i accidentally discovered a faster form of WBTB. one day i kept awake untill 11 pm.
then i slept for one hour. i woke up at 12 am and remained awake until 2 am. i slept at 2 am and had a lucid dream. on awakening i was shocked to see that the time is only 4am.i am not sure whether this method works all the time. i hope some of you will try this.
i tried the method a few times again with sucess. but, this time i slept for 2hrs first instead of 1 hr.
yes this is good
when you sleep,
then you wake up
you don’t have REM yet
if you keep going back to sleep every time you are awake for a few minutes,
then the consciousness gets lost,
it is supposed to, so you can get tricked into dreaming without knowing it,
I’m not gonna try this because I need my sleep because I need to get up at 6:00 AM to take my SATs but I can tell you that the consciousness part of it can happen but your dreams wont be very vivid (though they do become increasingly vivid when you become lucid) because you don’t even go into REM so its a really good thing if you keep a DJ but it can seriously damage your biological clock so it may be harder to get up or you may be in a horrible mood all day long. [spoiler]Do a half hourly reality check every day[/spoiler]
From my experiences, bout 80% of my succesfull WILD’s occured in my first attempt when first going to bed for the night. (That’s not to say I’ve failed plenty either) But, I noticed, after a long day, and being physically tired, made it easier. (But you can’t be mentally tired, it will be way too easy to fall asleep… even then, if you fall asleep, if you’re used to trying WILD so much, you end up waking up later in the night anyway. A Perfect time to try WILD again.)
nthomas wrote
but i had very vivid dreams in this method, but they seem to fade away faster. or i think it is just placebo effect. i read in a LDing book that it is possible to have LDs even in non-REM i.e just in 1 or 2 hours after sleep, even though research claims that vivid memorable dreams occur only in REM. the author puts the following reason for this phenomenon, those experiments were conducted in normal persons but not in accomplished lucid dreamers.