When I wake up I can't go back to sleep?

This doesn't really have to do with lucid dreaming directly, but it could be a factor of me not attaining lucidity. (so mods please move this thread if this isn't in the right place)

For as long as I can remember, I've had trouble going to sleep if I wake up in the middle of the night. This can be a problem with WBTBs because I'm often lying in my bed for 2hours+ just trying to go to sleep. The only thing I do during WBTBs is go to the bathroom and drink a glass of water which takes about 2 minutes. Then, I go straight back to my bed to try to sleep unless I have to DJ something really important.

I can usually go to sleep fine for the first time at night, so I don't really know whats keeping me from falling asleep when I've already woken up once...

If anyone has some tips on falling sleep easily, please give me them because I'm desperate D:

Tha is the same problen I have. I go to bed at night and wake up most of the time before 2:30 . After that it takes for me at least one hour in the best case scenario to go back to sleep. But precisele after that is when most of my LDs had occurred.

Hey, there is a few threads with this problem over here, check them out, maybe something helps.

*Moved to Sleep and Health

Try not getting out of bed at all - don't even open your eyes and don't move when you wake up. This is classic DEILD technique and to do it you need to set your intention by writing in your DJ or repreating the mantra "When I wake I lie perfectly still, eyes closed, go back into the dream and become lucid". This technique worked for me. And don't worry if you wake feeling like you need to go to the bathroom - unless your bladder is about to burst you can just ignore it and go back to sleep. I do it all the time and have never wet my bed (well, as an adult.. :shadewink:) :lol:

I have the same, when I wake up in the middle of the night and do something which require some movements for example go downstairs to open the door because my brother forget his keys or answering phone which is lying on the other side of the room. Very often this cause me problem with going back to sleep but reading books or watching boring films helps. Better, study - this always makes me sleepy.