02-02-2014, 07:31 AM
About the not eating or drinking before bed thing. I say this because the way it was explained to me is that during REM your brain will send a signal to each part of your body to repair it. The first thing it sends a signal to is your liver and if the liver is busy processing things out of the blood stream it will send a cancel signal to the brain which will break REM and wakes you up. Thats why drinking alcohol before bed is a really bad idea. It makes you fall alseep faster but the sleep you get on it is practically worthless.
Drinking water is tricky unless you've worked out exactly how much water you can drink with out the need to wake up and go to the bathroom. Most of my knowledge on the subject is from researching lucid dreaming and how to induce it so it pertains to maximizing REM. I've practiced lucid dreaming for over a year now and its helped me understand how to control my own sleep patterns a great deal. Id recommend it to anyone for that reason alone. Beside the fact that lucid dreaming is friggen awesome!
Drinking water is tricky unless you've worked out exactly how much water you can drink with out the need to wake up and go to the bathroom. Most of my knowledge on the subject is from researching lucid dreaming and how to induce it so it pertains to maximizing REM. I've practiced lucid dreaming for over a year now and its helped me understand how to control my own sleep patterns a great deal. Id recommend it to anyone for that reason alone. Beside the fact that lucid dreaming is friggen awesome!