Originally Posted by
Sageous
No, it isn't.
A DEILD is a WILD transition, because it happens without loss of waking-life self-awareness. A DEILD literally cannot be a DILD, period. It is advice like that that serves to deeply confuse novices looking to learn about DEILD for perhaps the first time... which was my point. [EDIT: and I notice that point was confirmed by Princessflare's response]
Your experience seems unusual, Occipitalred, and your skills are advanced, but what you describe is an actual DEILD, albeit an unusual one, because your waking-life self-awareness is present throughout the transition -- post-hairpull, of course -- and, as you said, you were still dreaming throughout (even if there were no visuals). Yes, you lost track of Self for a moment, but you were aware and dreaming during the moments of approaching wakefulness and return to sleep. So, it was a DILD followed quickly by a DEILD... two separate transitions in a short period of time. As you said, remembering your dreams during a dream is still a dream.
Yes, DEILD's certainly will follow, or emerge from DILD's or WILDs, because it really helps/you need to be lucid when you sense an awakening, and DILD and WILD, being the only two types of LD transitions, will probably have occurred before the exit dream. And yes again, DILD's are generally what happens when you become aware during a false awakening -- but the DEILD comes after that, when you sense an awakening, and not during.
That said: This, however, was an outstanding piece of advice that I hope Princessflare considers:
Oh, and no need to defend yourself, BTW, I wasn't accusing you of anything.
...Still an Outlier, I suppose! ;)