In the majority of cases, sleep deprivation is a direct negative effect of a busy modern lifestyle. The most common culprit is the dreaded alarm clock; in my experience waking up to an alarm is one of the worst lucidity thieves. They snatch the final hours of REM-packed sleep we might otherwise enjoy.
Other causes of sleep deprivation are shift work, jet lag, crying babies and insomnia to name a few. It's not as if we choose to live this way - it just happens. And though a sleepless zombie may well glean the odd lucid dream during times of REM rebound, in the big picture it really hurts your lucid dreaming efforts. So what can you do?
Solution - The obvious solution is easy to say - yet extremely difficult to implement: simply, sleep more. The more you sleep, the more dream time you rack up and the more opportunities you have to become lucid. In addition, since REM stages are prolonged in the second half of the night, by sleeping just an hour or two extra, you can drastically increase your overall REM time.
If sleeping continuously for an eight-hour period is simply impossible in your current lifestyle, consider this alternative.
Polyphasic sleep means breaking your daily sleep into three or more separate blocks. It is common in many animals and is thought to be the ancestral sleep state for mammals (although, normally simians are monophasic). This napping approach is recommended as a last resort by the US military and the Italian Air Force, who even found that "total sleep time was substantially reduced as compared to the usual 7
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