Thread: An Idea for an experiment

My dad who is also into things like meditation and lucid dreaming told me that the position you sleep in does affect your dreams and sleep quality. Not the actual position but the direction your head is facing (North, East ,West, South). I think he said head facing north gives the best sleep quality.

So it would be interesting to see if its true and weather it affects dreams or lucid dreams and sleep quality overall. So maybe people would be interested in testing it.

Need a few people that can change their position in all 4 directions. The experiment should take a mounth, a week for each direction. The people who want to try this need to have good dream recall and they need to have a journal for the test month. Need to write down every all the dreams during the month and eventually compare them with every direction and with other people dreams.

If some serious people are willing to try this we might just discover the best sleeping position.

That's ludicrous. Maybe the direction you THINK you're sleeping in affects the quality of sleep for certain people.

Originally Posted by Nefarious

My dad who is also into things like meditation and lucid dreaming told me that the position you sleep in does affect your dreams and sleep quality. Not the actual position but the direction your head is facing (North, East ,West, South). I think he said head facing north gives the best sleep quality.

Ok, when i read this i was like, "wow this sounds like a very intelligent question, whether the position you sleep in affects your dream... interesting", then i see (north, east, west, south) and i say to myself, "damn, if only he had stopped one sentence earlier he would have had me =("

Anyway, i don't think it has any effect on anything. However, i would certainly like to conduct a study on different sleeping positions (in the literal sense) to see what effect that has on sleep/dreams. I personally find sleeping on my stomach best for dreaming, and on my back most uncomfortable.

You have no imagination Trig. The earth generates a massive magnetic field, it's possible it could affect your sleep somehow.

I doubt people will actually try this but its interesting I wonder if some real researchers study it.

Originally Posted by The Cusp

You have no imagination Trig.

i kno =(

But on a slightly serious note, whenever somebody starts talking about doing stuff according to north/south/east/west i get a bad taste in my mouth from all the feng shui bullshit that people seem to follow blindly. This may well be true, i mean sleeping sure is different than chi flows and there is evidence that some animals can interact with the earth's magnetic field, like birds. However, i seriously doubt that humans do this (although it is possible, no doubt), and even if they do, it's seriously doubtful whether this effect presents itself in increased dream quality (although it is possible, the subconscious is a lot more in tune with rarely used parts of the brain like the tacit memory section)