All Night Awareness

**Patience108** · 12-28-2015 06:36 PM

Yes VagalTone knowing all the different "names" or "words" for things can be quite confusing and possibly a bit paralizing as FM says above ...if one doesn't really know what exactly it is that one is doing because one hasn't really understood or touched on the inner/true/basic meaning of the word..
Words being pointers and all that...

I think that's why I came to like very much the way Sageous and others speak of ' self awareness' - it is plane English to me so that when one ponders its meaning it can go as simply and deeply as need be but it's still what it is ( giving lots of avenues of exploration if so wished without going too far off track...) Looking at the words one really can keep in simple

' self ' - me, here, now..
...what I am doing,seeing, feeling etc etc

' awareness' - experiencing of that ' self ' ...
From different angles ; people directly affected my my actions right now or earlier or even something that I am going to be part of very soon in the future...how does it feel to be this ' me ' and effect the world in the way I do ( ofcourse this has potential to go in to simple dream questions too like - ' is this a dream feeling right now? And how do I know this is a dream?'

Also 'memory' - where Dolphin takes us on the next stop

- this being the rememberance of that very self awareness ...that's the definition I personally feel most comfortable wit ...and ofcourse rememberance of the ' dream' and ' dream like state ' as dolphin points out is really important ...

All in all I think the fundementals are being discussed here nicely

**dolphin** · 12-28-2015 09:01 PM

I'm glad you enjoy it Patience108, but I think I could do better...

I created another new thread. This one, I found the balance between awareness and reflection/memory.

http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...ml#post2182710

Thanks FryingMan and Sageous for inspiring me!

I'm super happy with this one. The other two threads could be closed if it's too much of a hassle.

**Queen Zukin** · 12-30-2015 04:36 AM

Kestrel and I are starting this tonight. I have a question.

Most nights, in order to get to sleep, I count up from 0 and usually fall asleep at around 70, taking breaths without counting in between each number. Right before I pass on to sleep, I notice a lot that my awareness fades in and out, but I am never able to recognize exactly when this is happening - only after. How do you counter this?

**dolphin** · 12-30-2015 05:15 AM

You don't have to counter this. Awareness fading in and out is a normal part of falling sleep. You're going to lose awareness when you go unconscious, anyway, so this is nothing to worry about.

Only be concerned with what you can control when you are conscious, both while falling asleep and while in a dream. Keep in mind that one of those times your awareness fades out while falling asleep, when it fades back in, you'll be in a dream. Try your best. Good luck!

**FryingMan** · 01-11-2016 12:20 PM

I've been turning up the heat on getting lucid again for the last few days during a long dry spell. I felt pretty sure yesterday evening that I would be lucid.

I felt quite tired before bed, but I found that I had an activated awareness that wouldn't allow me to (completely?) fall asleep. I felt like I was partially awake through most of the night. I slipped into some short early dreams which I became immediately aware of after they finished (my first REM cycles of the night?). Many of my dreams began in bed or were related to bed and/or sleeping. In an early dream, I was annoyed at my mother for talking to me because I was trying to sleep (!).

I got lucid twice, one a very long (for me, 5-10 minutes), multi-scene, high awareness TOTM LD, followed by a transition to a missed FA (I was aware, in bed, but leery of opening my eyes for fear of waking up, and a scene very suddenly snapped into vision and I lost lucidity for a minute but regained it for a second short DILD). I got up and checked the time, it was 7 hours after bedtime (who knows how much sleep, perhaps only a few hours?)

After reviewing the LDs for a while to make sure they were firmly in my memory, I "relaxed" and fell asleep for a few more hours and had more dreams, some vivid scenes, but not approaching lucidity.

So it felt a lot like a (partially) unintentional ANA night. Loved the lucids, but I did not like the "awake all night" impression.

**itsok** · 01-12-2016 10:31 PM

I have a question
I did the ssild tech on the previous night ,i woke up naturally more times the night,and in these awakenings i started the ssild.Every time i felt my legs very nervous,im sure u know whats im talking about, it was very uncomfortable, anyway i did the ssild but after couple of mins a gave up, i felt so hard i have to roll the other side

Maybe was i near to the SP(it wss very uncomf, i had to move my body, i couldnt concentrate for anything else, my legs was sooo nervous.