Thread: Going back in to the same LD...

I have been having lucid dreams for a long time. I get them in the early morning hours or during a nap. They are significant and realistic enough to leave me feeling as I did in the dream.
If I go back to sleep quick enough or at the right moment, I can go back into the same place I left off but the dream usually changes somewhat and it sometimes takes a different course.

Has anyone here encountered this?

Dream re-entry is a pretty widely-used technique, and also quite useful. I've only managed it on one night, it which I reentered a lucid dream twice, but others do it much more. I wish I could get the technique down better, because it seems to be an easy way to become lucid. Any tips?

I only go by my experience and what I have learned from them.

I have noticed a pattern of waking up around the same time every morning. If the dream was significant and I felt like I had to be there or felt the "need" to be there...I wake up feeling like I need to go back. If I close my eyes and picture myself back into the dream quickly enough and repeat that dream in my mind.
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night feeling like these dreams or nightmares are "thrown" at me.

It has only been a handful of times that I have done this.

I am more cautious about dreams now.

I can sometimes do dream re-entries. Just that the dreams aren't lucid ahwell, better luck next time >.<

This happened to me last night for one of the first times I can remember. It was in the morning after a long night's sleep. It was a lucid dream, a fun one. I was with this woman for a while, then I woke up. I lay in bed with my eyes closed. I was replaying parts of the dream in my head. Then I was visualizing the woman, but it wasn't a scene from the dream, just an image of her from my imagination. I was awake with my eyes still closed, looking at her, then she started to move around. As a test I said "this is a dream" and felt silly since I believed I was awake. Then this scene directly transitioned into a lucid dream I was back inside of. So I had the second lucid dream. I woke up again, went through the same process and had a third lucid dream. After waking up from the third, my phone rang and I felt too awake by then to fall back asleep again. That was an interesting new dream experience.

I can do this on a somewhat regular basis . A while back this method granted me 2+lucid dreams a night... I even complied a tutorial about it.

Right now I'm very lazy and usually if I attempt reentry I give up very soon... still I can reenter some LDs and dreams about a particular classroom..

Originally posted by CJ
I have been having lucid dreams for a long time. I get them in the early morning hours or during a nap. They are significant and realistic enough to leave me feeling as I did in the dream.
If I go back to sleep quick enough or at the right moment, I can go back into the same place I left off but the dream usually changes somewhat and it sometimes takes a different course. *

Has anyone here encountered this?

I began a thread just like this, like a week ago and nobody really responded much, well this happens to me alot and in the thread im asking if there is some kind of tutorial I can follow to manage to do this because when I do it I normally dont do it completely willing.

Well anyways, here it is:

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic....p=206447#206447

For those looking for a tutorial, here it is. Dream Re-entry Tutorial.
Right in the handy DV tutorials section. Imagine that...