The Tools Of A Dreamer

Tools Of A Dreamer

For someone who is not a natural dreamer, tools and exercises are needed...

16-5-8 Lex sets alarms with low volume all night. One every thirty minutes. It is the shortcut to remember dreams and it worked. More than four per night he had noticed, but it is hard to do not forget them. "I journal is needed if you want to be a oneironaut" he is telling to himself.

The guy already had some lucid dreams but one in a blue moon. Now he wants to have them more frequently.

16-5-17 Nine days and just blurry dreams because Lex didn't start a journal. "Write down your dreams." He keeps telling to himself. But a journal is not easy when you have to write them seconds after you wake up. And it is even harder when you are having lack of sleeping. The question is where is this sleepiness coming from? Is it because Lex's busy live and he is just tired?, or perhaps, the alarms every 30 minutes are interrupting an important 90 minutes sleep cycle?

After some research, Lex discovers that the sleep cycle was, in deed, interrupting the Delta stage where the body is being restored while sleeping. "My body is not restarting!" He realizes. The alarms with low volume are supposedly to do not interrupt the Delta stage, the heaviest sleeping time, and just to wake you up if you are during the lightest stage. But somehow, Lex is feeling too tired. Therefore, he decides to change the alarms from every 30 minutes to the every 90 minutes. And see what happends.

Some other important questions come to Lex's mind. If REM is the last stage of  the sleep cycle happening in the last 30 minutes of the 90 minutes cicle (where the common dream and lucid dreams happen),  Why I was remembering lots of dreams if I was sleeping just the first 30 minutes? What is the purpose of these dreams? Aren't these the same as those in REM stage? Are we capable to be enough conscious to have a lucid dream during these dreams or just in REM stage?