Originally Posted by ezzolucid
I GUESS BEING AWARE IN NON REM IS EXACTLY THE SAME FEELING AS BEING AWAKE?! :-/
oops excuse the caps - damn cap lock :-)
Well, no, it really isn't.
Aside from the fact that, consciously speaking, lucidity in general "feels" the same as being awake, being aware in NREM is very different from lying awake in your bed waiting to go to sleep.
Because you are asleep in NREM, connections to sensory input have been cut off or reduced, so you likely will not feel, say, the pressure of your sheets or the weight of your body on your bed (but you can, as you discovered, hear yourself snore, because hearing is "turned on" during sleep). Also, NREM sleep tends to include reduced brain activity, especially in early sleep stages, so, should you be aware, your presence might feel a bit "odd," your thoughts a bit more, well, call it "calm, or "simplified." Both of these things are very different from being awake, by any measure. Also, and of course, the signature signal that you are aware in NREM is your presence in the fabled Void... and this presence is very, very different from lying in bed, awake, with your eyes closed. Finally, dreaming can occur during NREM, though the imagery tends to be much simpler and more thought-based, if that makes any sense.
All that said, there really is no need to wonder or worry about being asleep should the question arise. Whether you are still awake or in NREM, your dream is still just around the corner. Instead of concerning yourself or doing tests to judge whether you are asleep or awake, why not just enjoy the peaceful moment, and then go back to focusing on your dream? If you are awake, you will fall asleep eventually, and your dream will come; if you are asleep and in NREM, your dream will come. Either way you win...unless you get distracted by concerns about your state, in which case you lose, by either waking up for real or by losing focus and allowing lucidity to dissipate. According to your OP you seemed to already be doing this; perhaps you had the right idea in the first place?
So has anyone else had this awareness in Nrem?
Sure.
I started a more extensive discussion a while back on a thread called Exploring Delta Sleep, though you might already be aware of that. If not, you might want to check it out. [EDIT: Just noticed that Gab said the same thing w/link above... oops!]
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