Had a Lucid Dream this morning. First one in a while, though I had another recently where I realised I was dreaming and woke up straight away.
The thing is I slept in today (11 hrs of sleep) and my LD was some time in the last 2 hours of sleep. It occurred to me that I haven’t been LDing regularly since uni started and it’s probably because I haven’t been sleeping in.
Has anyone noticed a direct correlation between excessive sleep and LDing? Is this old news?
It’s because REM sleep (when you have dreams) happens for longer periods of time in the morning. Slow wave sleep, the deep sleep where it’s much harder to remember any dreams at all, occurs for the longest periods of time when we first fall asleep.
Yeah, I’m aware of that. But wouldn’t the difference between the 9th, 10th and 11th hours of sleep be so small as to be pretty much negligable?
Yes when I sleep in, usually weekends, I tend to remember my dreams more and tend to have a lot more.
I think that by then you are pretty much stored up on your deep sleep, which is what we usually need to really get some rest, and it’s mostly all REM sleep from there. It’s like deep sleep hours steadily keep dropping until you don’t need deep sleep for the day.
I have noticed that to. I ld a lot more at the end of sleeping.
I was so happy to see this question posted this morning! 
I have been wondering the same thing. I seem to have most my LD in the early hours of the morning between 4-6 I wake up at 6 every morning. I have also noticed that if I go to bed earlier like 8 instead of 10 in the evening I have more LD’s. It seems the more tired 
I am the less likely i am to have an LD.
Same here. On days that I am able to sleep in I have more LD’s on average (and remember more dreams in general), and most of them during the last few hours of sleep in the morning.
I would assume you are able to enter REM sleep much more quickly after sleeping for a while, so the longer you sleep, the faster you fall back asleep whenever you wake up for a few minutes and you can start dreaming in minutes.