This is what is for sure. You need to get into regular sleeping rhytm, in order to have control over your dreams.
But what is bothering me is this. is 24 hrs based rhytm the best or maybe 6hours or 12 hours, or maybe 25 hrs.
I heard some genius persons had short sleeping time in which they had visions of greater insight. like Leonardo, Tesla etc. I don’t know exact figures, but they all had sleeping schedule unusual and productive.
Has anyone herad or tried experimenting with it. I don’t want this to be mixed with waking during the night then go back to sleep.
Just other sleeping rhytm with regular sleeping phases.
I read somewhere that einstien only slept for 20miniuts at a time,
and that was all he needed to have great insight…
however i dont know how he kept his cycles,
maybe awake for 6 hours then 20 min sleep and so on, but i dont know…
Its obvious that each of us needs different amount of hours.Also doctors agree on it that theres no one standard time.
But what propably would be best for lucid dreaming is sleeping according to cycles of nature.Go to sleep when its getting dark and get up at the dawn.
Thats hard these days cause we have parties to attend,work,artificial lights…so on.
I experienced so many lucid dreams when I was a kid (2-9 years old). Mabey there is a corralation between my strict sleep schedule (parental enforced ) and the amount of lucid dreams I had? I remember dreams in great detail too. It seemed like I knew all of my dreams were dreams.
well Cramer from seinfeld had a sleep schedule like that. he slept 20 minutes every 3 hours. but he started falling asleep in weird places like dumpsters and underneath women
The sleep schedule you’re referring to is the Uberman’s sleep schedule. Purportedly used by Da Vinci and Thomas Edison. Basically you sleep for 20-30 minutes every 4 hours or so, for a total of 2-3 hours of sleep a day.
I tried this for a period of about 2 weeks (12 days actually) once, and it didn’t work for me at all.
Supposedly once your brain gets used to the idea of only getting 20-30 mins of sleep at regular intervals, it realizes it needs to maximize it’s time in REM sleep, so once your head hits the pillow for your nap, you start dreaming immediately. This much is true. AFter the first 3 or 4 days, as soon as it was time for my nap, I would drop off and start having some of the funkiest dreams I’ve ever had. I also had total dream recall when my alarm would go off 30 minutes later. It was awesome.
Also supposedly, after a week or a week and a half on the schedule, you’re supposed to stop feeling tired all the time, and by some reports even feel more alive and awake despite the reduced total amount of sleep you’re getting (since now you’re getting a full 2-3 hours of REM sleep which is actually more than most people get on a typical 7-8 hour a night schedule).
That didn’t happen for me. I was dead tired all the time, it was a fight every minute to keep from dropping off. Thanks to the fact that I’m self-employed and was working on a project from home at the time, for 12 days I managed to follow the shedule without missing a beat (no oversleeps, no missed naps). By the end of it I was a quivering cranky wreck of a man. I gave up all hope of the schedule working for me and started sleeping normally again (I slept for over 20 hours straight the first time I didn’t bother setting my alarm after I gave up).
Yet, I still read reports from others who claim to have had success on the Uberman’s schedule. There’s a “support” group on yahoo for people trying it out (I forget it’s name now, but it shouldn’t be too hard to track down). It’s a weird schedule, and results in some wacky dreams/hallucinations (both while asleep and awake), but in the end I guess it doesn’t work for everybody.
) and the amount of lucid dreams I had? I remember dreams in great detail too. It seemed like I knew all of my dreams were dreams.
