Gonna try WBTB tonight

Quest for Lucidity
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Hey guys, since I’m currently on vacations I decided to try WBTB and see how it works. I’ve tried it a few times a long time ago, I don’t recall ever becoming lucid but I feel very motivated now that I’ve had a couple of LDs.

Anyways, I wanted to know: how much should I sleep before waking up (with the alarm), and also: how much should I stay awake after I wake up with the alarm?

Thanks in advance! :happy:

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It wildly depends on the type of sleeper you are:
If you tend to fall asleep very fast, and are able to even after you’ve woken up, you can stay for some time out of bed and read something LD-related and whatnot, even for 30+minutes;
if you are a light sleeper, my advice is to stay in bed, and let the drowsiness catch you back right into dreaming, while trying to keep conscious. More of a chaining really, but you can write your dreams while still in bed if you want.

Personally, I like doing my WBTB early in the night, like 3-4 AM, so I have multiple attempts.

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Thanks for your reply tosxy. I have a very hard time falling asleep most of the time so I’ll try your suggestion, also I’m not sure if I have read well, but I think that performing WILD combined with WBTB is a very powerful technique. I intend to try that if thats the case!

I’ll post here my results and how my experience went :smile:

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Good luck FretDancer!
I’ve been doing WBTB every night now for about a week, I miss not getting lucid regularly, but so far not much luck yet. I am a light sleeper too, so I’m still playing with the right amount of time to stay up.
Welcome back TosxyChor! Sure missed you!

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Haha, it’s a pleasure. :mrgreen:

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Thanks! I gave it a try but with not much success: I set the alarm on my cellphone for the next 6 hours and a half, I put my cellphone a little far from my bed so that way I had to get up and turn it off. So I did and I went back to bed again :bored:, I remained awake basically nothing and fell asleep almost instantly :sad: I didn’t even had time to try a WILD at this point.

Anyways I’m gonna keep trying!

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Good luck, WBTB is a pretty good method, I believe. What I find the hardest with it is staying awake long enough get my head straightened out and realize what I’m doing. Since I can fall asleep withing minutes of laying down over the colder months I really have to get myself out of bed when I do this, otherwise I’ll just fall right back to sleep without a second though. :tongue:

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Well, the point of WILD would be keeping aware when you fall asleep, so it seems like you would have an easy time doing so, if you fall asleep so fast: just start being aware (e.g. by mentally counting) before entering the bed :tongue:

And Kirbypowered, seems like you are on the right track ^^ just follow the guidelines of making you aware and clear-headed enough, but still somewhat sleepy. :smile:

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Yes I think that was what I missed, I didn’t try enough to stay aware while falling asleep, I just got up like a zombie to turn off that alarm and got back :tongue:, tried a bit to look at the ceiling but I just fell too quick. But I know It will come with practice, its been a long time since I tried WBTB :razz: