Thread: Deeper than REM?

Sivason, the dream about replaying the content of the game over and over. That's some of what I experience a lot, and it's really uncomfortable. Sometimes when I stop it, there is a void with randomly floating thoughts and images floating by. What's really frustrating is that I feel as though I can't escape from those kinds of dreams. Normally I can end a dream whenever I want but those ones, it's like I can stop or at least quell the madness but I am still stuck there, silently watching.

I've stopped trying to maintain lucidity into these states of dreaming because it is so uncomfortable, but it feels intuitively like there is some kind of secret or power in that state. And I really want to figure it out.

Is there a state that is even deeper than the less exotic, less vivid, and much more like visual flashbacks of daily residue state, where we experience memory consolidation?

What kind of adventures could you have in nREM? Are you talking about edgar cayce stuff, like with your first dream example?

edit: Stage 4 sleep! can we maintain awareness during that?