Quote Originally Posted by Occipitalred View Post
I don't think you are an outlier on this at all Sageous. A DEILD is a DILD really.

For our visualization talk, we did talk about waking, WILD, and dream visualization so it might have made our understanding of DEILD ambiguous so I will clarify:

Between my last dream and fully waking, there is sometimes an ambiguous period where I think I am awake and start recalling my dreams. But, I'm really still dreaming... but it's just my thoughts. There are no visuals. A proof of this is in my example from Sunday, when I pulled an hair from my mouth's. The pain lasted past my dream to a period where I thought I was awake. In that moment, there was nothing except the delusion that I was awake and a curiosity as to how such a pain could follow me into my waking experience. No visuals, no eyes open, no body, except for my mouth and a pointed pain. My consciousness at this point is continuous with the consciousness that will wake up. There is no break. It's like the opposite of a WILD: a DIA (Dream-induced Awakening ) This is why I am willing to call this DILD a DEILD. I'm still in a dream, but on the threshold. My mind is awake but my body is still not. My mind feels so "waking up"-awake I always assume I am already waking.

I guess many people are more used to the false-awakening scenario of waking up in their bedroom. But, I false-wake in my waking mind. And I recall my dreams. My more traditional false-awakening dreams are about me writing down dreams or telling people "How funny, I just dreamed of you."

So to clarify: when I talk about recalling dreams in the context of DEILD, I don't mean recalling dreams while awake. I mean recalling dreams while dreaming. Because my mind is waking up, exiting the dream, and that's what I naturally do then.

The imagining-visualization technique is no more than a dream-control technique. The anchor, a dream stabilization technique. These techniques are just labels on in-dream behaviors.

EDIT: Princessflare, don't try do DEILD. Just intend to DILD. If you recognize you are dreaming as you are dream-exiting, then lucid dream then. If you just wake up, without being aware of the dream exit, just forget it. DILD and WILD. You can't plan a DEILD past recognizing that moment as it happens. There's no point to focus on that. For myself, it is recurrent enough for myself to think I am already awake when I am still waking up so it makes sense for me to focus on recognizing that moment as an opportunity to lucid dream. Keep DILDing until you can recognize that moment.
But your case is a particularly rare one(I might be wrong, please don't come at me lol), you also have an in between state, and I guess most people don't.
And most DEILD tutorials talk about, attempting in the first few seconds of WAKING UP from the dream. So I'm just mad confused here now. I hope Sageous or Sivason or Tiktaalik or IndigoRose could clear this confusion.

Thanks!!!