Mini Dream Fragments?

[Cryptic Cane]

Alright, this happens to me every once and a while when I am very tired. I close my eyes, and wait to fall asleep, but begin to have a very short, very vivid dream. Usually it is something very random and unpleasant. For instance, one time I was "dreaming" that I was riding a very tall bike. The bike started to wobble, and I fell off the bike, and plunged toward the ground below. Right before I smacked on the ground I abruptly woke up. I know for a fact that the dream lasted a very small amount of time, most likely even a couple seconds because I had looked at the clock before I closed my eyes and I looked at it after I woke up from the little dream, and about 7 minutes had passed. The confusing thing about it is that the REM stage is the last stage in the cycle, so it is unlikely that I went through the whole cycle in that short duration of time. I hadnt slept for the whole day until that point so it wasnt a WTBT sort of thing. Is this a normal occurence?

[SantaDreamsToo]

yeah iv had these, usually when im very tired though, I guess when you get tired enough your mind goes directly into REM since it thinks that you wont be able to get iunto it again anytime soon

[Barbizzle]

Hey there! I have those also. Last night mine were in the futre and i was at my mothers funeral. It was very unplesent, but i foreced ti to chaneg into something positive. I just picture then funeral celbration and what i woudl say beofre the party, and it made me feel better. Just try to make you bad mini dreams beocme good in some way. It always works for me. And also, dreaming takes place in every stage of the sleep cycle, but they are more lilely more vivid and commen in REM stages.

[nina]

Yeah Barbizzle is right. These mini dreams are definitely during a much lighter sleep which is why I think we can awake so abruptly from them...like JERK awake. Anyways...it's actually alot easier to become lucid during this lighter stage of sleep...like in the morning when you can sleep in and you will wake up and go back to bed a few times and experience alot of mini dreams...I think that is PRIME LDing time.