Thread: what does transitioning into a dream feel like?

Well, you'll be completely paralyzed when the transition occurs. There is this shift that's hard to explain, but you'll know when it happens. Usually you will automatically appear in the dream, but it's possible that your eyes will still be closed. I recommend trying to see through your eyelids rather than trying to force them open.

well, during DEILDs for me, I usually just imagine the room exactly as it is excpet with one difference, usually someone talking to me that isn't really there, then when I start to really 'hear' them, i know the dream has started. There isn't really a distinct transition for me, except for when i open my eyes, knowing that it's a dream, and seeing the person there talking to me.

I don't know whether this 'making yourself hear a voice, then waiting until you really can "hear" it' is a real, recognised technique but i figured it out and it works for myself! maybe you should try it and tell me how it is for you?

I feel no transition. I'm just suddenly in a dream, the first thought being 'Whaaaaaaaaaaaatttttt?!!!!!?'

So when your imagining someone talking to you, do you imagine what there saying or just picture them in the room.

I usually imagine myself walking outside my house at night, but it has had different outcomes. One time the dream started with me actually walking outside my house. Another time I was kinda dragged INTO my house, looking out a window and everything like started spinning and then settled down, then I had a FA but I knew I was dreaming.

Originally Posted by skendry

So when your imagining someone talking to you, do you imagine what there saying or just picture them in the room.

Well, i'm not sure, usually when I wake up just after a dream i'm in a half dream-like state anyway, so the most important thing is that you are very familiar with the sound of their voice. I don't usually control what they say or pay attention to what I imagine they're saying, it's more to do with making it sound real in my head.

Originally Posted by SeeFour

Well, i'm not sure, usually when I wake up just after a dream i'm in a half dream-like state anyway, so the most important thing is that you are very familiar with the sound of their voice. I don't usually control what they say or pay attention to what I imagine they're saying, it's more to do with making it sound real in my head.

oh ok then thanks alot

I've felt a variety of things. Sometimes it has felt like falling. Sometimes it has felt like I was 'shrinking' inside myself. Sometimes I get the feeling that I am hearing/feeling an intense lowish frequency vibration that gets 'louder' until it crescendos and then abruptly stops. Once it stops I'm in a total black silence and I know the transition is complete. Sometimes though, I feel nothing at all and these are obviously the hardest to recognize that I am actually dreaming.

Originally Posted by SeeFour

well, during DEILDs for me, I usually just imagine the room exactly as it is excpet with one difference, usually someone talking to me that isn't really there, then when I start to really 'hear' them, i know the dream has started. There isn't really a distinct transition for me, except for when i open my eyes, knowing that it's a dream, and seeing the person there talking to me.

I don't know whether this 'making yourself hear a voice, then waiting until you really can "hear" it' is a real, recognised technique but i figured it out and it works for myself! maybe you should try it and tell me how it is for you?

i tried it last night, but the only thing is i moved when i woke up so i dont think it worked because of that. but i imagined someones voice i know, and in a few seconds i acually heard them rambling on about something for like 5 minutes. But then my attention went into my real life bedroom and the talking just stopped and i heard nothing. I didnt open my eyes during the talking maybe i should of.

For me it is just a matter of:

1. Close eyes
2. Darkness
3. Faint forms of light moving in my field of vision
4. The light grows stronger and the forms more solid
5. In a dream

As far as what it FEELS like, to me it is just a sense that my body is getting farther away and my consciousness is crystallizing apart from it. It also kind of feels warm and safe to me, as I move from the waking to dream state.

One thing I am trying to become better at is remaining conscious through those stages so that it just becomes habit to stay awake through them. I've found that my internal dialogue (chattering to myself) is the key to this. I meditate a lot and can basically turn my internal dialogue off for hours if I want but I've found doing so is not beneficial to me remaining lucid. One characteristic of ALL of my lucid dreams is that my inner dialogue is present.

I've not had one lucid dream where I was not talking to myself and verbally describing the experience as it happened.

So I basically use this form of talking to myself mentally as I progress through the transitions into dream.

I have very little control over my dreams and my personal dialog is always mumbling always every one is mumbling. Nothing could ever be understood. But now I can imagine actually dreaming about conversations. It's weird.

I've caught myself falling asleep into a dream, it's more rare than being caught in SP awakening from one. You're caught up in a whilrwind like sensation with wooshing, and you fall into your dream. Sometimes it's pretty sudden, you may see a TV window with your dream in it and your watching and you become a character and it becomes your dream, that has happened to me a few times, or you'll just resume your previous dream, picking up with the next chapter.

Originally Posted by hypnocella

I've caught myself falling asleep into a dream, it's more rare than being caught in SP awakening from one. You're caught up in a whilrwind like sensation with wooshing, and you fall into your dream. Sometimes it's pretty sudden, you may see a TV window with your dream in it and your watching and you become a character and it becomes your dream, that has happened to me a few times, or you'll just resume your previous dream, picking up with the next chapter.

Yep, that exactly. Awesome feeling.