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Holding A Stone To Stay Awake During Cycles
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Okay, so I'm someone who falls asleep really fast. I've never made it through a single long cycle without zzzzzzzzz'ing off.
CosmicI suggested I try doing the cycles in an uncomfortable position to stay awake. I was planning on doing that last night but when the time came (3am to be precise) I couldn't find a position that was more uncomfortable than sleeping in my car. I do a lot of all night driving for work, to save money on hotels, and I've gotten into the habit of pulling over and dropping instantly into sleep for 2 minute car-naps to reset my circadian rhythms.
Then I noticed a small beach stone on my bedside table and decided to try holding it in my hand, with my hand hanging over the side of the bed, as a way to stay awake during the long cycles. It worked.
I didn't have lucid dream but I did experience something pretty trippy. It was like watching an instant replay of my brain falling asleep, but in slow motion. All that stuff I usually miss. A constant shuttling back and forth of being conscious of myself in bed, holding a stone, and being a full emotional participant of an instantly created dream scene, or hearing voices, or feeling that my body was smaller, or more narrow, or that my field of vision behind my closed eyes was a tunnel vision. And then back to being in bed with that stone.
I had a lot of intense dreams and woke up with that slightly drugged feeling I get when I use Galantamine. Like my body was off-rhythm.
It was all very interesting and I'm going to try again tonight.
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Will do!
No lucid dreams last night, but lots of intense dreams where it should have been sooo obvious I was dreaming. I'm going to double down on RC's during the day. Hopefully my dreaming brain will take note.
The thing that amazes me about the holding-the-stone method is how quickly I go from being consciously aware, in bed, to being another version of me in another version of reality with no concept that I'd just slipped into a dream. And then how quickly I come back to myself in bed. It's as fast as flicking on and off a switch.
Every time I come back to myself I think something like: I can't believe I forgot I'm really in bed. Next time I will absolutely remember. And an instant later I'm gone again.
I may try something like caffeine or choline to ramp up my conscious awareness.
Hmmm. I think I can try this. I have practiced "phantom wiggling" before so I get the concept.
I have also, during my daytime RC's started replacing "Am I dreaming?" with "I AM dreaming!" and visualizing myself as a tiny version of myself composed of thoughts, standing inside a giant dome that is actually the inside of my head, asleep on my bed.
Sort of like a Peter Max poster.
Thank you for all your encouragement. :)
I had a one second lucid dream last night. For an instant I was standing somewhere, and my hand brushed against something, and then I was back in bed holding that stone.