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My understanding is that dreaming only occurs during REM and that REM occurs around 90 minutes after sleep onset and then we go through a number of sleep cycles during the night with the REM stage increasing towards the end of the night (or from approx 3am onwards - depending on when you went to bed). So my question is this, why on earth can I enter a lucid dream consciously after going straight to bed? I shouldn't even be in REM sleep. I have gone to bed at say 10pm, relax and then find my b...

I'd like to try something as a bit of an experiment. Would like to form a small circle of oneironauts who will commit to sharing dream experiences (lucid and non-lucid) over a period of say a few months.

If, for instance there are 4 participants I would suggest that the group take turns being the one to share their dream/s on one particular night -- one person per week.

So on every Sunday the group could expect to hear from Person A. Then next week it is Person B's turn, and so on.
It puts a lit...

After three months of learning and trying day and night, I have not reached the point of experiencing lucidity myself. But I maintain the positive fighting spirit. Maybe you can help me makng a next step forward.

I seem to be stuck in step 1: poor dream recall. I come from zero dream recall…
After all my efforts I now squeeze out 3-4 small dreamfragments per week. And yet I seem to repeatedly take all the steps that I read in all the instructions and in the responses that I read on @raghav ‘s q...