Thread: Became lucid as I was waking up

all the time.. once I learned what a lucid dream was, this became one of the hardest obsticals for me. Its tough to maintain the balance of awareness in a dream and on the outside, though its very possible. When I was little, this sorta thing wasn't an issue, I slept deep, but would be aware I was asleep and dreaming.. so i'd wander around. Now i just spin out if i think of myself sleeping, so i try to avoid it.

this is an all to common thing for me. when I am LDing, I am total aware of what is happening around me. On ocasion, I do mix theese two things up, adn manifest my surroundings into my dreams. I think that my high level of awareness is what gives me the amount of control that I often have. If you would like to be more aware of your surroundings while asleep, have somebody come into you room and say your name, or any other trigger word that you predetermine. If you live alone, record a few people saying you name at like 10min intervals, leave yu TV on to a moderate level and play the tape. After a few times of this, you will, provided you have a decent level of dream recall, know what your dream was * and * what shows might have been playing during your dream. Also once you get this down, expect a high number of LD's. Good luck.

yes it happens to me. like this morning i found myself in my bedroom and suddonly felt my body and started to wake up, but at the same time i realized i was dreaming right before i heard a loud ringing and woke up.

I had this multiple times now... it's a bit annoying but I'm learning to turn it into something useful.

The first 3 or so times I realized that nothing I did made sense (in the dream) and felt my body... Then everything went black and I knew I was still asleep but didn't know what to do to get a dream. It quickly faded to a super-short false awakening, in which I usually do only one thing or see my room shorty, and then the real awakening. Those were shite. Some of them, I thought I actually awakened. The key point is to lie still and think of nothing when this happens, so you can get into SP like here:

Last night I managed to stay in the half-sleep state because again I lost the whole dream as I realized I dreamed when I felt something from my real body. So I just knew I was still sleeping and in dream state, again everything black. It was a sterile lucidity (stole that term ) for a couple of seconds, nothing happened, just conscious sleep. I stayed there and it went to SP, I felt vibrations and a heard a bunch of sounds. It felt interesting and good but i didn't manage to get into a dream (I tried to visualize one, doesn't work too good).
From what I've read, you can get a fabulous OBE-type lucid dream from SP with some practice. Instead of visualizing a new scene, one should spin the dream body out of bed. But I guess it's different for everybody.


Anyway, I sugest that anyone who isn't afraid of SP and feels his dreams immediately fading as he realizes he's dreaming, and then feels his real body, should try to enter SP and directly WILD/OBE from there.

On a sidenote, if you're not afraid of SP and just enjoy the moment, nothing like halluscinations, evil presences etc. should be experienced. All of the NEGATIVE things that people experience in SP are due to their fear which makes your brain interpret the incapacity to move as an evil attack on your body. The half-dream state creates the halluscinations and the fear multiplies. So don't even try to move and just be aware of the fact that no matter when happens, you real body is breathing and working regularly because it is subconsciously controlled. Whatever your body feels like is actually just a completely outdated and distorted afterimage.

i would add, if you do find yourself in a very scary SP. just take very deep breaths and youll break out of it in a split second.

Just a few nights ago something kind of similar happened to me. In my dream, I was trying to photograph something outside. I was having difficulties with the camera. Just as I was finally about to take the picture, my mom knocked on the door to wake me. Still in my dream, I shouted, "hang on!" hoping she would hear me in real life. I took the picture, then woke myself up. She said later that she did hear me say "hang on".
I must have been right on the verge of dreaming and reality. It was very unusual to be able to control both my waking self and my dreaming self simultaneously.

This literally just happened to me.

I had been sleeping for less than 20mins.

I need to figure out how to take being concious that I am dreaming in my stride, instead of being afriad of being unable to move my body.

I to have this. I don't wake up lucid. It's just that as I'm waking up I become lucid, probably because my consciousness and my logic area of my brain is turning on. I can never seems to stop the process since I'm already waking.

This has been the case with me so far, in my three LDs. I am absolutely certain that in my very first LD, I was able to feel myself in bed, and even wiggle a finger. I think I only became lucid, because I was already on the verge of waking anyway. I think it was less noticeable by the third, but I am trying to tune it out.