mistake?

[Krippe]

OK, i dont know if this was a dream, but it started when i was still awake (VERY TIRED) and i thought bout different stuff and then i thought about talking with my best friend (for some reason...) then i kinda saw how the picture of it became clearer and the words to, it started to feel real, so i thought "holy shit im gonna have a LD!" and i saw the picture fade away and i was back in my normal state... i was awake the whole time (i think). but could it been the beginning of a dream?

[Ev]

I've experienced jumping directly into picture. If it changes without your effort (especially numbers!), then you may be sure you are about 1 min away from entering LD...

[Krippe]

DAMN IT!! I BLEW IT!!

[Alric]

If you are awake enough to think your going into a ld then you might have. If you where just thinking of random things though, then it might of just been a normal dream then when you thought about it you woke up.

[Umbrasquall]

I think I had that experience once or twice. But I don't think it was a dream. I later reconsidered and it seemed more like my imagination picturing something that was just more vivid than usual. Maybe it does have something to do with tireness.

[dingleberry12286]

i have had an experiance with that once, i think. i was WILDing and i started to do some math, and the numbers changed, but unfortunatle i fell asleep.

[Ev]

I've noticed that if I try WILD and just lay there doing nothing, looking behind my eyelids and expecting something, NOTHING happens. I feel some kind of unset of dream paralysis, but it takes so damn long... Instead I tried just go along with my thoughts. Shape them in the beginning. Start them. Then let them fly by themselves and soon you (at least I do) will notice amazing things... Including lucid subdreams and daydreams... Pictures change by themselves. Regardless of how absurd they are, dont intervene, soon they will make sense... At least I feel my attention shift to images and I kinda "enter" them... It's still pretty raw method, I dont know If I'm doing something wrong. Maybe something can be added, something removed...

[Erf]

I commonly have this experience when I'm tired, and relax to go asleep, but my thoughts just roam around and they start to take on the form of a dream (of course I don't realize this untill I pull out of it). My only difference is its only thoughts, I don't see images, but it still feels like a dream.

[Truthbearer]

Maybe the fact that you got excited about possibly entering and LD that made you snap out... It has happened to me many times now...

[Alaurast78]

Originally posted by Krippe OK, i dont know if this was a dream, but it started when i was still awake (VERY TIRED) and i thought bout different stuff and then i thought about talking with my best friend (for some reason...) then i kinda saw how the picture of it became clearer and the words to, it started to feel real, so i thought \"holy shit im gonna have a LD!\" and i saw the picture fade away and i was back in my normal state... i was awake the whole time (i think). but could it been the beginning of a dream? * * * I had this experience before. Usually my waking dreams or daydreams are not very vivid but this one was. I believe I would also have gone into dream state if I had just been left alone a little longer. I had the help of soothing music to form the images in my head. It was very fun. I have yet to recreate this but then again I have not tried to get so fully enveloped in a daydream. Just let it flow the next time... and let the dream state take you up up and away hehe!!!