not sure if i wake up every night. maybe I just don't remember it =/

haha yes, most of it makes sense to me. But there's this thing that's wrong with me. Alarms just wouldn't wake me up!! I have 3 alarms ready, one at 5:30am, another at 6:00 am, and the last at 6:15am, and I ended up waking up because my mom asks me to at around 6:45am. hahaha I guess I would try.

I have this friend that's a natural dreamer. I don't know, he says his brain is ALWAYS active, as in really really really thinking. So whenever there's something like a soccer match at 2:30am, he'll set his alarm at 2:30, but he'll AUTOMATICALLY wake up at 2:26 or 27 or around there..that's AWESOME!

Thats pure talent right? =/

Originally Posted by ninja9578

You should wake up before your REM cycle and try to WBTB.

haha ummm, this would be a really dumb question but what's a WBTB? is it like a WILD? I'm moving really slowly, I thought I would want to master LDs by DILD first =/ then when I'm comfortable with it, I'll move on. want a strong foundation i guess. heh

Nah, keep trying DILD's first, only when you're really good you can try out WBTB and WILD. But if you're properly prepared feel free to try them out. In the tutorials section there's a few type-ups on WILD.

Here's WBTB - Click
And here's WILD - Click

Originally Posted by Jdeadevil

Nah, keep trying DILD's first, only when you're really good you can try out WBTB and WILD. But if you're properly prepared feel free to try them out. In the tutorials section there's a few type-ups on WILD.

Here's WBTB - Click
And here's WILD - Click

thanks dude. really appreciate it. How long did it take for you to actually get a hang of DILD? I have some before knowing what LD is, so I guess that counts right? as experience =P I've been able to control external factors in my dreams xD been able to. I'm not sure if I can do it everytime though. But its really awesome xD

Well, getting used to it, I'd say late last year, I started when I joined though in May (2007), possibly a day or two after my birthday.

But I havn't gotten the dreaming control ability yet. A placebo affect will happen in my next LD I hope, I read a few tutorials y'see.

happy beeeelated birthday dude. haha.

don't worry, it is really easy to control your dream once you get the hang of it =) I like teleporting the most, its like you move so fast in front that things around you just doesn't seem to be there

all the best alright =) thanks for helping me out though.

Thanks for the advice on it,

And ya welcome ^_^

Guess we helped each other out eh? Lol

haha actually I didn't really help. I'm just saying something that is relevant to the topic =/

so you wouldn't have to thank me for nothing you know

Lol, fine then.