LD interupts my sleep patterns

[DelThako]

I normally only sleep for 6 hours/day and it doesn’t seem to be enough to have LDs. Last week I was tired and slept for 8 hours and had my first two lucid dreams.

But is there a technique that can be used with 6 hours of sleep?

[shatterspike1]

6 hours a day of sleep isn’t healthy, you probably were too tired to have LDs.

[DelThako]

Actually I sleep 5,5-6,5 hours a day and wake up quite refreshed. Have been doing so for about a month and if 6 hours of sleep would be unhealthy that would make for some heck of a sleep deprivation…

[size=75]Wiseass smallprint:

stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/0 … rly-riser/

1.go to sleep only when you’re tired(with a deadline)
2.wake up at fixed time

Also, polyphasic sleepers only sleep 2,5 hours a day.[/size]

[Fadem]

Polyphasic/uberman sleep is unhealthy. Yes, you can do it for a while, maybe 4~5 months. But it will start taking effect on your body because you do not have, or have a decreased ammount of, deep sleep.

[DelThako]

Well REM is the most important phase of the sleep.

But in any case early rising (5-6,5 hours) of sleep is not unhealthy.

Back to the topic…is it at least possible to have a LD in the period of 4-6 hours of sleep?

[Sakoda]

umm REM and delta sleep a equally important …
to your question … i think yes

[DelThako]

Okay this is going completely off-topic, so I’ll just leave my last post here.

stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/1 … sic-sleep/

How can this sleep schedule work? Supposedly it takes about a week to adjust to it. A normal sleep cycle is 90 minutes, and REM sleep occurs late in this cycle. REM is the most important phase of sleep, the one in which you experience dreams, and when deprived of REM for too long, you suffer serious negative consequences. Polyphasic sleep conditions your body to learn to enter REM sleep immediately when you begin sleeping instead of much later in the sleep cycle. So during the first week you experience sleep deprivation as your body learns to adapt to shorter sleep cycles, but after the adaptation you’ll feel fine, maybe even better than before.

I haven’t tried polyphasic sleep yet, especially not for 7 months like the author of the quote, but I’m absolutely sure that delta sleep is not as important anymore when the body’s adapted to polyphasic sleep cycle.