WBTB and Insomnia

Quest for Lucidity
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Hi everyone,

So I did another WBTB attempt last night, and when I woke up I didn’t feel tired at all, so I knew I woke up during a REM session. (which is good)

I started reading some things about Lucid Dreaming on this forum for about 20 minutes until my I felt like my mind was concentrated enough on the subject.
However, and this has happened before, it caused me not able to sleep for a long time. I think it took me an hour before I finally fell asleep, and by then my mind wasn’t really concentrated on the LD subject anymore.

What can I do to prevent this? I mean, it’s kind of obvious that I am not able to sleep after that because my mind is like “Now let’s try to sleep and hope I’ll get into a LD tonight” which doesn’t really help lol.

What can I best think about in this situation? Are there any other good techniques to fall asleep?

Thanks in advance! And excuse me if I wasn’t very clear with some things, my English isn’t very good tonight lol.

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I actually posted about the EXACT same thing a bit back!
I hope you find out what it is, it’s been plaguing me too!

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I just read the topic (sorry for the late answer by the way, but thanks for posting this :smile: and I read about the “going to bed earlier” thing.

This might help, since I did this the last time and I seemed to have fallen asleep immediately after I was done reading about lucid dreams.

However I did not wake up from a REM period there, so I don’t know if that affects how well I’ll fall asleep again or not.

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Each person is different. Some people have to get up for an hour to be conscious enough for it to work, others only have to be awake for 5 minutes or it will take a long time to go back to sleep. If it happens again where you feel very awake, just read about it for 5 minutes then lay down and continue to think about methods and other things about lucid dreaming. You could also repeat “I will lucidly dream”

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I’m glad you found it! (Sorry about not posting a link, d’oh)
It takes a couple days to get back in the “groove”.

Give it a couple days of farting around with when you go to bed, wake up and such and you should find the perfect point where you stay alert and can enter a LD easily!