 Today we're going to be talking about a new technique that I haven't covered before called the Cat Technique, Cat Method, the Cycle Adjustment Technique, and as the name suggests this is going to involve slightly changing your sleep pattern in order to have looted dreams at a time in the night where you're most likely to have them, and it works by sort of tricking your mind and it plays into your circadian rhythm, which is the way you naturally fall asleep based on sunlight and darkness. So let's just get into it, this technique was created by somebody called Daniel Love which if you don't know, he's a very prolific lucid dreamer, he's released a book or two on the subject and he has his own website and he's doing all sorts of really good stuff for the lucid dreaming community, and he sort of made this technique mainly for beginners because it seems to work really reliably even if you haven't had success with other techniques. So what I'm going to do I'm going to put a link to his book in the description which you can check out later, but so for now let's just get right into the technique and explain how it works. So it's a two-step process and firstly I should mention that this sort of works in tandem with your reality checks and writing your dreams down with, they sort of go with every technique so they're sort of standard, they're like the foundations you need to have for any given technique to have the best chance of success, right? So if you're going to try this make sure you're doing the basic stuff first. So the first step is you're going to reset your natural circadian rhythm or your body clock and the way you do this is that you set a wake-up time, let's say 8am or let's say 6.30am and that's going to make sense with an example in a minute so 6.30am you're going to wake up at 6.30 in the morning every single day for a week or two and when I say a week or two I don't mean you can miss a day, I mean like every single day for the two weeks don't don't cheat on that because it won't you know if you cheat you won't be able to make it work later on. So you're going to set your alarm for 6.30 in the morning, get up at exactly the same time every day and after a couple of weeks depends you know each person will take a different amount of time but it's going to take a week or two you'll find that you naturally start subconsciously getting ready to wake up at that time and that's how this technique works you're going to trick your body so your body will get used to the wake-up time of 6.30 and at that time or just before that time you're going to start automatically producing these wake-up hormones which are these hormones your body produces just before you normally wake up to sort of raise your consciousness out of sleep and getting ready for the waking day right so it prepares for this prepares to wake you up before you actually wake up so at the time you're going to normally do that it's 6.30 you're going to do that for a week or two and then you're going to suddenly switch and you're going to have one you're going to do one day waking up at 6.30 then the next day waking up later at 8 a.m then the next day 6.30 then 8 a.m and you're going to switch so that each day you're waking up at a different time so you're going to alternate 6.30 8 6.30 8 and the reason it's 90 minutes apart is because that's a sleep cycle that's the length of the average sleep cycle and what this is going to do is it's going to make sure that when you're just about to wake up your your mind is going to be ready to wake up so you're going to have to wake up hormones going through your body but the alarm won't go off every other day so you're sort of tricking your body so it's secreting these hormones to get ready to wake you up but the alarm doesn't go off on every other day and what that means is that you enter a state where you've had your deep sleep you you're in the stages of the morning where you're having your REM sleep a lot but the alarm doesn't go off but you've got all these hormones getting ready to wake you up which increase the chances of you becoming lucid and that's how the technique works basically so the important part with this is you need to expect always to wake up at the earlier time so you need to every time you go to bed you need to expect the alarm to go off a half six even though it's not going to go off a half six every other day right so that's how it works now a few tips on this is firstly you should make sure that you reset the this the cycle I guess you could say this the pattern every couple of months because otherwise the body will get used to the alternate time and you'll find that you your body and your mind are fairly smart right so eventually they're going to get your mind's going to get used to you alternating the wake up times and it's going to start producing the wake up hormones before the earlier time and before the later time so you need to reset the cycle every two months by going back to doing a week or two of the same time so that's it pretty much if you get tired during doing this technique if you find that you you don't have energy during the day or you're finding it's hard to like go through the whole day without having a nap then maybe just give it a break for a month or two because obviously some people don't react well to changing their sleep to cycle every other day it's not technically it's not natural but if you want to lose a dream this is a great technique it's going to work it's very effective for a beginner and yeah I've had great success with this I love it so anyway like I said Daniel Love created this technique go and check his book in the description up a link there and if you haven't already subscribed please like the video subscribe and I'll see you next time