Many people often associate lucid dreaming with sleeping at night, or long bouts of slumber. This is because people mostly experience their vivid dreams at night when they go to bed. But lucid dreaming is not just done at this time of night or during a full 8 hour cycle of sleep. In fact, one of the most effective ways to have, and induce lucid dreaming doesn’t involve much time at all. It simply involves napping.
What makes napping different?
You might ask, “Why does napping make you lucid dream more than a full night’s sleep? It’s short and done during daytime!”
And the answers to that are: timing and the type of sleep.
At night, after a long tiring day, nighttime sleep takes a lot of time to achieve REM. As we have discussed before, REM is when most if not all dreaming occurs. When you fall asleep at night, it takes 90 minutes for your first REM cycle to begin. By the time you reach this point, you are coming out of a deep sleep, making it harder to be conscious of your dreams.
But a nap doesn’t work the same. A nap is different in that most naps usually start with a REM cycle immediately off the bat. On average, naps of up to 45 minutes may include REM sleep, which enhances creative thinking and boosts sensory processing. It is during this time that a dreamer performing a WILD or Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming will have higher chances at success.
It is this consistent REM state the brain is subjected to regularly that will improve your lucid dreaming chances at night.
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Napping can be made even better at lucid dream induction by two different things: the REM rebound effect, and proper nap times.
The REM rebound is a technique that hotwires the brain and manipulates the REM cycle, optimizing the mind for dreaming. Simply put, the method deprives you of a few REM cycles during long bouts of sleep and will improve the time you will spend in REM the next time you do sleep.
The way to do this is simple: wake up 2 hours early.
Sleeping for just 6 hours means you miss out on the last 2 REM cycles of the evening. The next time you fall asleep, the mind and body will compensate for this. Go about the day as normal, even if you feel a bit tired from the missing hours. And when it is time, take a nap.
While you can take a nap any time between the moment you wake up to the moment you sleep, the ideal time to take a nap is between 10am and 3pm. This places a few hours of being awake in between waking up in the morning and your nap, and your nap and sleeping at night.
Ideally, with these two pointers, your nap will start off with the missing REM cycles from your sleep almost off the bat, and if your lucid dream attempt fails during the nap, your chances at achieving lucidity at night will have increased.
Enhance your nap even further with a short binaural beats track for lucid dreaming ideal for napping, found here!
Starting with frequencies categorized in the Delta range, we start off by inducing a relaxing, soothing beat to help you drift into sleep but promotes an awareness at a subconscious level. The next collection of frequencies brings the sleeper into the Theta range, which is associated with deep relaxation and lucid dreaming. Here, the mind stays alert while the body sleeps. The frequencies in the Theta range are often used during meditation for inner awareness, which means that a person facilitates easy access to inner resources and creates space for inner peace and self-renewal.
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