Can depriving myself of sleep induce Vivid or Lucid dreams?

Question

I'm trying to have more vivid/longer dreams, and even Lucid Dreams. Does anyone know if starving myself of Z's can help me achieve vivid or lucid Dreams? I also haven't had a vivid dream in a long time, years! And does anyone know how vivid a Lucid Dream is???

Answer 1

If you deprive yourself of dream sleep (wake up every 90 min), it "stores" the dreams until it forces you into the REM period. It's known as REM pressure. If the REM pressure is particularly high, your dream sleep periods will be long, intense, and deep. Also, when our bodies are tired and we're deprived of dream sleep, it becomes more difficult to disturb or bump ourselves out of a lucid dream.

"Stop Sleeping Through Your Dreams" ~ Charles McPhee

Every 90 min. your body goes through a sleep cycle. You have dream sleep at the end of these cycles, increasing in length and vividness as the cycles progress. After about 4 cycles, it gradually lessens then starts over again. Waking before or during the strongest cycle then going back to sleep helps increase your chances of a lucid dream.

  A lucid dream can be more vivid than you can see in real life; just as it can be dull. Your mind is already creating the dream scene, it can sharpen it, melt it, anything. Most of my lucid dreams look no more vivid than real life (I also rarely do anything to increase clarity ie: rubbing my hands together); some have been dark as if it's late in the evening.

Answer 2

"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr. Olga Kharitidi,

"The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet,

"Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton,

http://www.dreamviews.com

http://www.lucidity.com are some good resources.

Meditation can help organize the psyche, which soulfield coherence in turn helps lucidity, both waking and sleeping.

http://www.easwaran.org is one helpful site.

Answer 3

No...the opposite is true....you need light sleep, REM sleep.

There was a device (years ago) that would measure your breathing to tell what part of the sleep cycle you were in and, at the right moment, wake you up just enough to encourage lucid dreaming....but now I can't find it!

Answer 4

I naturally lucid dream,that's over years of not having quality deep sleep.I sleep very lightly,this started years ago as a result of having to get up early for a paper round and in subsequent years as part of being a parent.I haven't slept properly for years although I love being able to lucid dream and in fact have amazing vivid dreams :-)

Edit: I've also had some disturbing lucid dreams which are so vivd their almost like a premonition.

Try cat naping,I have most of mine during daytime sleeping.

Answer 5

no but when I was having problems sleeping my doctor prescribed Ambien and when I stopped it my dreams were overflowing I think my dreams were hindered then suddenly a dam burst