omg Andrew Holecek has a new book on dark retreat — using total darkness to illuminate the light of your own mind. Dreams. Lucid dreams. This is going to be gold. 🖤✨ 👇👇

🌙 Happy April Fools’ Day, especially to those who💙 lucid dreaming! Your dreaming brain fools you every night. It fabricates entire worlds, convinces you they’re real, and you fall for it every time. Strange characters and happenings, impossible physics… And you just [1/4)

And you just… go along with it. It’s one big cosmic joke that runs every night without fail. Unless you get lucid…. The moment you recognize you’re dreaming, the illusion loses its power. You’re no longer the unsuspecting target. 🎯 Now you’re in on it! [2/4]

Should you do wake-back-to-bed (WBTB) after your 3rd or 4th REM period? Research has looked at both—and both can be effective for lucid dreaming. What’s missing is a discussion of who each timing works best for. Individual factors like age and insomnia-proneness likely matter. 💫 Here’s my take: (1/3)

WBTB timing isn’t one-size-fits-all. • Younger sleepers (who need more total sleep) often do best waking after the 4th REM period—the timing used in most college-aged research samples. • Older or insomnia-prone sleepers often get better results after the 3rd REM period, when enough REM and sleep pressure is still available. 💫(2/3)