Thread: Dreams in earlier stages of sleep

As we all know most of the dreams we remember occur in the last cycle of sleep, so we wonder what on Earth's going on beforehand? I'd really like to hear from someone who has had a lucid in these earlier stages since hopefully they would have woken up and remembered but maybe you can remember normal dreams anyway. My hypothesis is that I think dream are a hell of a lot stranger earlier in the night. The next bit might seem to be about OBEs but don't worry I'm not straying from the topic:

I am especially interested because in April I had a series of "OBEs" spurred by my mere interest in them. I think of them just as lucid dreams now, but the ones I had in the early morning were perfectly ordinary and the ones I had in the middle of the night were loads stranger. These of course are really the only dreams I can remember from the middle of the night because I woke from them. I just wanted to check with everyone else because I'm on the verge of proving OBEs complete nonsense .

So if you can remember any dreams you had from the middle of the night (or just earlier stages of sleep), were they any stranger than ones you would have later on? I'm interested in the following features particularly:

• Sudden blindness
  Sourceless voices
  Wind sensations or other tactile/sensual distortions
  Nonsensical plot or events
  Increased dream and character randomness
  OBEs and vibrations if you happen to have experienced them (earlier stages?)

Don't be put off this isn't primarily about OBEs, they are just my only experience of early dreams. Any experiences you can share with me will be much appreciated ?