A strange night

Hello to everyone :) even though I am new in these forums I have been into these things for years now.

The thing is that lately ( 1-2 months) I have had hard time falling asleep when I wake up in the middle of night. I usually wake after REM-periods, a habit that I taught myself long ago. After writing my dream journal I try to get sleep again and it often results lots of waking hours. The problem is that I don't feel myself tired in the night , but I dislike the idea of 5 hour night sleep because it will affect my day routines.

But yesterday I had an odd night. I had slept for 5 hours and woke up as usual, filling my journal. I went to the bathroom and returned to the bed. Again, I had hard time falling asleep, so I just layed in my bed for 3 hours. Then I fell asleep and had a LD that faded immedeatly and I woke up. I thought, what the heck and tried to sleep again. Again I had a LD which faded right after I had confirmed I was asleep with RC. Same routine went for couple of hours, me seeing an LD and always waking up ( maximum. 15 seconds in LD state I believe)

So when I finally decided to get out of bed I have had 6 LDs after another, which I find quite interesting.

Any opinions why they lasted so short amount of time? I have concluded that it must have something to do with the time ( early morning) and the quality of sleep ( I was sleeping quite lightly). I don't believe they were dismissed by excitement or anything. Even usually working stabilizing methods were all in vain. All comments welcome :)

-Unelias

Hey, good for you for waking up in the middle of the night for your LDs. I do hope you wll be bale to get back to sleep soon. Perhaps your body is getting so used to the schedule, that it thinks it needs to stay up now?

I think you are right, that your sleep is really light and not that great, which lead to all those short LDs. try mixing up how you are getting your LDs, keep your mind on it toes ;)

hmm good point. I used to do 3 shift work for half a year I've had regular sleeping schedule for past 4 months. So I DO hope my body has got used to it :P

Light sleep has pros and cons, pro is that it is quite easy to become lucid. I believe my mind is more "awake" or concious so to speak, so I question my surroundings better. Con is that I usually have a short LD and run into risk of waking up.

Thanks for insight :)