Wake Back To Bed:
Lucid Dreams with WBTB

Wake Back To Bed, or the WBTB method, is a variation on the Cycle Adjustment Technique with one key difference: the results are immediate. You can use this method every day of the week, or just on weekends - it's up to you. The more you practice this lucid dreaming technique, the more lucid dreams you will have.

This method is a great way for beginners to learn how to have lucid dreams. Many report multiple conscious dreams using the WBTB method, with some lasting over an hour. So if you want to control your dreams but don't give this method a go... you would have to be crazy!

How The WBTB Method Works

Wake Back To Bed is an easy way to learn how to have lucid dreams that really works. But why?

First, because you stimulate your conscious brain at a time you would normally be experiencing REM sleep. This equates to consciousness in dreams. Second, when you do return to sleep, you will dive straight into REM sleep from a highly conscious state, also inducing multiple dreams one after another.

Put the two together and you have a far greater chance of becoming lucid. I have tried the Wake Back To Bed technique with consistent results. In fact, I do it inadvertently most days; I wake up at 6am to let the dog out, stay conscious for a few minutes and then fall asleep again while practicing the MILD lucid dreaming technique. I can spend the next two hours phasing in and out of lucidity. Remember, the longer you stay up, the more your conscious brain will surface, so don't go back to bed for at least 20 minutes in the early days.

An Easy Lucid Dreaming Technique

If you really want to learn how to have lucid dreams, the WBTB method isn't much hardship. It can work even if you don't perform any visualizations or mediation (although this will increase your chances of lucidity).

Note that if you normally only sleep for six hours, reduce your sleep time even more (say, to four hours). The idea is to temporarily delay your regular REM sleep. When you fall asleep again, you will dive straight into REM sleep, an essential part of a normal sleep cycle.

So practice Wake Back To Bed whenever you get the chance - especially if you don't have any time pressures at weekends - and learn how to have lucid dreams in as little as a few days. (Like the WBTB method? Also try the CAT technique.)

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