Thread: How does WBTB help?

Waking up through the night helps you too remember your dreams, it's useful for autosuggestion, WILD's and DEILD.

How does a WBTB help with LDing? I just don't see how falling asleep in the beginning of a REM cycle helps.

WBTB is used mostly for WILDing, so you don't have to stay aware through the whole NREM, untill you get to REM. Although we do dream in NREM also, REM dreams are preferred, because they are more vivid and detailed and perhaps longer.

By the time you do WBTB (cca 4.5 hrs after you fall asleep), your REM should be longer than first 3 REMs you already had and NREM shorter. That gives you more dreams and better chance at LD.

And for DILD, WBTB wakes up your mind, so after you fall asleep you are more awere and it's easier to realize you are dreaming in your regular dream. Does this help?

Oh, that helps, thank you.

Anytime I wake up and go back to sleep I generally have a greater chance of becoming lucid. Yesterday it happened in the ten minutes between hitting the snooze button and it going off again. That kind of surprised me.

If I am correct when you WBTB it is supposed to turn on the logical part of your brain, so when you go back to sleep your odds of having a lucid dreaming will greatly improve.