Today I did a kind of strange discovery that kind of makes me question my whole approach to WILDing.

Now I have stretched my attempt for a time of 90 min, but something that has happened now for several nights is me having a really vivid, life like dream and waking up from it. And I always wake up at the same time: Around 04:21.

I read an article on sleep and it said: "Regardless of when you fall asleep, people tend to experience more NREM sleep in the earlier hours of the night (e.g., 11p – 3a) and more REM sleep in the later hours of the night (e.g., 3a – 7 a)."

Regardless of when you fall asleep...
Regardless of when you fall asleep..
Regardless of when you fall asleep.
Regardless of when you fall asleep!!!!

The article can be found here: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...ycle-revealed*

I have experienced long lucid dreams and woke up around 02:00 but why make it harder?

I am always WILDing at my bedtime, but I can take advantage of this fact and try to wake back to bed at a different time.

The absolute best feeling I know when it comes to lucid dreaming, is the awareness and feeling in your mind that you feel when you wake up in REM, you just know that all you have to do is to close your eyes and imagine something and it will appear with no effort, and 3 seconds later you stand in your vizualisation.

I think I am going to test the articles idea of expecting REM in the later night.

If this is correct, it's a big win, because then I still don't have worry about when i am going to sleep, I know where my window is.

My Exploration 3 was to answer the question of: (Observing) What happens during deep sleep?

The problem however was that I was never in deep sleep to begin with! That is why I now have to change my approach.