Turning hypnogogic imagery into LD

O.K, last night I had a really bad and fitful night's sleep. The silver lining was, though, that with many interruptions and night-time disturbances I was able to try WBTB (or something similar) quite a few times :)

The result was that I had a lot of time with some great (and often quite beautiful or surprisingly clear) hypnogogic patterns/images. It seems that since practicing LDing I've had more and better pre-sleep imagery like this (another cool effect from greater dream awareness). A few times these patterns seemed to bleed into full dreams, and on a couple of these occasions I was lucid. The downside was that even though I was lucid I seemed weak and unable to control much, and that these dreams were so unstable that they lasted only a very short time (dreamlets?) before I woke again. I suspect this was because of the bad night I was having and how tired and stressed I was.

Oh well, at least I've learned that a) greater dream awareness enhances hypnogogic imagery, and b) that pre-sleep hypno stuff can be turned into LDs.

All I need now is a decent night's rest with unbroken sleep! :)

I think those HH, when they take of on their own are called "dreamlets". Short movies/dreams, that you have not entered.

It's normal to have first lucids short. You can try and stabilize the dream, simply by engaging your senses. Smell the air, rub/clap your hands, stomp your feet, talk/sing/, lick something, touch something your body/ground/any nearby object.

HH can indeed be turned into LD. HH means, that you are getting near REM, so you must have had some sleep before that. Good luck with your experiments:alien:

Thanks for the encouragement Gab :) What you say makes sense.