CAT (cycle adjustment technique) Tutorial

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[The Littlest Leaf Dragon]

I would say put a Hide/Show link to it (like the spoiler block here) on the tutorial page for CAT.  The original was posted on the novadreamer forums, and no longer exists.  Good summary, I understood everything without having to read the article, and then the article served to reinforce things for me.  Once I get my sleep schedule sorted out, I'll have to give this a try.

[pj]

Good summary!

I think we should put the summary up front in the tutorials too, and link back here to the article in the forums.

Sound reasonable?

[Sunshine]

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[DrTechnical]

Nice summary. very clear. Actually, I had never heard about this technique before. Seems to me like you give up even more sleep than just doing a WBTB though. You're losing 90 minutes a pop on a number of consecutive days. Ouch!

[pj]

The CAT is out of the bag and posted!

http://mortalmist.com/cat.html
http://mortalmist.com/cat.php

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[pj]

Ok - well, we tried.

I did as mentioned; posted your summary up front with a link to the thread here where the full article is.  It IS explicitly available to non-profits, and we are most certainly that.  We're negative profit!

[DrTechnical]

I have one thing to offer here. I have actually been thinking about this technique a bit.

Historically, I've done lots of lucid attempts using WBTB at the time I would otherwise be waking.

For example, on a work day with a morning workout, I would rise at 4:00. And stay up of course.

On a weeday lucid attempt, I would rise at 3:00 and go back to bed around 4:00. It is interesting that the 4-5 am hour would normally be used in an alert and awake manner. But on the lucid dream attempts I was trying to sleep during that time where my brain was trained to be awake. Hmmm.

[pj]

Interesting observation.  Perhaps this has something to do with why I get lucid during naps?  That is, after all, normal "alert time".

[The Littlest Leaf Dragon]

This could also potentially be used with WBTB.  I slept through WBTB this morning after keeping it religiously M-W-F for a few weeks now, and I had a lucid while I should have been in WBTB.  I've decided to switch to T-R-S so as not to lose 1/3 of my WBTB nights for the week, so I'll see if this pans out at all.

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[Heidiho775]

The CAT technique is very interessting. In Germany it was introduced by Simon Rausch in his lucid Dreaming panel. He describes the technique very well.