Lucid Dreaming While Awake.

[Tebok]

There are times when I will wake up during a dream, but I will keep my eyes closed. This seems to allow the dream to continue. I do not know if I am nodding off back to sleep or what, but I know if I open my eyes, it will be over. Anyhow, I found this to be the easiest way to have Lucid dreams because you are fully aware that you are dreaming and only to have to open your eyes to end it. Anyone else experiance this?

[mely]

yes I have definetly experienced this. It is actually quite a sweet feeling, especially if I have been enjoying the dream experience. It's like you have been given a temporary repreive from reality.

[LucidDreamGod]

Well you arn't really awake once you go back in the dream because techniqly your body needs to be asleep for you to dream, or possibly in a heavey trance, though I'm pretty sure it was a DEILD and yeah I do it alot of the time, you can make them happen even faster with tactile sensations, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for you, basicly all deild means is you wake up, don't move, and well your mind is still awake you slip back into the dream before your body has a chance to fully unparalyse. Some people may experience this because if you wake up and don't move for a long time, thus alowing your mind to wake up alittle and try to move then your in sleep paralysis, thats how most people get sleep paralysis.

[Elite]

I usually open my eyes out of habit =[

[mely]

wake up, don't move, and well your mind is still awake you slip back into the dream before your body has a chance to fully unparalyse Yes, exactly. I find I can dip in and out of the dream sometimes for a considerable time. On a good day I can even enter dream out of sequence, and go back to bits I want to see again, or go further and find out what happens next.

[Comoquiendice]

There are times when I will wake up during a dream, but I will keep my eyes closed. This seems to allow the dream to continue. I do not know if I am nodding off back to sleep or what, but I know if I open my eyes, it will be over. Anyhow, I found this to be the easiest way to have Lucid dreams because you are fully aware that you are dreaming and only to have to open your eyes to end it. Anyone else experiance this? Wow. I didn't know this counted as "lucid." I had always thought of this as daydreaming because it was so ..."light" is how i'd describe it. it just had this lightness to it that other dreams didn't have. Sometimes i'll go from these into an actual dream (by my standards) or a regular lucid, but i never really considered this sort of in the middle dream space (where i'm conscious and know i'm in it) to be a real lucid. hmmmm that's kind of cool.

[Dinomut]

Never happened to me. I think of those as just spacing out because you can't move your body in the dream, it's just that you're visualizing something on your mind like, in this case, your recent dream.

[NeAvO]

I think I have experienced this but not sure. It's usually just as I wake up or are getting awake, as if the dream loses it's vividness gradually.

[Niddiboy]

i always thought of it as day dreaming as well because im so awake in the dream... interesting xD

[Ostego]

This used to happen to me when I was younger. It still does now, but it's slightly different. When I close my eyes, I don't see the dream I was having, but only a grey blur. And the longer I keep my eyes open, the more it will blur and fade away. It's a weird feeling.

[Firestem4]

This happens to me a lot. it mostly happens when i'm awoken prematurely and i don't do anything. Its sort of a twilight between REM and sleep IMO. The itneresting thing for me is i'm totally aware of my surroundings: the fact im in my bed, and I can hear whats going on outside but my lucid dream (or a regular dream) still continues. Ive even awoken completely and gone back to sleep and had a similiar thing happen to me the next time, and usually a continuation of my last dream.

[Niddiboy]

happened to me this morning again (godzilla eating my mates but it was funny) and i continued the dream, but i knew i was "awake" if i can use that word... it just seems to me that you really are just imagining your dream after you wake up... sure ur still very tired and the effects of sleep may not have fully worn off, but even though i controlled my dream this morning, i dont think (in my own novice opinion) it can be classed as lucid dreaming or am i severly wrong?

[spyx626]

OMG, this happened to me like this very morning. I remember having a dream about watching TV then I woke up, but I was tired so I wanted to go back to sleep and once I tried I was still somewhat awake and I managed to still have a like 2 min dream, and then woke up and then went back to sleep and kept the dream going. It felt like 2 mins. but I actually spent like 2 hours having those small "2 min." dreams in which I knew I was dreaming, kinda... This happens to me often.

[Metaphyz1k]

Yes, exactly. I find I can dip in and out of the dream sometimes for a considerable time. On a good day I can even enter dream out of sequence, and go back to bits I want to see again, or go further and find out what happens next. Talk about dream control!

[skunk]

yeah, this happens to me when someone comes into my room while i'm sleeping and it wakes me up. Basically what happens is I can see them, and usually have a third person view of it but I cant ever see myself. Like i'm floating at the top of the room. weird..