Thread: WHAT kind of LUCID is this????

Hey guys!

Last nite, i had a very long lucid...but i have no idea what kind it was....
I went to bed....slept for 4 hours....woke up.....

I remember dreaming I gave one of my co-workers a "mash potato sandwich"......thats all i could remember...
SO...

gave myself a mantra according to what i last remembered dreaming....
then visualized myself becoming lucid while giving him the sandwich

went to the bathroom, smoked a cigarette....got back in bed....
tried the MILD method....but it was keeping me awake.....so i said screw it...
relaxed myself.......finally went to sleep.....

i dont know what point i finally fell asleep, but i didnt have the same dream....i never saw my co-worker, no sandwich...nothing.
i went straight into a LUCID DREAM.......

what do you call this??? i didnt WILD, no SSILD, no DILD, DEILD, and my MILD attempt was aborted.....

so what do you call this when you go to sleep str8 in to a lucid dream?

It was a MILD. You aborted the technique but by the point you aborted it, the intention to lucid dream was strong enough that you remembered it while you were dreaming. Given the length of the dream, you probably forgot the point at which you remembered your intention to become lucid, which was most likely shortly after the dream started. This gives you the impression that you slept straight into the dream, which you didn't technically because your self awareness was lost at the moment you feel asleep. If you kept that self awareness it would have been a WILD.

Originally Posted by dolphin

It was a MILD. You aborted the technique but by the point you aborted it, the intention to lucid dream was strong enough that you remembered it while you were dreaming. Given the length of the dream, you probably forgot the point at which you remembered your intention to become lucid, which was most likely shortly after the dream started. This gives you the impression that you slept straight into the dream, which you didn't technically because your self awareness was lost at the moment you feel asleep. If you kept that self awareness it would have been a WILD.

wow.....thanks DOLPHIN

definitely MILD

Yup, that was a MILD indeed.

You did not really aborted it. A MILD is exactly what you did. If you planned to do dream incubation then you could say you "somewhat" aborted it (if you want to fall asleep with the very last thought of said dream) So great job!