Is this supposed to be inductive to lucid dreaming, or self torture? |
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Introduction: Awake all night is an experiment/method which I have "created myself". Technically I am not the sole creator of this method since it is very similar to Micheal Raduga's "Direct Technique" and is inspired by Nicholas Newport's Lucidology course on sleep paralysis. Many others from dream views have also inspired the creation of this experiment/technique. Its best described as a simple "WILD" (Wake Induced Lucid Dream) Technique. |
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Last edited by 12padams; 02-16-2012 at 11:07 AM.
Is this supposed to be inductive to lucid dreaming, or self torture? |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
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Last edited by 12padams; 02-16-2012 at 02:01 PM.
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Basically this is just attempting WILD when going to bed at night...which is the worst possible time to attempt a WILD. No offense, but I would never recommend this technique to anyone. I'm glad that it has worked for you though. |
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I think you've picked up some misconceptions (possibly from Lucidology?), but you seem to think that WILDing absolutely involve hours of lying awake in bed. I recommend you check out this tutorial by Mzzkc, as he says, with WBTB there's no need for a WILD to take longer than 15 minutes to enter a dream and in my experience of the WILDs I've had so far I've found that to be true. In fact I would say with practice you could WBTB and WILD every night without very noticeable effect in terms of sleep deprivation, as long as you went to bed early enough. |
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Last edited by Ctharlhie; 02-21-2012 at 04:50 PM.
My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
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Last edited by 12padams; 02-21-2012 at 08:59 PM.
Sick of just reading about people's lucid dreams? How about watching them instead!
Here's a playlist of some of my lucid dreams: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MTor...51F540DDEB2704
Sure, it would be more effective at night after any length of sleep longer than 90 minutes, which is around the time you'll be entering your first REM period of the night. At 3 hours you'll be hitting your second REM period, which is longer than the first, and even better timing. A lot of people like to WILD after several hours of sleep, when REM is longest, and most vivid, but I prefer to WBTB after about 3 hours so that if I do become lucid, I will typically spend the rest of the night lucid. Which can be a good hour or more worth of LDing. When I try to LD in the early morning hours after several hours of sleep, it is easy, yes, but I also feel like my body wants to wake up more and I am unable to spend hours in lucid dreams because I just don't have that much REM left. It's a personal preference, and you just gotta find what works best for you through trial and error. |
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My body hates me if I WBTB with only 3 hours. If I don't wake from REM I tend to forget why I set the alarm in the first place |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
I agree with nina. Try doing the same stuff after 3-4 hours of sleep. You will get the result within 2 minutes if you manage to stay conscious. |
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