does it matter where you sleep?

**hwrd** · 02-25-2010 06:38 AM

i was just wondering if you're more likely to become lucid sleeping in your normal bed or in a bed you don't normally sleep in. any thoughts?

**ruba** · 02-25-2010 04:43 PM

depends on whether you fall asleep easily in unknown places.
I don't, so I think I've got less chance to have an LD in an unknown place.

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however.. It might even help you WILDing (because if you don't easily fall asleep, you don't easily lose consciousness while trying to reach the SP state)

**slash112** · 02-25-2010 06:43 PM

When I fall asleep in places I don't want to fall asleep (i.e. places other than my own home/bed), I feel like I can keep my consciousness a bit longer. It would definitely help for WILD.

**Karebennian** · 02-25-2010 09:44 PM

This had an effect on me about a year ago. I had to move the furniture in my room to paint the walls and somehow having the bed in the center of the room made me wake up with sleep paralysis two or three times in the same night, and my dreams were the most vivid I ever had. It was pretty wierd and I think the same thing happend when I was younger too. So from my experience it's something that is only slightly different from normal that has any effect. Sleeping in a different place altogether (like a hotel room or friend's house) doesn't have the same effect.