Thread: Anyone try this?

Hey. that would be a bit too frequent. I would suggest waking up every other hour. You need to make sure your REM cycles are kicking in and getting deeper each time. Waking up every hour, will leave you feeling unrested.

Originally Posted by Barbizzle

Hey. that would be a bit too frequent. I would suggest waking up every other hour. You need to make sure your REM cycles are kicking in and getting deeper each time. Waking up every hour, will leave you feeling unrested.

Yeah, well I mean I could do that. Probably would be smarter for the sake of my health. :]

I practice in the morning so it is not pitch black

Originally Posted by hellohihello

I practice in the morning so it is not pitch black

Hahah that's kewl. Idk tho, I have pretty darn good vision in pitch darkness. My eyes adjust really well, but still morning would be better if there wasn't a noisey baby waking up in the room next to me at that time. :p

I think it depends on what you're after. If you want to wake up after a dream so you can record it and give yourself affirmations for the next dream, then synching with the 90-min REM cycle would probably work best. OTOH, there is a Toltec dreaming ritual called a mitote where you are woken up every hour, walk around an altar, then go back to bed. Waking that often does indeed disturb your rest, but it also puts you into an ozone where the line between waking and dreaming gets pretty fuzzy.