From Waking to Lucid Dream

[Callista]

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?

[clockworkoranges16]

I had a similar experience the other day, and according to Seeker, this sounds like a WILD. Apparently the weird crap is not a requirement of a WILD. So will it happen again, probably. The reason it probably happened so well is that you were absolutely unfocused on having a WILD. The irony of them is that they happen more frequently if you aren't stressing about them. Remember all of the conditions you were in when you fell asleep and duplicate it next time. You may have just gotten lucky, but who knows, you could become proficient at WILDing

[Shineenigma]

Actually, I have done this myself recently and I have converted it into my own easy method. After I have woken, I focus on a place that I know well or a route to somewhere that I know well (the route not the place) and I imagine everything about the place. Scenery objects, my clothes, people, and I do stuff, not moving my body. You can shift all of you awarness out of your body and into your environment in a couple of minuets. Then you are lucid. Very easy, very little effort and very effective. I have used this twice and it has produce great results each time.

[samf]

this morning, I was trying the MP3 thing hoping it may work better in the morning. and I noticed as everythign slowly became black around me that I was waking up into the dream world. But the mp3 managed to ruin that....

[sss3d]

wow that's pretty cool! You are so lucky. from waking straight to dream state.. lol I'm just curious, Do you feel tired after that?

[wombing]

ditto what clockworkorange said. i'd definitely label this a WILD. i experience sleep paralysis, wierd sounds and lights, and all that typical "WILD" stuff quite often, yet only rarely shift my consciousness from my physical body, and never into a fully formed dream environement. the one fully successful WILD i had i wasn't even trying to have one. it was very similar to yours. i noticed that dream imagery was starting to form while i was still falling asleep. eventually it morphed into a restaurant scene, and i was sitting at a stool. i simply got up and i was in a LD. IMO it would be a mistake to think you need all that extra shit in order to have WILD's. that's all it is-extra shit. if you can enter a lucid without it, all the better. and i suspect intense sleep paralysis, voices and sounds, etc are more common when one is trying too hard. oh, and i'm definitely going to try intensifying colour in my next lucid good idea.

[TravisE]

I think I do this on occasion in the mornings. I'll wake up, usually from a dream, and then try to go back to sleep after taking notes about it. Sometimes I'll be suddenly be in a dream for a few seconds and not realize it until it's over or almost over. It's surprising sometimes because it doesn't always feel like I was about to fall asleep. I've never had any strange visualizations or extremely weird sensations. Example: This morning, I had my eyes closed trying to go back to sleep and the next thing I remember, I was lying in the same position with my eyes open looking at a piece of paper with a sentence printed on it, but I was still hearing what was going on around me in real life. Then I heard an odd, very brief sound that sounded like interference on a radio station, and thought that was kind of weird. Then I suddenly realized I was asleep, and I was lying back in bed with my eyes closed, but it felt like I was close to sleep paralysis. But it went away and I was fully awake. Then there was one time where I sort of regained conciousness while I was still partly asleep and entered a dream directly from a sleep paralysis state by trying to move anyway. Usually, though, I won't actually dream while falling asleep but my mind will just wander on its own accord and daydream about situations that tend to be dreamlike in nature. Occasionally I'll imagine (and almost dream, as it can be quite vivid) of myself doing something and then accidentally making a really bad mistake, then I'll suddenly realize it's just my imagination and decide to make it so that I didn't actually make the mistake after all.