Keep Waking Up a Couple Hours Before WBTB Time..

Hey Guys,
For the past, I guess three days (or nights) including tonight, I've been trying to do a WBTB, and then WILD.
I've been going to bed at 10:00 - 11:00PM, and setting my alarm for about 3:00 - 4:00AM. Every night for the past three nights, I've woken up at about 1:30AM, not too awake, and then I slowly wake up without realizing it. I try to go back to sleep, but I simply can't. I've tried laying in the same spot until my arm goes numb (I sleep with one arm under my pillow), and I've tried going to bed the regular way. Why is this happening?! It is SO frustrating, because then I have to stay up and then go to sleep at about 11:00AM - Noon, and sleep until about 5:00PM! Any advice here would be appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Well, we all wake up every one and a half or two hours or so, approximately, every night, so that is normal. Usually, we just go back to sleep and forget we woke up, but if one focuses on dream recall and lucid dreaming, one can become conscious of pretty much every awakening in the night, and be able to for example write in one's journal every 1.5 or 2 hours. I suspect that you are too excited about the WBTB plan, and thus when you wake up earlier in the night, you have trouble just falling back to sleep. So the issue is not the waking up part of that, the issue is the trouble falling back to sleep part.

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Originally Posted by JoannaB

Well, we all wake up every one and a half or two hours or so, approximately, every night, so that is normal. Usually, we just go back to sleep and forget we woke up, but if one focuses on dream recall and lucid dreaming, one can become conscious of pretty much every awakening in the night, and be able to for example write in one's journal every 1.5 or 2 hours. I suspect that you are too excited about the WBTB plan, and thus when you wake up earlier in the night, you have trouble just falling back to sleep. So the issue is not the waking up part of that, the issue is the trouble falling back to sleep part.

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Exactly, I'm just not sure what to do about staying.. Well I guess calm after I wake up.

Perhaps you should just get up and do something. You might realize afterwards that you are tired again.

Have you tried counting without caring whether or not you loose count? You could count your breaths or numbers that appear behind your closed eyelids, but if you loose count just keep on counting in whatever way, because the count does not matter.