Amount of Sleep

[runlola]

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[interception]

Well, how much do you normally sleep?

Maybe you slept through a more complete personal cycle that time. You know, not too much or too little sleep. Thus enabling your conscious and subconscious mind to "synchronize" better or... download your shadow memories better or.... whatever. Something like that maybe?
   

[interception]

Having interupted sleep only serves to fragment my dream memories even more... and with every cycle it seems to make me less and less lucid in dreams. Doesn't work for me either.

[jub jub]

Lola,

Has keeping a journal helped you to have more frequent OBE's?

[David Warner]

RunLola,

You might have seen some of my posts talking about Sleep duration on statistics. I've found that the amount of sleep the day before has made a difference with projecting. Here's live example of what I've tracked for the last 1.5yrs now. You can also vist my web site and review the excel spreadsheet which gives you a bigger picture.

Sleep Duration Stats  Sub-Total

1 hour            0
2 hours          0
3 hours          1
4 hours          3
5 hours          4
6 hours          8
7 hours          20
8 hours          18
9 hours          9
10 hours        4
11 hours         1
12 hours         0

Now, you can see the amount of sleep the day before were 7-8hrs that gave me success with projecting the day after. Also, the days and times of the experiences were important too. Here's the live data:

WeekDay Statistics    Sub-Total
   
Sunday                  18
Monday                  12
Tuesday                 13
Wednesday             7
Thursday               13
Friday                    17
Saturday                 7
   
   
   
Time Statistics     Sub-Total
   
Morning   
12:00 AM - 12:59 AM       0
1:00 AM - 1:59 AM          0
2:00 AM - 2:59 AM          4
3:00 AM - 3:59 AM          10
4:00 AM - 4:59 AM          1
5:00 AM - 5:59 AM          4
6:00 AM - 6:59 AM          3
7:00 AM - 7:59 AM          3
8:00 AM - 8:59 AM          7
9:00 AM - 9:59 AM          13
10:00 AM - 10:59 AM       13
11:00 AM - 11:59 AM       14
   
Afternoon   
12:00 PM - 12:59 PM      11
1:00 PM - 1:59 PM          4
2:00 PM - 2:59 PM          1
3:00 PM - 3:59 PM          0
4:00 PM - 4:59 PM          3
5:00 PM - 5:59 PM          0
6:00 PM - 6:59 PM          0
7:00 PM - 7:59 PM          2
8:00 PM - 8:59 PM          1
9:00 PM - 9:59 PM          0
10:00 PM - 10:59 PM       0
11:00 PM - 11:59 PM       0


I honestly think if people here would start tracking their sleep schedule, amount, start/end times, days they projected it would unlock a good portion of "how and why" about astral projection. Food didn't seem to matter - if it was a chocolate chip cookie, prime-rib, or steak no cause and effect would produce the obe.

Hope this helps!

Tvos

ps. i was hoping that starbucks frapacino was the key ingriedient to projecting..

[CFTraveler]

I have found that I project more on days that I sleep as much as I want- on days I don't have to get up at any time- I end up projecting in the am and when I come back I feel drained and in a sort of coma- partly because of the quality of the projection but I believe that once I've slept too much my body goes into this comatose half here/half somewhere else state that is really hard to get out of but really easy to project over and over again in one morning.

[MisterJingo]

I have found that I project more on days that I sleep as much as I want- on days I don't have to get up at any time- I end up projecting in the am and when I come back I feel drained and in a sort of coma- partly because of the quality of the projection but I believe that once I've slept too much my body goes into this comatose half here/half somewhere else state that is really hard to get out of but really easy to project over and over again in one morning.

I find this too. I usually get 4-7 hours sleep a night, but when I can get as much as I want, I get a lot more paralysis and consequently more projections. I call such occasions oversleeping . One problem i do face is that getting more sleep than i'm used to can give me headaches or makes me feel a bit out of it during the day. Perhaps i'm used to existing in a sleep deprived state, so a normal amount feels weird to me now .

[David Warner]

Runlola,

I've found the opposite about having sleep durations to have longer experiences. Since all my experience occur during the late afternoon, normally I was up earlier and decided to take a nap or head back to bed to resume sleep.

tvos