Wake-Back To Bed Technique (WBTB)
Wake yourself up after 4 to 6 hours of sleep, get out of bed and stay up for anywhere between a few minutes to an hour before going back to bed. It's preferable that you do something related to lucid dreaming during this time (such as reading about lucid dreaming), but it is not required.
This is best combined with other techniques; many people have amazing results with a MILD/WBTB combination. The
WBTB technique significantly increases your chance of a lucid dream, and using
MILD in conjunction with it puts you at good odds if you're planning
to sleep an hour or more after your WBTB session. However, you might need plenty
of sleep time and therefore you may only be able to use it on weekends.
If you feel from experiments with this technique that you are sleeping too deeply
in order to become lucid then instead try returning to sleep somewhere other than
where you usually sleep, e.g. on a couch, a different bed, or even on the floor;
or maybe change the way you sleep, e.g. try sleeping with a lighter blanket or
reversing the orientation of your body while in the bed (that is, swapping head and feet).
Do this in order to teach your body that these different surroundings mean you
want to have a more conscious sleep rather than a deeper sleep. In the beginning,
different surroundings will also make you more alert, which can heighten your
level of consciousness during sleep.
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