Using a lucid dream timer to wake up and fall asleep over and over in the early morning (around 4:30 AM) was one of the single most important secrets I found for having lots and lots of OBEs.

This is a method that works based on Dr Albert Taylor’s wake back to bed method. Dr Taylor is a former NASA engineer who wrote A Guide to Out-of-Body Experiences and the Wonders Beyond

The lucid dream timer method also uses research by Dr. Stephen LaBerge of The Lucidity Institute which says that staying up for an hour before bed increases lucidity. I’ve found that for myself and the people I’ve helped have lucid dreams that 45 minutes works a bit better than an hour because it makes it easier to fall asleep again and not fall too deeply asleep that you don’t become lucid.

The the way the lucid dream timer method works is you wake up in the early morning, stay up for about 45 minutes and then go back to sleep. You set the timer to beep every few minutes so that you wake up, fall asleep, wake up, fall asleep over and over again.

This causes you to hover more and more closely on the awake asleep threshold so that eventually your mind is above the thresold and your body is below it. This cause you to enter “mind awake/body asleep” or waking sleep paralysis

Once you’ve done that you can turn sleep paralysis into an OBE using a OBE exit method