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originally posted by: ThatDamnDuckAgain
Today I had an appointment but could choose to get up a little later than normal, as I was on my own. 4-5h sleep is usually enough for me.
What I did today is hit the snooze button six times (10min intervals) in a row, it has been a long time I could do that. That led to me dreaming very lucid. Normal, I can not dream lucid. I noticed when I go to bed in daylight on a Sunday morning, this is happening. It's seldom because I have a kid and naturally I can't do this very often, but it happens often enough I started to recognize a pattern.
Has anybody noticed intenser dreams or lucid dreams after going to bed while the sun comes up? What is very similar, hitting repeated times the snooze button? It's kind of like advertisement in a movie, those seconds it takes to fumble with the alarm clock and put it on snooze. When it's over the dream continues to run and I experience it vividly.
I am now offline but am very curious if it's only me or if others noticed it, too?
3.4.8 Dream re-entry
One field study (Levitan, 1991b) explored the method of dream re-entry, which aims to enter the dream state directly from a short awakening after a dream. The dreamer is instructed to keep still and focus his or her mind on a particular activity like counting while falling asleep. Using this approach, one might enter the dream state without losing conscious awareness (this idea has ancient origins in the Tibetan dream yoga tradition, see e.g. Wangyal, 1998).
Two methods for focussing were used: “Counting” (which requires the participant to focus on 18 counting while falling asleep) and “Body” (focus on the own body while falling asleep). Dream re-entry appeared to be fairly successful (43 out of 191 attempts [23%] resulted in lucid dreams) with “Counting” method seemingly slightly more favourable than “Body” method. Notably, participants using “Counting” method were seemingly more likely to fail to return to sleep, whereas using “Body” method they were more likely to enter sleep without dream recall. However, the methodological quality of this study was low (5).
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