Near REM stage?

Ok, I got like zero responses the last few times I tried making posts, so I tried just reading and going at this on my own. I personally use dreams as a way to relieve stress... hopefully being able to become lucid will allow me a little more freedom in some dreams or start regular dreaming more, which would be nice.


So, the other night I was going to try to WILD, but read that you cannot WILD unless you're in the REM stage or near it or something. Well, I went to bed, laid down on my back and started the whole relaxing process. I got to the point where it felt like my hands and feet were not there, and like my wrists and ankles were being tied to the bed. It got all the way up to where it felt like my entire arms and legs were not there before I realized that my eyes were mostly closed. I waited like this, thrusting out any surface thoughts that popped up (mostly a few words in the lyrics to a song, and I started counting breaths when it popped up) and this worked for the most part. I didn't recall anything until a call came in... about two hours later. I didn't feel like I fell asleep, but the call startled me and I was up. Either way, I didn't move and let the call go to voicemail. I laid back down and started again. I think I fell asleep this time, but I had a dream about the exact thing I was telling myself I was going to dream about. The dream wasn't lucid because I was mostly just following it like watching a movie screen, but here's the question. I woke up at some point in the night. I didn't get up, but I thought about the dream and wanted to continue it... as soon as I fell asleep I started having the exact same dream I was just having, but it continued and didn't just repeat. I did this around three times I think, maybe four or five.

My question is, I had the ability to go back to sleep and dream exactly what I was wanting to dream, exactly how I was wanting to dream it. Did the call wake me up during REM or near it (because it was like a couple hours in I think) and then I was waking up, going to sleep, and dreaming what I wanted to.



It would be really helpful to know if I did anything that could help me in the future, or if this was just random and I was dreaming exactly what I wanted by coincidence...

i think its luck base to return to a dream you were having, ive done this a few times and ive failed many a times. Would be realy cool if there was a method though

r u sure it was the exact same dream or just the same setting and people?

No, you missed the point... it wasn't the exact same dream in the sense that not everything happened the same, but it was the exact same dream in that as soon as one cut off, the next one picked up essentially right where the previous one left off... and I know that I woke up between all of them because I checked my clock, everything was normal, and my roommate was talking/snoring rather loud like usual... he rolled over, I went back to sleep, I was thinking about the dream of course, and it picked up right where it left off.

So, nobody has any real ideas?... Or is it that I'm saying something a little different than normal and it's hard to understand what I mean?

I'd really like to work at getting lucid dreams, but to be perfectly honest it feels like I'm learning a new language in a room by myself. Can nobody really provide feedback on this? Is this really not near the REM stage or is it perhaps close? Is there any resemblance to any technique used that I might be able to try this again with?

This post went just like my last couple ones did, they got some views and yet nobody posted a word save for maybe one person... and so far that person said it was pure luck, but (no offense to them) I would really like a solid feedback from someone that could tell me anything other than "yes" or "no" without any other form of thoughts...

Apologies if that sounded a bit rash, but I was really hoping to be able to learn more here, and so far I've failed to do so due to a lack of understanding, which I have no way of coming to understand on my own. Perhaps I posted in the wrong forum? I believe this is the correct one, helping with attaining lucidity? Please correct me if I'm wrong and the answer is so simple as "Go to this forum"...

Awesome...

you near, i guess.