I've been wondering if physical activity affects your dream recall or lucid dreaming abilities. So, I decided that I would start an experiment about the subject. If done right, this can provide tons of useful information about the effects of physical activity in dreaming aspects, and hopefully help people to get more LDs.

The idea is that the participants keep a daily journal of their training (physical activitiy) and dreaming. At the end of each week they send their journals to me for analyzing.

This is quite a big experiment, and I'm starting it in LD4all too, so that there would be a large number of participants. Anyhow, it doesn't mean that this experiment wouldn't need your help - actually it needs everyone who might want to participate.

So, the experiment idea is now open for discussion and further refining. Please tell if there is something missing or something I haven't considered. I would also like the people wanting to participate to sign up during May '05 - preferably with an e-mail or PM to me. If enough people volunteer, the experiment can be started at the beginning of June '05 and will last for at least two months.



Procedure:

1) Provide the initial information: (When signing up)

- Age, sex, occupation etc.
- Average physical activity in a week
- How do you usually spend your pastime?
- Physical activity backgrounds through your whole life
- Average dream recall per night and per week
- Average LD count per week
- Dreaming backgrounds (How long been LDing? Natural? Special problems or strenghts? Etc.)

2) Keep the journal: (while the research is going)

- Training journal (physical activity each day):
[list]*How much do you train each day? (in minutes)
*What do you train each day? (the sport, the excercise)
*How heavy? (use these: very easy, easy, moderate, heavy, very heavy)
*Other useful comments (eg. other activity than actual training)[list]

- Dreaming journal: (the following night)
[list]*How much do you sleep each night? (in hours)
*How many dreams do you recall at the morning?
*How many lucid dreams did you have?
*Other useful comments (the quality and lenght of dreams etc.)[list]

Other:
[list]*Mood (give two attributes - general (bad, normal, good, very good) and specified (happy, exited, sad, neutral, depressed etc.)
*Exhaustion (rested, tired, exhausted)[list]

- E-mail or PM me all the data in the journal at the end of each week.


Log sheet for the journal data:
Name:
Week beginning date:

Sunday:

Activity:
The amount of excercise:
The sport:
The heaviness:
Other comments:

Dreaming:
The amount of sleep:
The number of dreams:
The number of lucid dreams:
Other comments:

Other:
Mood:
Exhaustion:

Monday:

Activity:
The amount of excercise:
The sport:
.
.
.
etc.
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