Thread: WILD According to Sageous Q & A

Originally Posted by Sydney

For some reason I never woke up last night I'm wondering if I should use mantras or just rely on my own body to wake me up at the best times for WBTB?

If you're looking for the best times for WBTB, which in this case you are, then yes, just rely on your body to cut you some slack and "wake" you. Try again for a couple more nights.

Setting up and using mantras (which we will be discussing shortly) has its purpose, but in this case doing so could create an "artificial" wake time that won't come in too handy come dream time. So for now just do your best for a couple more nights to see if and when you tend to wake up at night.

If that turns out to be impossible -- there are certainly people who "sleep right through," meaning that their reticular systems and memories completely ignored those brief moments of waking during sleep -- then you might need to settle for noting the times you tend to first wake ip in the morning, and hope that you can get back to sleep after then...

Originally Posted by Sageous

If you're looking for the best times for WBTB, which in this case you are, then yes, just rely on your body to cut you some slack and "wake" you. Try again for a couple more nights.

Setting up and using mantras (which we will be discussing shortly) has its purpose, but in this case doing so could create an "artificial" wake time that won't come in too handy come dream time. So for now just do your best for a couple more nights to see if and when you tend to wake up at night.

If that turns out to be impossible -- there are certainly people who "sleep right through," meaning that their reticular systems and memories completely ignored those brief moments of waking during sleep -- then you might need to settle for noting the times you tend to first wake ip in the morning, and hope that you can get back to sleep after then...

Ah, okay. What if my body wakes me up to use the restroom? Could that be counted as when I "wake up naturally" during the night? Like do you think that could be one of the reliable times for WBTB?
Or is it just totally random?

Originally Posted by Sydney

Ah, okay. What if my body wakes me up to use the restroom? Could that be counted as when I "wake up naturally" during the night? Like do you think that could be one of the reliable times for WBTB?
Or is it just totally random?

Not totally random...

If your body wakes you up for any reason, you could count that as natural. So yeah, an alert for a trip to the restroom would work fine. In fact, it works a little finer than you might think, as those kinds of wakings, unless there's a real emergency unfolding, tend to occur just after REM cycles anyway, which is optimal for WBTB. Also, as nature tends to "call" later in the night (if you're still young and healthy, of course), that recent REM might be a late cycle, after those few needed hours of sleep, which is also good.

So, since it's not so totally random if you look at it just right, waking to use the restroom is a doable time for WBTB.

You should still keep an eye out for other times, perhaps later in the morning, when you wake up naturally. They're there, if tough to notice!