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Hi Paul,

Welcome on board and good luck with your experiments. Please be sure to mention our website on your blog

Hey Paul, and

Wow, that some task you're undertaking - I hear transitioning sleep schedules can be rough. Sounds like you're almost there, though. This new pattern should increase your chances of becoming lucid, but I'd recommend the usual lucid dreaming aids: keeping a dream journal, practicing reality checks, and maybe setting some goals for you to accomplish in your luicds. Also, practicing the MILD technique is probably best for what you're doing. Although, technically it's probably one long WBTB.

Question, during those 20 minute naps, how long before you start the REM process? Is it 15 minutes of sleep, 5 in REM, or half and half, or what? Or does it start out as half and half and eventually 5 in sleep, 15 in REM?

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Hi Seeker,

Thanks - I'll be making some posts on lucidity soon and I'll certainly link to you.

Paul

Originally Posted by Seeker

Hi Paul,

Welcome on board and good luck with your experiments. Please be sure to mention our website on your blog [/b]

Hey Joe,

Thanks. Yes, it can be rough, but I've done it before so I know what I'm in for. I also hear that second time around can be easier as your body has already got used to it somewhat and it comes back easier. It'll be interesting to find out.

I have terrible dream recall, but I will be keeping a journal as soon as possible. I'm already doing reality checks, but you're right about goals and setting intentions - that's something I should do. I'll try MILD for now, though as you say it's like WBTB.

During the naps for the first several days you get no REM - that's the hardest bit about it, you go into severe REM deprivation and you actually get pretty close to going a bit crazy on it, but it's OK and it passes, you just have to keep the goal in mind and keep getting up on time. That's why the naps are so short - to ensure you get no REM. Because you're not getting any REM it seems that your body adapts and realises that you are sleeping, but not for long, so it starts giving you REM sleep almost immediately on closing your eyes. I recall last time I did polyphasic sleep there being occasions where I could close my eyes and visualise so realistically it could have been a lucid dream, but I was fully conscious and awake. Then again, I am already quite practiced at visualising, but this was something else.

So essentially, once you've adapted, it seems nearly all of the naps are REM. Some researchers have said you get all stages compressed into the naps, I'm not going to argue against that, but I will say it hasn't been true in my experience, and that when I tried it I was getting a lot of REM and getting dreams in 5 minute micro sleeps.

Paul

Originally Posted by Tornado

Hey Paul, and

Wow, that some task you're undertaking - I hear transitioning sleep schedules can be rough. Sounds like you're almost there, though. This new pattern should increase your chances of becoming lucid, but I'd recommend the usual lucid dreaming aids: keeping a dream journal, practicing reality checks, and maybe setting some goals for you to accomplish in your luicds. Also, practicing the MILD technique is probably best for what you're doing. Although, technically it's probably one long WBTB.

Question, during those 20 minute naps, how long before you start the REM process? Is it 15 minutes of sleep, 5 in REM, or half and half, or what? Or does it start out as half and half and eventually 5 in sleep, 15 in REM?[/b]

Hey, nice to meecha!

I went polyphasic once... here's the blog if you are interested It was actually pretty nice once I got used to it... towards the end I definitely had some strange dream experiences. All I can recommend is that you stick to your schedule, I'd still be doing it if I didn't have such a crazy work schedule (which is why I quit in the first place) and I just might give it another try if I get a regular job.

Happy dreaming!

Thanks Matt. I'm being very strict about keeping to my schedule - I discovered last time round how disruptive it is moving a nap even a few minutes. For me, the reason I quit last time round is simply that everyone else is not polyphasic - after a while it becomes wierd living so out of sync with the entire rest of the world. That's actually why I'm going for dymaxion sleep with it's 6 hour waking periods this time around - I think the longer waking periods will mean the naps get less in the way of my interaction with monophasic people.

Paul

Originally Posted by Xnyper

Hey, nice to meecha!

I went polyphasic once... here's the blog if you are interested It was actually pretty nice once I got used to it... towards the end I definitely had some strange dream experiences. All I can recommend is that you stick to your schedule, I'd still be doing it if I didn't have such a crazy work schedule (which is why I quit in the first place) and I just might give it another try if I get a regular job.

Happy dreaming!
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Yeah

Well I ignored my own advice and moved a nap half an hour, then overslept for 2 hours. Doh. Still, I'm on day 6 now and it's generally going very well. No dream recall yet though.