Your post is very helpful and informative, Shift. Thank you, I'll be sure to check out a few of those techniques you mentioned.
I do, however, still ask one question. I quote from Stephen LaBerge's Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams.
"If you find that you sleep too deeply to awaken from your dreams, try setting an alarm clock to
awaken you at a time when you are likely to be dreaming. Since REM periods occur at
approximately ninety-minute intervals, good times will be multiples of ninety minutes from
your bedtime. Aim for the later REM periods by setting the alarm to go off at four and a half,
six, or seven and a half hours after you go to sleep."
This was re-affirmed on Wikipedia, at the site you linked in your post. As far as I understand, REM occurs every 90 minutes (approx.), but the first few are rather short in comparison to the later ones. This is why i should skip waking up the first few 90 minute cycles and aim for 4.5 hrs, 6 hrs and 7.5 hrs. Is this correct?
I could then, in all probability, begin training myself to wake up after 3, 4.5, and 6 and 7.5 hours of sleep. I ask this, because my natural ability to wake up after a dream seems to be shot. It could be numerous things in my life, so i am trying to train my mind to wake up after each dream period. Hopefully with time I wont need the alarms any more.
Is this realistic?
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