Sleeping posture.
I have noted that the way sleep and I have learned to operate is this.
I lie down in bed, fall asleep. Wake back up. Fall deeper. Wake back up. little NREM bursts of information and passive hypnagogia, generally speaking. There is never a direct transition into REM though.
After one of these wakings up I get tired of WILDing and start tossing and turning like crazy which:
A-ruins chances for conscious WILD
B-is bad for my posture.
If anyone wants very disciplined but passively easy lucidity, and is a light sleeper like I, this is what I would recommend.
Lie down on your back. Do not roll over at all! You can stretch and flex and such, but don’t roll over! That’s it.
If you find yourself wanting to roll over, that means you are awake what kind of sleep did you just come out of?
If you really feel that rolling over is necessary get up and walk around and pass a little bit of time, because it means you’re wide awake and have gotten lots of NREM sleep in.
then
go back and lie on your back again and fall asleep.
this is how i’m wired for it to work, eventually there being a point where i find myself having an OBE or lucid.
But it requires discipline to get up and be patient instead of rolling over and losing consciousness for the rest of the night.
But to me it’s all about:
chaining. this is what I’ve almost always done to have the best lucidity.
and
chaining is simply a refusal to move after you have woken up!
if you discipline yourself to have one WILD posture such as on the back, and discipline yourself that you would rather get up and get a drink of water and sit for a while than ever sleep in another posture, you should eventually find yourself consciously transitioning into all REM periods, and just consciously dozing in all NREM periods.
consequently it is substantially easier to refuse to move just in the mornings, but if you have been moving all night long the chaining posture may be painful, usually when I’m “REM surfing” and extending lucidity I find that my body is naturally in unhealthy positions from shifting around all night long.