Sleep quality & LD

Quest for Lucidity
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Hello forum,

I have achieved LD a couple of times, where I was flying playing with sharks etc.

In general however I noticed that each time I remember vivid dreams the quality of my sleep is bad, I.e. sleeping on my hand or having a cramp or sweating because of a very warm night etc.

Sometimes due to the nature of my work, I sleep on ships and I can remember whole adventures from these nights.

When I sleep from midnight to 0700 without any disturbance or noise and without any awakenings, I don’t remember any dream. When I sleep but I have noise in the next room and/or I am having some disturbances and awakenings I remember couple of dreams per night.

So my question is: the worst the sleep quality the more dreams remembered and the more chances for LD?

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I can’t say for sure that the worst the sleep is, better is the dream recall.

My first LD was after 4.5 hours of sleep, going to bed drunk… but I was fully restored/recovered after that dream.

And my other LD, well, I had a very long and calm night/morning of sleep…

So…?
I could not say for sure bad sleep is better… well, for me, for now…!

3

I don’t know how to answer your question, but I always have LDs 3 or 4 hours before I wake up, and not when I start sleeping.

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It´s not the bad quality of your sleep, but if you awake after your dreams it´s easier to remember them because you are coming right out of your dream and you are more concious.
So if you sleep through the night without (conciously-) waking up you only have a little chance to remember your dreams.

You might try out some autosuggestion like: “Every time I dream I will wake up and remember my dream…” that will increase your dream recall and you get better chances for LD´s.

5

Indeed. And so some people wake up little while sleeping so don’t experience a connection between bad sleep and vivid dreaming.

6

Thanks for the replies and clarification.

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No problem. Good lucid dreaming! :wave:

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It might not be the fact you have bad sleep, it’s more likely that because you’re sleeping on your hands, hearing noises, etc you are getting external cues and so become a bit more aware, and as a result can remember your dreams. Hmm maybe setting my watch to beep every hour will help :smile:

Hope I helped!