Thread: My REM Timing

I've managed to get myself to wake up after a lot of my dreams during the night and for the past week or so I've been writing down the times at which I have woken up (so, times at which my dreams have ended).

I noticed an interesting pattern, first of all my sleep patterns themselves are quite erratic, my bed time likes to shift or I sleep in, but the interesting thing is that the time differences between each dream does not change much even when my bed time shifts by +/- an hour or I sleep in.

So data time!

Bed times between 10:00 and 01:00.

Wake up times vary drastically but I noticed that after 9 hours of sleep dreams basically stop, this might just be me but after about 8 hours of sleep, if I decide to "oversleep" I only have 1 more dream to go during that time and after that my brain stops giving me REM and basically kicks me out of bed.

And finally my REM cycle pattern:

First dream (that I wake up from) is after ~3:10 hours:minutes of sleep and after that it's every hour! So 3:10, 4:10, 5:10, 7:10, 8:10. At these times I am either in the middle of or at the end of a dream. Although the times themselves are from different days, so Day1 might be 3:10, 5:10, Day2 might be 3:10, 7:10, Day3 - 3:10, 5:10, 7:10 but the "hourly" pattern doesn't seem to change, it seems that I just sometimes skip a dream or two before waking up again. You might notice 6:10 is missing, for some odd reason I've never woken up after this amount of time, but I think it's safe to assume 6:10 is probably the same as the rest.

So there you go, this could just be me but I'm sharing in the hopes that it might help somebody plan their WBTB times better. =]


Good luck. =]