Thread: Large Doses Of Sleep

I've noticed that my dreams are more memorable when I sleep longer. This may be because your REM period lasts longer as the night goes on.

Yep, definitely if you can sleep solidly for anything over 8 or 9 hours you're going to be dreaming almost constantly and you're more likely to remember the dreams too, since you'll tend to half wake-up between them (that's what happens to me, anyway).

As for it being good or bad for your health... well, the only way you'll get yourself to sleep for really crazily long amounts of time, like more than 13 hours, is if you deprive yourself of sleep a bit beforehand. If you only do this occasionally, it shouldn't be harmful. Sleeping for a very long time is not in itself harmful, but depriving yourself of sleep in order to make yourself sleep longer is not a good thing to do on a regular basis.

I have highly irregular sleep patterns, and once managed to sleep for a whole 22 hours without properly waking up... had some crazily good dreams, including a long lucid, as a result.

agreed.
this is why on weekends i tend to get up at like.. 2 PM.
the adventures in my head are way more fun than the world of the waking, with its stupid laws of physics and stupid laws of... um... you know those things you have to do to not get thrown into a place where Otis and Bubba buttsecks you every night.

Yup, if something wakes me after a few hours of sleeping, there&#39;s a very small chance I will be in a middle of a dream. In the morning, it seems my dreams are almost constant, as whenever I&#39;m woken up, I will go: "Damnit, I was just dreaming that I was about to <whatever>, when you woke me up. :("

I also get more vivid dreams when I sleep longer. As of late, most of my LDs have come from the tail end of a long sleep...Or during naps.

Yep my dreams definately get more vivid when i sleep in. Last night I was hoping for a lucid since today is the last day of our Easter vacation so now I have to get for school which means I barely have any dreams I can remember. I slept for about 10-11 hours and had a lot of very vivid dreams. I had an apocalyptic dream about the Earth&#39;s axis getting messed up and we were all gonna die or whatever as well as some annoying vivid dreams about taking tests but having no idea what the answers were because I couldn&#39;t understand the questions. I also had a vivid dream about a tennis match but it was completely wrong. I had so many chances to become lucid its not even funny but I still didn&#39;t realize I was dreaming. The vivid dreams are definately the easy ones to RC in because they are so lifelike and are easier to remember when you wake up since they just happened.

large doses of sleep do help me remember dreams better, last night i slept from 12 until 11 this morning, i remembered a big long dream and it felt so real aswell