This happened to me last night...

I went to sleep about two hours later than I usually do; so I was very tired and fell asleep almost immediately, and had two lucids that night. Normal enough.

The interesting thing was that, while I felt myself falling asleep, I also saw dream imagery already beginning to form. I was aware of myself lying in bed, and aware of a shadowy dream world beginning to form, at the same time. As I lost awareness of my real-world body, the dream world began to become more detailed and distinct, and I was able to move around in it.
The quality of the dream itself was decent; I was thinking relatively well, remembered a dream task and succeeded, then failed at a couple of others. Control wasn't too good; but that's normal with the stuff I've been trying lately (creating an environment), which is difficult for me. (By the way, if you take time to notice colors in a dream world, they become brighter, sometimes more vivid than what you could get in real life... or at least they do for me... cool huh?)

Usually, my lucid dreams are at the end of a night...this one was at the beginning. Unfortunately, with a night of sleep between it and morning, I recall the dream only about as well as the average non-lucid dream. Still, it's an interesting phenomenon.

I've never been successful at doing WILDs, and from what I experienced last night compared to the descriptions, this wasn't a a WILD at all--nothing weird, no sleep paralysis (though I didn't attempt to move my waking body; I wanted to go to sleep rather badly), no funny lights or anything. I don't use any induction techniques at all, normally, since I'm a natural thanks to DNA or something. I just, for some reason, didn't lose consciousness between going to sleep and dreaming.

Ever happened to you?

Can I get it to happen again?