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What kind of lucid dreaming practice can there be if, upon waking up, it’s impossible to remember the dream?
Almost everyone encounters this problem from time to time.
We still need to clarify some factors.
1. On average, a healthy person’s sleep begins with:
-the first stage of slow-wave sleep, which lasts 5-10 minutes,
-then the 2nd stage begins, which continues for about 20 minutes,
-then 30-45 minutes fall within the period of stages 3-4.
Lucid dreaming is possible in the 5th stage. This is the rapid eye movement sleep stage.
Dreams occur in stages 3, 4, and 5. Stages 3 and 4 are deep sleep. Stage 5 is dreams on the astral and mental planes. During this period, the brain’s electrical activity is similar to the waking state.
It lasts, approximately, 15-20 minutes.
This is a complete cycle.
After that, the sleeper returns again to the 2nd stage of slow-wave sleep, and so on until they wake up.
The first cycle lasts 90-100 minutes. Then the cycles repeat, while the share of slow-wave sleep decreases and the share of rapid eye movement sleep gradually increases, the last episode of which in some cases can reach 1 hour.
On average, with full, healthy sleep, five complete cycles are observed.
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The estimated time of full sleep is about 8 hours.
So.
In order to remember a dream, you need to wake up during the rapid eye movement phase. To begin with, this is your “golden morning hour.”
If you go to bed at the same time, by trial and error you will be able to figure out for yourself the duration of sleep. That is, determine at what time to set the alarm in order to wake up during the rapid eye movement phase and remember the dream.
Set the alarm sequentially with an interval of ten to fifteen minutes at different times and, one day, having woken up at the right moment, keep this time for yourself as the hour for waking up and the estimated time for the duration of sleep cycles.
The method is simple, but almost all oneironauts use it all the time. Despite the trained perception and the conditional boundary between sleep and wakefulness, one does not want to miss the opportunity to “watch” from three to fifteen different dreams in a night.
Knowing “your” time, the alarm is set for three to four different moments in time.
You do not need to do that. At least, at the beginning of the practice.
But you can calculate one “time marker” for yourself – approximately how many hours you need for the body to rest, recharge, and fully perceive the state of the rapid eye movement phase of sleep.
2. Dream images are easier to recall in a state when you are in the theta rhythm and alpha rhythm phase.
That is, drowsiness, half-sleep, relaxed muscle activity are still present, and you have “not switched on” your body. Do not jump out of bed after waking up, at least for about ten minutes. As long as your body’s motor functions are not engaged, you are still partially in the mental world. The chances of remembering what you dreamed are much greater.
3. A dream can be “caught” by an image or a sensation.
If you cannot remember anything at all, start indiscriminately, without meaning, saying everything that comes to mind and visualizing, at least fleetingly. For example: house, car, grasshopper, plate, count, tornado, typhoon, school, asphalt… That was my random series.
Usually, something from the subconscious floats up that was in the dream…
This works for most people, even if they try to remember a dream during the day, when a lot of time has passed…
4. If there is a direct connection, there will also be a reverse one.
The “feedback” method is based on the fact that you give yourself the instruction to see a specific place, object, person in a dream…
Upon waking, you already know what or who was supposed to be dreamed of. That is, you don’t just remember, but you know for certain what was there, and at the same time the rest of the dream is “pulled out” by this hook.
5. What prevents you from remembering dreams?
– medications. If you are taking medicinal products that directly or indirectly affect blood vessels, the endocrine system, sedatives, tranquilizers;
– alcohol, drugs, psychoactive substances;
– traumatic brain injuries;
– diseases of the endocrine system, blood vessels of the brain;
– sleep and wake schedule does not coincide with the circadian rhythm (night and day are reversed);
– overfatigue, lack of energy, stress;
– high temperature in the room where you sleep;
– recent studies have confirmed the influence of geomagnetic storms on the quality of dreams and their recall. That is indeed the case. On average, the recall of one’s own dreams is an order of magnitude higher in the absence of geomagnetic disturbances;
– a late supper, which sets the body to work during sleep and prevents the body’s functions from switching to a normal rest cycle;
All of the above takes you away from the state that in chemistry is conventionally called N.C. – that is, normal conditions. In this case, for a full-fledged rapid phase and the brain’s functioning during sleep in all cycles.
