Thread: Sleep depreviation a cause for lucidity?

i dont think so, its harder when im tired..

Some of the most intense dreams I've ever had were after long periods of sleep deprivation. The REM rebound can cause you to drop directly into long vivid dreams as soon as your head hits the pillow.

I wouldn't recommend it, though. Sleep deprivation is terrible and dangerous. It is really not as fun as it sounds.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Some of the most intense dreams I've ever had were after long periods of sleep deprivation. The REM rebound can cause you to drop directly into long vivid dreams as soon as your head hits the pillow.

I wouldn't recommend it, though. Sleep deprivation is terrible and dangerous. It is really not as fun as it sounds.

I don't particularly enjoy sleep deprivation, as it mostly causes myself to become highly stressful, as to cause a lack of cognitive skills. However, as a result, I for whatever reason, have more access to memory - my memories are also much more vivid, sometimes even photograph, as to my imagination.

I WILD into a LD when i'm sleep deprived after a couple days of REDUCED sleep. No sleep alltogether is not fun and I do not get anywhere from it. THis past weekend I was drunk after not sleeping for like 40 hours and blacked out walking up the stairs.... it is dangerous as I have learned. Woke up with my face all messed up and swollen but I could have been blind or dead, ya know.

Id have to agree that purposely depriving yourself of sleep just to WILD is not a good thing.

If you happen to be up for 24 hours for whatever reason. then when you do goto sleep its going to be much easier to go into a lucid dream.

You just gotta make sure to stay aware. Don't completely let go.

Most of my best lucid dreams have been from when i had not slept for 24 hours +

Staying up for 24 hours + once in a while ain't going to hurt you much of course. So do it once in a while on a day off or something.

Also ive always found it easier to WILD in the morning time.

If its dark out, chances are your going to goto sleep. If you stay up till the morning and try to WILD, the light will keep you aware easier and you wont fall completly asleep

I do this all the time on the weekends!!!
I stay up for 24 hours, then the next day, I WILD and I WILD in like 10 mins after that!

If you are going to try get some benefit from sleep deprivation, go to bed on time and get up after 3 hours. This way you will get most of your deep sleep and skip most of your REM sleep. The first couple of sleep cycles contain most of your deep sleep, so don't miss out. The tough part is staying awake when you get up that early.
A better way would be to use a Nova goggles and set them high enough to always wake you up when you go into REM. After a couple of days of blocking most of your REM all you need to do to WILD is sit still!

TruthHunter

Most of my LD's occur on weekends when I sleep in. For me anyways, the more sleep I get, the better chance I have.

I had a huge topic about this a while about however it seems I cannot find it

But from my own personal experience, the max I have stayed awake was over 120+ hours. And from this I learned that Sleep Deprivation will give you the most ridiculous lucid dreams you have ever had, also considering you are asleep for that much longer also increases the length of the dream exponentially.

If you are going to attempt this being awake for 24 hours and then hitting the sack would be an ideal amount of time to test this out.

As far as Sleep Deprivation is concerned I can only see this being dangerous if you are ridiculously tired and attempt to do a task which would be dangerous under such circumstances. I do believe the max amount of days you can stay awake is around 10 or so before you die so take that with a grain of salt.

Yeah it's prolly not good though to stay awake for too long don't follow in my example just take my advice hahaha.

I think you begin to go insane before you die from sleep deprivation... but hey, if your looney maybe you'll always be lucid lol. whatever floats your boat.

Just have enough sleep deprivation and you don't even need to sleep anymore to start dreaming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXrANL9aqz8

If it does affect the attribute - memory, how would sleep depreviation affect it in such a way, as to where it may or may not be positive?

I.e. would sleep depreviation affect upon the memory in a positive or negative way?

With memory sleep deprivation combines days I noticed. It's hard to tell what happened one day from another it seems like they all sort of mesh together as a single day. I don't know if you would consider that to be a good or a bad thing. I am also going to assume from experience memory gets worse as your brain stops functioning at 100%

Sleep deprivation would affect your memory in a negative way. This is because when you sleep especially during REM your brain takes your short term memories and sorts them out. It stores them as new information in different patterns in your brain. So therefore, no sleep, no memory reboot, and your memory becomes lacking of what it is a peak performance.

This reason is why I study at night because you remember more in the morning and do my homework in the morning because I feel refreshed. Everyone should do it this way; it does make an improvement.

My very first LD came from staying up to 6 AM! one night back when i was 15 years old. I was more than 5 hours sleep deprivatied! And when when i hit the pillow it took about something that felt like 2 mins before i was in one of those crystal clear LD that just changes your life.

Now i can easily stay up til atleast 10 AM *Proud*

Sleep deprivation (at least for me) works almost every time. I think it's because of rem rebound or something. This actually happened to me two days ago. I stayed awake for two days straight because I was really stressed out and couldn't sleep. I had three very long lucid dreams, well actually I had very long lucid nightmares. It was probably due to the stress. I didn't have much control over the dream itself so I couldn't make them better, but it was fun nonetheless.

In the first one, I unknowingly smoked some pcp (I've never done this before, I don't even know what it's like) and I found out later in the dream that everything I did was really just a hallucination. I thought I was doing everything I normally do but then I snapped out of it and everyone was extremely mad/disappointed in me. I don't know what I did though.

The last two dreams I had were zombie dreams. I was lucid most of the time, but everywhere I went there were zombies. I was running around hiding and stuff with a few other people. They weren't dumb, slow zombies either. They were very fast and scary.