Could I use this for inducing a lucid dream?

**ElizaLS** · 06-04-2011 02:15 PM

Sometimes, when I'm tired and I close my eyes, I don't exactly go to sleep, but I seem to have some sort of dream. For example, once I closed my eyes on the bus, and after about ten minutes, I was kind of in one of those "dreams." Curious, I tried to feel something, but I couldn't feel a thing. However, I could hear sound, but it felt distant, like a song that's stuck in your head. It felt more like a daydream then a dream, but it was too vivid and real for a daydream. Often I forget where I am in real life in these things. Has anyone ever had a similar experience, and could I use this to my advantage in lucid dreaming?

**Avalanche** · 06-04-2011 03:16 PM

I think you are just very very good at zoning out and daydreaming. What you described was basically a day dream, but with a lot more vividness. What I mean is you are day dreaming, but you are able to zone yourself out more and forget the world better than other people when they day dream.

I can sort of do what you said, but it never really lasts that long, and its not as deep.

Sorry, but I can't really see how this can be better than other methods. Stick to what works for you, or if you really want, take some time out to experiment with it.

**faceonmars** · 06-04-2011 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by ElizaLS

Sometimes, when I'm tired and I close my eyes, I don't exactly go to sleep, but I seem to have some sort of dream. It felt more like a daydream then a dream, but it was too vivid and real for a daydream. Often I forget where I am in real life in these things. Has anyone ever had a similar experience, and could I use this to my advantage in lucid dreaming?

The brain transitions from Alpha (relaxed) to Theta (daydreaming) to Delta (deep sleep) during the sleep process. You were in a Theta brainwave state. In this state you can have non-REM dreams. This is an excellent starting point to go lucid. While this LD would be, by constraints, a short one... it can be accomplished.

**Avalanche** · 06-04-2011 05:59 PM

It can be accomplished? Wow, well I never said I was an expert, but I didn't know you could technically fall asleep and dream while in class or on a bus.

**Erii** · 06-04-2011 10:54 PM

Well, in the stages of sleep, there is a point where your mind literally checks to see if you are in a proper environment or safe to fall asleep
sometimes this fails though
when I fall asleep and I experience dreams but I am still awake, you know when your thoughts shift from random things, and then you can't remember what you were just thinking of? it was probably something like that
I doubt you were actually in a sleep phase yet, but you were probably deep in a daydream
I use these little thoughts (when I'm drifting to sleep) before bed to help me get lucid, by changing my train of thought to lucidity, then letting it drift again

**ElizaLS** · 06-05-2011 02:03 PM

So theoretically I could use this. I tried it tonight, but I just fell asleep. I did have a lucid dream, though, but I doubt it had anything to do with it.