Thread: I keep waking up in my sleep

Nothing you can really do about waking up from sleeping

Remembering dreams has nothing to do with waking up from your sleep. If you don't want to remember your dreams anymore, although I'm 100% positive it doesn't affect how much you wake up, simply stop recalling them and your recall should fade.

What you experienced sounds like REM - it happens naturally when you sleep, although the symptoms don't normally happen when you're awake... Unless you're inadvertently trying to lucid dream! You woke up from a dream and stayed still, wanting to fall asleep fast. So, from the lack of movement, your body thought you were still asleep - it initiated REM symptoms again and probably also started sleep paralysis... That was the gateway to a successful DEILD!

A crazy heartbeat (which is a hallucination; if it happens again, feel your pulse for proof) and rapid eye movement (REM) are two symptoms you may experience when trying a DEILD.

To avoid that, just move around a bit when you wake up. But, you were very close to a lucid dream via DEILD. If it happens again, just relax, and visualize a dream scene that you can enter. Even if you don't necessarily enter a dream, do a reality check because sometimes a DEILD can result in a false awakening, only making it seem like you've woken up.

Hey,

I wake up twice every night, I used to only once but seems like its increasing. If you are serious about LDing you can use it to your advantage!

Lots of people wake up from sleep. The common case is to go back to sleep and forget about it. Very few people sleep al the way through the night. When you are doing something like journalling during that time, thats why you remember it and no one else does.

I agree with Puffin and Matt. Use this to your advantage for LDing and dream journaling, before you go back to sleep, write down the dream you just had.